Our Story
Ron and Shelley Jones are the original missionaries who started Hope for Honduras, Inc. and Asociación Humanitaria Esperanza para Honduras. They later adopted two sons from Honduras, Joseph and Oscar, who were only 12 and 4, respectively. Before serving in Honduras, Ron was a successful contractor and Shelley was an interior designer.
Originally, Ron and Shelley went up to “Mogote” every day to pass out food in the streets and provide basic medical care. 21 years later, they have the original Hope Center located in Colonia Nueva España that houses Administration, Education, a Clinic and Maintenance. The second Hope Center is in Colonia Jose Trinidad Cabañas, two and a half miles up the mountain, which houses the feeding in the streets program, Desarrollo Infantil (Child Development), another clinic and the program to help the community with spritual and emotional needs.
“The Lord made it clear that we were supposed to live our lives before them… that’s exactly what we did.”
— Ron and Shelley Jones, Founders
NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION
Hope for Honduras, Inc. was founded by Ron and Shelley Jones as a not-for-profit corporation in the state of Oklahoma in 1999. It has been a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation with the Internal Revenue Service since March 2002 under the Federal Identification Number 731574898. It functions as a humanitarian organization which raises funds for like organizations in the Central American country of Honduras.
Asociación Humanitaria Esperanza para Honduras is a not-for-profit humanitarian organization governed by Honduran statutes which was also founded by Ron and Shelley Jones. This organization (RTN 08019005008675) is responsible for the administration of the programs and events listed on this website. This organization is governed by a Board of Directors in Honduras of which Ron and Shelley Jones are Officers. No Honduran governmental support is accepted in order to fund these programs. All donations come through private donors in the United States and Honduras.
CORE VALUES
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More than anything else, we want to see people come to know the saving grace of Jesus Christ!
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As we strive to be above reproach in all that we say and do, we pray our integrity as Christ followers and as an organization is seen clearly!
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To be unclear is to be unkind. By creating organization within our organization, we believe everyone involved flourishes.
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God is never concerned with earning, but He is always concerned with effort. We strive to give God our very best attitude and effort as He gave us all things.
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As Jesus Christ himself gave us the example of ultimate sacrificial, servant leadership, we too believe that to exist as Christ is to live a life of service!
