Honduras An Unfinished Medical Center Built to Serve

Taulabé, Honduras | 2014 and Beyond

An unfinished medical center represents more than an incomplete construction project.

It represents rooms that cannot yet welcome patients, spaces that cannot house medical teams and resources that cannot yet reach the people who need them.

In 2014, Finish the Work partnered with the Christian Community in Honduras Medical Center in Taulabé to help complete a facility that had been under construction since 2005.

Completing the CCH Medical Center

The medical center was the result of years of work involving multiple organizations and partnerships.

Pastor Israel Gonzalez and his wife, Dr. Floripe Gonzalez, had been called to serve following relief efforts after Hurricane Mitch in 1998. They left professional positions and a more comfortable life in San Pedro Sula to pursue ministry among communities with limited access to quality healthcare.

Finish the Work joined that larger effort in 2014.

Teams helped complete the second floor of the medical facility, including a kitchen, cafeteria, eight dorm rooms for visiting medical teams and storage space for medical supplies and equipment.

The approximately 10,000-square-foot facility was designed to help provide medical treatment and ministry to communities in the surrounding mountain region.

Finishing Construction So Ministry Can Continue

This is why Finish the Work exists.

The organization does not measure a project's value simply by the amount of construction completed.

The real question is: What becomes possible when the building is finished?

At the medical center, finished spaces could support visiting medical teams, provide needed storage and create infrastructure for ongoing healthcare and ministry.

Construction became a tool for service.

A Continuing Relationship With Honduras

The 2014 medical center was not the end of Finish the Work's story in Honduras.

Our photographic archives document Finish the Work teams and projects in Honduras in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022.

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Those years of returning to Honduras demonstrate something important about Finish the Work: this ministry is built around more than arriving, completing a task and disappearing.

Relationships matter.

Local leadership matters.

And the ability of a finished building to continue serving people long after our volunteers return home matters.

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Building With the Future in Mind

Finish the Work sources materials in-country whenever possible and hires local laborers to work alongside volunteer teams.

There is a practical reason for that approach.

A building must remain maintainable after the mission team leaves. Familiar materials and local construction practices help community leaders repair and care for their facilities in the years ahead.

Finish the Work also works to preserve local ownership. We are there to serve the ministry — not claim its building as our own.

Here ares some frequently asked construction mission questions:

What did Finish the Work complete in Honduras?

One major Finish the Work project was the Christian Community in Honduras Medical Center in Taulabé. In 2014, teams helped complete the facility's second floor, including a kitchen, cafeteria, eight dorm rooms and medical-supply storage.

Has Finish the Work returned to Honduras?

Yes. Finish the Work's project archive documents teams serving in Honduras across multiple years, including 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022.

Why was the Honduras medical center important?

The facility was created to support healthcare and ministry for surrounding communities while also providing space for visiting medical teams and needed supplies.

How does Finish the Work choose projects?

Finish the Work focuses on buildings that are already in some phase of construction and are within a realistic scope for focused teams and resources to help complete.

A finished building can make years of ministry possible. Help Finish the Work complete the next one by volunteering, praying, giving or becoming a corporate partner.