Last week, I found myself in front of a white board with a dry erase marker in hand. This was the most at home I have felt on the entire race being in something very familiar. However, as I looked out the window I quickly realized I am on top of a mountain. As I look around the room, I see nine students. The nine students split equally among 5th, 6th, and 8th grade. These students all in one small cement block classroom. One student asked if they could go to their locker after class had already begun. I said, “yes, but hurry back we are about to begin.” The student got out of their seat and walked to a wire cubicle organizer in the rear of the classroom. I began to laugh as I realized what I had said must have sounded very funny to them.
Loyalty School is a small Christian based school started by a man named Roger Flores and his wife. Mr. Flores and his wife have a huge burden to not only educate the people of Honduras, but to change their entire way of thinking. In my short three-day week at this school, Mr. Flores and I had many chats and each one oozed with passion for the people of Honduras and the love of Jesus.
The school has some students who pay to attend. However, about half of the students are on scholarship. So, I wanted to know where the scholarship money came from, probably what you are thinking as well. Most everyone I have met so far on this trip that had anything to do with schools are a part of a sponsorship program in which people from the US sponsor kids to attend school. Therefore, I was expecting this response from him. This unsung hero did not have that response for me. He and his wife own a bakery and through this bakery, they scholarship the remainder of the students to the school. Not only do they do this, but they hold school supply drives for students who are in the neighborhood of the school but don’t even attend their school. They also donate bread from their bakery to other ministries that are working with kids. They see the need and they meet it.
Just when I thought they couldn’t possibly do anything else, Mr. Flores tells me that he recently felt like he was supposed to start a church. I asked if he was the pastor and he smirked and said “yes.” I told him he wears many hats. A term I am not sure he was familiar with. He proceeded to tell me that he knows God gave him much and he wants to do all he can with what God has given Him.
If you are an educator and you are reading this, I need your help. I really want to help this ministry by gathering textbooks for him to use with his students. This is a bilingual school so they use textbooks in English. The ones they have are very outdated and in extremely good condition. These kids know how to take care of a book! However, Mr. Flores said they are very expensive. I happen to know that in most American public schools textbooks are used for four-eight years before they are thrown out. Why not throw them out to the good cause of educating kids in another country? If you have any way to help me make that happen. Please contact me at [email protected]. I will not be back in the states until December so I can’t do the groundwork but could really use your help. You can also visit Loyalty School’s facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/LOYALTY-SCHOOL/144204782004
Thank you for reading about today’s Unsung Hero!
My classroom for the week! 
Felt so normal! 
The teachers and students ride to school together!
