Roanoke children raise $225 for Honduras center

This past summer, Rickey Mulkey, director of Kingdom Kidz at Trinity Baptist Church, Roanoke, went on a missions trip to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and came home with a desire to do even more.

The trip, a team effort coordinated by Four Corners Ministries in Wadley, included a visit to the Hogar Bencaleth Multiple Sclerosis Center for Children. As team members spent time singing, playing and praying with the children, it became apparent that some material things were lacking and Mulkey took note.

“Rickey has kept the financial needs of that center in the back of his mind ever since the trip and recently decided to challenge the children in the Kingdom Kidz ministry to raise money for the children’s center in Honduras,” said Pastor Richard Richie, also a member of the Honduras missions team.

Mulkey’s challenge prompted the 40-plus children of Kingdom Kidz to mount a team effort of their own that raised $225 for the center. “That amount might not seem like much, but money goes a lot further in Honduras than it does in the United States,” Richie explained.

During the church’s fall festival in October 2007, Mulkey and several Kingdom Kidz members presented a check to Gary Clark, vice president of Four Corners, who will deliver the money to the center the next time he goes to Honduras.

Trinity Baptist’s Kingdom Kidz group meets on Wednesday nights.