Jim & Teri Riley
Missionaries to Honduras

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Latest Version
Easter '08

Jim and Teri Riley
U-APDO 9279
Tegucigalpa, Honduras CA
phone: 011 (504) 211-8412
our email is in TeguTalk

Tegucigalpa: Urban Ministry

tegus.jpg - 5595 Bytes Tegucigalpa is the capital of Honduras, Central America approximately 2.5 hours by plane, south of Houston, TX. Rapidly growing, Tegus as we affectionately call it, boasts of over one million residents. Neighborhoods are spreading up and over the surrounding mountains, with or without permission of the city planners and utilities companies. This causes many homes to be without water, sewer, electricity, and decent streets. For the average person working a 60-hour week he can expect to earn about $160 a month. Many don't have full time jobs, so earn less. Tegus is a very old city and yet becoming quite modern. The downtown area is the oldest part of the city, with its narrow streets, reminding one of the horse-and-buggy days. Yet, malls, McDonald's, Little Ceasars, and Burger King have been added in recent years to both downtown and outlying areas.

Jim & Teri Riley:  Partners in His Service

Jim was born in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. His parents were missionaries there in Canada until Jim was 9 years old. Then they moved to South Dakota and finally Council Bluffs, Iowa.  Jim got his degree from Ozark Christian College. BBL (Bachelor in Biblical Literature). He and Teri went to language school in Antigua, Guatemala.  Jim felt God calling him to be a missionary in church camp as an adolescent.

Teri is from Muskogee, Oklahoma originally and she's proud to be one (an Okie from Muskogee)! Yet she grew up in the Midwest as her family moved quite a bit with her father’s job with Union Pacific Railroad. (Kansas City, St. Louis, Omaha, and Council Bluffs).  She surrendered her life to Christ at age 10 in Kansas City, Missouri. Teri spent her first year of college at Iowa Western, in Council Bluffs, Iowa and then finished her teaching degree at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, Missouri. (Plus several classes at Ozark.)

They met in Lewis Central High School, Council Bluffs, Iowa. These high-school sweethearts married on December 29th, 1990. They have four beautiful children, Jesi, Jeni, Josh and Jimmy.

 

The Riley family has been on the mission field full-time since May 1995.  

Their mission in Honduras is two fold, Church Planting and Campus Ministry.

God has given us the privilege to help start two churches in the capital
city of Tegucigalpa. The 2nd church plant will be celebrating 6 years on
November 5, 2006. The first church will be completing 15 years in June of 2007. We
praise God for letting us be a part of both churches.

Mi Refugio (My Refuge) is a Campus Ministry of the local church (2nd church
plant). We have been working with University students all 12 years that
we’ve been here. We offer an alternative to the "party" scene on campus,
with activities designed for the non-Christian University student and
the Christian student alike. Once a month we have a campfire activity,
where students come to our house to meet new friends, play games, eat
supper, listen to and sing good music, and hear a short devotion that is
applicable to their lives. There are also ladies activities, men’s
sports outreach, and married couples dinners and seminars. Our goal with
the campus ministry is to share Jesus and get students connected with
His Body, the Church.
 

The Riley Kids

Jessica Renae Riley
 		 Jennifer Aurora Riley
 
Joshua Nathanael Riley
 

James Andrew Riley
 

Rileys in Honduras
(http://www.TwoOkies.com/Riley)
Email your comment or suggestions to us: (our email can be found in Tegu-Talk)

  

All support checks should be made payable to Nortonville Christian Church with Riley Honduran Mission in the memo and sent to:

Nortonville Christian Church
PO Box 347
Nortonville KS 66060

 

This page was last updated on 04/23/07.