Rev. David Blanchard
Field of Labor
Honduras
San Pedro Sula / Cortes
God's Calling
How God found a laborer for the harvest
We have been under the ministry of Pastor Schwing in Lafayette, Louisiana since 1997.
- Home Missions Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA (2005-2011)
- Home Missions in Covington, Louisiana, USA (2018-2020)
- Evangelism / Outreach to Several Areas around Lafayette (2011-2024)
- Sunday School Superintendent (2014-2024)
- Missionary to Honduras (2024 - Present)
From the Front Lines
What God is doing in Honduras
The work in Honduras started from an Outreach/Bible Study in the Covington (Northshore) area of Louisiana, with families that are from Honduras. We started seeing converts come from our outreach and eventually we had a young man (Daniel) get the Holy Ghost and get baptized in Jesus' name. After his conversion, he started to fellowship our daughter and when they decided it was the will of God for them to get married, we visited the family in Honduras. From that visit and the wedding, we had over 10 get baptized in Jesus' name. My wife and I continued to visit Honduras for several months, in which we kept seeing interest, and God opened doors for us to find a place to stay and for us to have services. We now have a building for church and our first service was in early 2026 - we had 38 visitors. Bro. Schreckhise was with us and preached the first service for us, and we are so excited about what God is doing and looking forward to what is next as we make disciples here by the help of the Holy Ghost.
Dreams for the Kingdom
What your support would mean for Honduras
We were able to buy a small AWD vehicle for the mission, but for the first couple of years, any time we had to bring our people to events (Schreckhise's), we rented vans. We are hoping to be able to purchase a nice van that can handle the terrain, and also I would like to get a truck for getting out to some of the remote areas (our car has gotten stuck in some of our endeavors).
We also plan to remodel two rooms and a bathroom in the back of our church building for setting up a medical/dental clinic, as we have met folks that are interested in helping us with this. The medical professionals are from Honduras and are willing to volunteer services a few days a week, and we plan to use that as an outreach tool to introduce the area to our church and to provide medical/care needs as we are able to fund this.
We also see this first work in San Pedro Sula as our home base, but we are praying to see other works get started in surrounding areas (Santa Barbara, etc.). We are part of the Central America Apostolic Missionaries (El Salvador, Belize, Panama, Guatemala) and we are in rotation of hosting camp meetings and ministry events for our people, and support that comes in helps us to take care of the costs involved with these.