Our Team

When we arrived here in Honduras almost one month ago, we joined a team. That may not seem important to you, but it is extremely important to us. From day one, we have had friends, people we can trust, help in learning a new city, and experienced missionaries to give us advice when we need it. Since I talk a lot about our teammates on this blog, I thought it may help to 'introduce' them to you.

Kate, John, Kathy, Shannon, Erin, Madison, Mike, Ashley & I
Bekah, Evan, Josiah, Abi

The Pettengills - Mike, Erin, and Madison Pettengill started this team here in La Ceiba about 3.5 years ago. Mike is the team leader and Erin is a nurse. They work mostly in a community called Armenia Bonito.

The Clows - John, Kathy, Abi, Bekah, Josiah and Evan have been in La Ceiba since the spring of 2010. John is in charge of all the construction projects and Kathy heads up the scholarship program. They both do a ton of work with the short-term teams that come in the summer.

Shannon Innes - Shannon has been here since May of last year. She is in the process of starting a home for young single moms.

Kate DeFuniak - Kate arrived here only a month or so before we did. She is working with street children and will be starting a drop-in center for them.

We are so glad that we are working with a team and that we will get to know each of these people a lot over the coming months and years! If you would like more information about them, their blogs are on the side of this page in the 'Friends Blogs' section.

We have an address!

Today I ran a few errands with our team leader Mike (3 guys on the team and 2 are named Mike...). One of them was to check out the Post Office. He had to get some mail and pay for some stuff and I got to buy a post office box! So, we can now receive mail (hint hint).

From what our team has told us, mail takes about 2 weeks to get here from in the US and it doesn't really matter what way it is shipped. In other words, don't pay extra shipping to get it here faster, because it will not get here faster. Hey, we live in Honduras and at least it gets here.

So, for those of you who want to send us something here is our new address:

Michael Troxell
PO Box 916
La Ceiba, Atlantida
Honduras
Central America

As a note, on our team I am generally referred to as Trox and our team leader, Mike Pettengill, is referred to as Mike. I had this 'problem' with the name Mike in 5th grade too, there were 5 Mikes out of about 25 kids.