The Maternity Home ministry provides Connect Global access to serve both moms and newborns with great care and dignity while sharing the good news of Jesus with our employees, hospital staff and each new mom that we meet.
Connect Global has now surpassed serving 1000 Mothers since opening in September 2019.
Each and every day our team has the unique and amazing opportunity to serve mothers from across Honduras. Our ministry is directly affecting mothers who are the most vulnerable. Their babies are being born early or with specific complications and are in need of the specialized care of the neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU. They are in a very emotional and spiritually draining time of their life. They are in need of both tangible and intangible necessities. Our team is available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. We are able to provide practical needs such as a clean bed, laundry and shower facilities, 3 meals a day as well as emotional and spiritual support such as prayer, pastoral care, and a shoulder to cry on.
Our Maternity Home serves about 50 mothers per month from all across the department of Atlántida in Honduras. Many travel from distances of 2-6 hours or more away. All throughout the pandemic mothers have made the treacherous and arduous journey from their homes to the closest hospital in the region. Every day babies are born in the City of La Cieba and those babies who are born into hard circumstances or very delicate scenarios are in need of more specialized care and may need to stay in the hospital for several days up to several weeks.
In the past our local hospital had no extra space for a mother who would be in the position of being released from care before their babies were cleared to go home.
This presented a problem because they had no clean, safe place to stay and were left to fend for themselves and most times this meant creating a makeshift bed from cardboard and laying in the open air corridors of the hospital. This left mothers exposed to the elements and vulnerable to infection, the climate, and other circumstances that are inhumane for a mother who had just given birth.
Now because of the Maternity Home, Connect Global is able to restore dignity and provide the appropriate care these mothers deserve.
We could not do what we do without many generous friends who choose to Give With Us!
We are grateful for the many friends and partners who continue to make this Maternity Home a priority.
Hoy se inauguró el hogar materno en el Hospital Regional de Atlántida, La Ceiba, donado por el programa de asistencia humanitaria del @Southcom de EE.UU. para fortalecer la capacidad institucional y beneficiar a la población de La Ceiba y comunidades rurales aledañas. pic.twitter.com/S4LdJ8VJj0
— U.S. Embassy Honduras (@usembassyhn) October 28, 2019
A huge thank You to Hector and Lorena for the amazing donation from Iglesia Gran Comisión in La Ceiba. The Maternity Home has now had the honor of serving 894 mothers and the community here has chosen to Stand with Us time and time again.
“We thank God for his love and mercy and for being the provider to every need, 894 mothers who have been in the care of Connect Global and the Maternal Home team, we ask God to continue opening doors of blessing and to touch generous hearts”
Janeth Montoya, Maternity Home Director, with Nancy’s new baby
Nancy with Her Baby in her arms and ready to head home.
Nancy Was very elated to finally get the discharge from the hospital she was praying for.
We are grateful for the many opportunities we encounter on a daily basis to be witness to the miracles God is doing for these families. Our team is not only prepared to pray with the moms and share the Love of Jesus with each one but we help in practical ways everyday. We provide hot meals, clean beds, laundry facilities for those staying an extended amount of time. We also have been able to provide life saving tests, medications, and treatments for both mother and their newborns.
Danielle and I were able to tour the neonatal area and meet with Belkis, the head charge nurse. We learned more about their current needs and how to best help going forward. It is truly amazing what God is doing both through the many talented and skilled hospital staff and what our team can do as support staff to help these mothers.
Another Way that the Maternity Home Team is able to make a lasting impression and life changing difference in the lives of the mothers we serve is by sharing the story of our faith and making invitation for them to cross the line of faith in their own lives. We are grateful for the many generous folks who help us make bibles available for any who want them.
Many times before the Maternity Home was built our team would observe mothers waiting anxiously for their children in the corridors of the hospital. Mothers were exposed to the elements but staying in close proximity to their children was important to the moms even though it was unsafe at times and very uncomfortable. There just were no other options at the time.
On September 11, 2019 the Connect Global Team started operating the Maternity Home in La Ceiba, Honduras and began hosting these mothers. This Maternity Home got them up off the floor and into brand new beds with access to clean bathrooms, showers, laundry facilities, and 24 hour care by the Connect Global team.
It is the generosity of people like you who makes it possible for us to provide hot meals, clothing, medications, and newborn necessities when available.
Many of our friends in the US have even shopped our Amazon WishList and shipped many items directly to us so we can continue to give generously to each mother. We are in constant need of onesies, hats, receiving blankets, laundry supplies, and much more. You can view our entire wish list by clicking the button below.
“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.”
3 of the Connect Global Team Members Juana, (Front), Karina, & Sandra pictured inside the Maternity Home.
In addition to 3 meals per day, each mom at the Connect Global Maternity Home ministry can expect a clean bed, new laundry facilities, a clothing bank of new and donated items, as well as a caring, loving staff.
This Maternity Home is truly a blessing from God and has already been a blessing to over 894 mothers as of Apr 27, 2021.
Our team is committed to serving the moms in our care with love and grace.
If you would like the opportunity to invest in the care of these moms, you can do so by making a donation online, or by planning to come on one of the several mission trips we have scheduled.
We would love for you to be a part of this life changing ministry.
Connect Global is proud to serve the many mothers and their children at the Maternity Home in La Ceiba, Honduras.
A recent group of lovely mothers inside the lobby of the Maternity Home in La Ceiba, Honduras in 2020.
Connect Global Maternity Home Ministry Fund
Thank You for Your Support, every dollar donated goes to help us operate the 24/7 ministry here at the Maternity Home.
Our team provides 24 hour care which includes, preparing and serving hot meals, processing donations, cleaning, and ministry in the form of prayer, and providing items for the moms to help them recover and make their way back to their own home.
The Maternity Home ministry provides Connect Global access to serve both moms and newborns with great care and dignity while sharing the good news of Jesus with our employees, hospital staff and each new mom that we meet.