Ministry
Eduardo and Hilda Monzón are fostering Church growth in the Diocese of Honduras. They provide pastoral leadership, support, motivation, training, Church planting, evangelism and Christian growth.

Eduardo is Canon Vicar at the Good Shepherd Cathedral. He helps the congregation at the Cathedral grow in membership, spiritual life and in a number of active ministries.

Eduardo is Canon on Mission and Evangelism of the Diocese. One of Eduardo’s strengths is church planting. The most recent Church he planted in the town of Progreso. They started three years ago, with no local members, just the support of one family who lend their home for services. Now, it became an active congregation; it fulfilled the requirements to be accepted in the Diocese as an organized mission. The Mission, named San Patricio, is now in the process of building its Temple. Eduardo is also working on planting other churches in the area.

Hilda's strengths are directing and teaching Sunday School, training teachers, and organizing women's groups. In the coming year, the Monzons want to organize a social ministry to help women, especially for single mothers.

They both help in the Cursillos on Christianity. Eduardo and is the Alpha International Advisor for Honduras, and a member of the Diocesan Alpha Committee. He Chairs the Deanery Committee on Evangelism, and the Diocesan Communications Committee. He is also Director/Editor of the Diocesan Newspaper, La Voz Anglicana, ‘the Anglican Voice'. He is co-founder and Spiritual Director of the Turno Movement. The Turno Weekends have proved valuable in several countries. Now they brought new life to the Cathedral and are bringing people to the Lord.

Call
Eduardo states very simply that God called him and Hilda to be missionaries. He was still unchurched at 17. One night he felt the need of a Church and asked God for a it. Just a few hours later, early next morning, a friend called inviting him to a retreat: A priest from his Church (Episcopal) had just arrived to Guatemala to start a mission in Spanish. Few months later he became the first Guatemalan Received and Confirmed in the Spanish Mission of the Episcopal Church. God then called him to the Ordained Ministry and later, to become a missionary.

He has been ordained thirty-four years. He and Hilda have been married thirty three years and have devoted twenty one years to missionary ministry. They are the SAMS missionaries who has been longest in the field.

Prayer Challenges
The main needs Eduardo and Hilda have are financial. They need greater regular support for their ministries from committed people and churches so that they can focus all of their energies on helping this ministry to grow and thrive.