Roatan Campbells' Connection

Hello to our family and friends!                                                        December 2023   Is it just me, or have you noticed too? It seems Christmas preparations have started so much earlier this year. Our neighbour down the road had his swinging Christmas-bell light display ding-donging outside his house in mid-November. Radio stations started their "all Christmas songs" formats weeks ago. The delivery company vans furiously flash up and down the road. It's like we want to wrap up the preparations early maybe so we can have a long time to savor the fun.     That gets me to thinking..... those extra minutes we have now could be put to good use. We have time to  🎶 Go Tell It On The Mountain 🎶 and Go Tell The Good News ev’rywhere-ere-ere-ere.   We have time to talk to that neighbour with the bell and ...

    Dinner out with Chris and Laura. A few weeks ago, we were asked to provide a short introduction to ourselves and the work we do. I realized that what we had provided 4 years ago in this blog needed a bit of an update. So now, here we are - 2023.  We are delighted to be able to share with you a bit of how we serve in Roatan, Honduras. We call our blog Roatan Campbells’ Connection , and that’s what we do – we connect our resources with people who are needing assistance whether monetary, physical, or spiritual and try to lovingly help. We return to Roatan two or three times per year to check in on the people we serve. When we are home here in Canada, we can communicate through social media and provide messages of encouragement and even send funds if an emergency arises. We are most proud of the students we have watched from preteen years through to adulthood. We have helped them enroll in private bilingual schools so that they have been able to make choices when they g...

🌞Roatan is an island about 65 km off the east coast of Honduras, Central America. We travel from Toronto via direct flights (5 hours, winter months) or international through connections in the US the remainder of the year. The island can also be accessed from the Mainland by air or a 90 minute ferry jaunt. 🌞A surprising fact for Canadians is that it is 3,110 km from Toronto to Roatan. It is 4,200 km from Toronto to Vancouver, BC. 🌞Roatan is approximately 80 km long and less than 8 km across at its widest. You can see water to the North and South at the same time along some stretches of the road. About roads - there is one main paved-mostly road that runs East-West across the island. The road makes a loop from North to South in the western end, but when you go East? You drive to the end and turn around and come back. There are many little roads branching off the main road. Most little roads go up, up then down, down and require careful driving in rainy season. 🌞 Roatan is a tropical...

It's a bit of a warm one this afternoon, so we are not out and about. Instead, one of us is vegging on the couch and one of us is at a table with this computer and a little desk fan providing a bit of artificial breeze. Not too bad really. And this makes the perfect opportunity to share a collection of photos showing a bit of what we've been doing. We are at the halfway point in our time here. So far we have been able to settle into our new home-away-from-home, develop and re-establish some routines, and catch up with lots of people. We are staying in a new apartment building only a few steps down from where we started out in our first years. Much has changed on this little street and the changes are good. In this location we are able to walk to see many of the people we haven't seen for several months. We have a nearby grocery store, vegetable stand, and when we need to go further the buses are nearby. Our Place - Alpha's Place Friends in Need  Maria has a new propane ...

  July 1, 2023  Happy Canada Day 2023! Good morning! Are you sitting out on your deck, coffee in hand, just relaxing - just being? Think what a privilege it is to be able to do that in our “home and native land.” We have choices in this country. We can choose where we will live and work. We can choose to vote and have a choice when we come to the ballot box. We can choose our church, our school, and our next vacation destination. Our grocery stores are full. Our country is rich in resources. It is varied in beauty. We have so much to celebrate! Larry and I are off again for a three-week trip to Roatan, Honduras soon. It is because of these trips that we can encourage you - it is a privilege to live in Canada! Whether you call Honduras a third-world country, a developing nation, or underdev...

Lourdes  - y lejos ella va! Laura  celebrando el primer  cumpleaños  de Kissinger. (* Por favor, perdone mis errores en la escritura en espanol. 😉) Porque es el Dia de las Madres queria crear una galería de fotos de mamás siendo mamás para honrar a estas mujeres enérgicas y trabajadoras. Que Dios los bendiga a todos con fuerza, paciencia y alegría cada día.  🌸 Because it is Mother's Day I wanted to create a photo gallery of moms being moms to honour these energetic, hardworking women. May God bless you all with strength, patience, and joy each day.  Feliz primer dia de las madres  Geyzi (con bebe Eythan Daniel), y Michell (con bebe Ian Noah.)  🌸 Happy first Mother's Day Geyzi and Michell . Mamas y sus hijos celebrando. 🎉🎉🎉 Maria con sus 7 hijos celebrando el cumpleanos numero 22 de su hija mayor, Jessi.  Jeanie  con Grace, Hannah y Alison en su cumpleanos. Arezzi  con 3 de sus 6 hijos en una reciente celebracion d...

We wanted to give you a chance to come join us - come on a tour of our island and the people we get to spend a little time with. Your Island Tour We are always amazed that there are so many little surprises awaiting us when we are out and about on this beautiful tropical island. Here is just a tiny snippet of what delights us. Where Are They Now? We are just so proud of the students we have spent time watching and coaching from the sidelines. Where are they now? Two are currently in the US working. Geyzi helps her man working on the family farm on the mainland and will soon be a mom.(no photo). Jacee, (see picture, top left), has recently graduated from highschool and is currently working in the new ROA Market in the day and is in his first term at university (Honduran online) studying business at night. Carlos, (top and bottom center), works at one of our favourite restaurants and has recently bought a four-wheeler to get back and forth to work. Oscar, (top right), just celebrated his...