Serve Teams in Tegucigalpa

Each year thousands of Hondurans come through the WGO Serve Team sites in Tegucigalpa. These teams serve some of the poorest people in Honduras in their own neighborhoods. Our services include providing medical, dental and optical care, installing water filters for clean drinking water, pouring concrete floors for families that live on dirt floors, painting homes and churches, food distribution, VBS, children’s ministry and evangelism. For many, this is the only access to medical care that they have. WGO’s goal through serve teams is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and make disciples through our partner Honduran churches. Each morning the team travels on a ministry bus to the church where they will serve. Our teams first meet the physical needs of the people, then use the opportunity that God provides in those moments to share the Gospel. WGO has developed relationships with more than 150 local Honduran churches. These churches partner with WGO by facilitating the ministry in their building for 2 days once a year.   

Most teams consist of 10 – 30 people who stay for one week. Some team members are medical professionals- physicians, dentists, optometrists, chiropractors, nurses, physician assistants and other trained medical personnel- although this is not a requirement. Most team members do not have any medical training, but serve as support people assisting in the different areas. WGO also has Honduran medical personnel on site working with the teams. In advance of their trip, team members are informed of the needed medications and supplies to bring.  

Team members stay in WGO’s Mission House in Tegucigalpa, constructed in 2009, that can house up to 80 team members. The staff offices of WGO are also located in the Mission House, or in Spanish, Casa de Esperanza (House of Hope). At the Mission House, kitchen staff will prepare and serve buffet-style meals for breakfast and dinner, and prepare lunches for teams to eat at the Serve Team site. Accommodations at the Mission House are clean with spacious common areas for dining, meetings, relaxing and fellowship. Sleeping arrangements are comfortable with bunk beds in the men’s and women’s bedrooms. Each bedroom can accommodate up to 16 people and each is adjoined to a bathroom with hot and cold water, showers and toilet facilities. 

Teams come year round. If you are signing up as an individual, WGO will assign you to a team on a week that you are wanting to serve. If you have a small group interested in serving, WGO will assign your small group to another small group mutually interested in the same available week.