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For six years during the 1980s, Bob and Gracie Ekblad (directors of Tierra Nueva) lived in Honduras, where their lives were forever changed. As they taught sustainable farming, preventative health, and led Bible studies among peasants, they discovered that people--regardless of income, age, or social class--need each other and God on a deeper level for transformation to occur.

In 1994, Bob and Gracie left Central America and established Tierra Nueva in Burlington, WA, bringing a ministry of hope and the good news of the gospel to migrant workers, jail inmates, and Latino residents of Skagit County.

Today, the work of Tierra Nueva Honduras continues under the leadership of 20 farmer-trainers and health care workers, who continue to visit and serve villages.

Tierra Nueva in Minas de Oro, Honduras, is about:

Sustainable agriculture to rebuild eroded, exhausted soil.

Preventative health education in regions with 1 doctor per 20,000

Nutrition & hygiene classes in regions where hunger & parasites kill.

Engaging in liberating Bible studies with people who think God is a punishing judge.

Training semi-literate peasants as community & spiritual leaders.

Organic-intensive vegetable gardening among under-nourished people.

Reforestation & terracing on deforested, steep land.

Land purchase & redistribution to landless & unemployed.

Education about immigration risks among people desperate enough to journey to North America with no money or papers.

Scholarships for young people otherwise shut out from pursuing an education.

For more photos from Tierra Nueva Honduras, click the photo gallery on the link at right.

click here to visit the Tierra Nueva Honduras project website, hosted by the North Suburban Mennonite Church.