Meet the Ground Team

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    Max and Hannah Anderson

    Max and Hannah Anderson and their four children served in Honduras through the Samaritan's Purse Post Residency Program for 2.5 years prior to joining the Christian Health Service Corps in 2024. Hannah grew up as the child of medical missionaries serving in Africa and later in the Middle East. She is a family physician with a fellowship in surgical obstetrics. Max is a licensed architect and has experience managing projects at all phases of the design and construction process including pre-design through construction administration and project closeout. During his time in Honduras, Max has gained experience maintaining and developing hospital systems and infrastructure.

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    Judith Blumhofer

    Judy is a pediatrician who completed her residency at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. She then served for two years in the Samaritan’s Purse Post Residency Program. She then went on to join the Christian Health Service Corps. She worked at a mission hospital in Honduras for a total of 10.5 years where she served at various times as medical director, clinic director, pharmacy director, volunteer coordinator and director of a children’s center. She is a practitioner in trust based relational intervention and is also a long term foster parent currently caring for three children. In addition to her work in Honduras, she has spent time working with different missions organizations throughout Central and South America, Asia, and Africa.

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    Jared and Jenny Brockington

    Jared is a pediatrician who trained in Galveston, Texas at UTMB, and Jenny is a family physician who trained at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and has her Diploma of Tropical Medicine from the National School of Tropical Medicine. They spent 7.5 years serving in rural Kenya and Malawi, teaching and discipling in African family medicine residency programs.

    They first served short term in Honduras during medical school and are excited to be returning to the origins of their missions journey in Latin America to join the Hospital Yojoa team.

     Their two children, Sophia and Oliver are excited to be joining them on the adventure of serving with Hospital Yojoa.

  • Faith Colbath

    Faith first came to Honduras in 2006 when her family moved here as missionaries. Growing up in a children's home surrounded by many siblings, she developed a deep love for the Honduran people and witnessed firsthand both the strengths and challenges of the local healthcare system.

    These experiences inspired her to pursue nursing, earning her RN degree in Texas before returning to Honduras, this time as a missionary.

    Through her ministry, Faith in Honduras, she serves in a variety of ways, including maternity nursing, teaching middle school students, and tutoring children. Her passion is to use the gifts God has given her to serve others and to help restore faith and trust in the Honduran healthcare system.

  • Norman Guandique

    Norman is a civil engineer with experience spanning municipal work, private construction, and entrepreneurial leadership.

    As the founder and Technical Director of NG Ingeniería Construcciones, Norman has led the planning and execution of multiple projects, managing everything from budgets and timelines to on-site supervision and quality control. His leadership is marked by responsibility, teamwork, and a strong commitment to excellence.

    Whether coordinating with contractors, working alongside clients, or solving challenges in the field, Norman consistently helps move our work forward with integrity and precision.

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    Esohe "Grace" Iyamu-Osagiede

    Grace is a family physician who completed a rural family medicine residency with Lousiana State University-New Orleans and is currently working on her master’s in nonprofit development /administration remotely through LSU- Shreveport. She spent two years of her medical education on the low medically resourced Caribbean island of Dominica where she was able to lead community outreach programs. She participated in several short-term medical mission trips to Honduras prior to making it her home a little over one year ago.

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    Amanda Metcalf

    Amanda is a family nurse practitioner with a master’s in nursing with specialization in Education from the University of Phoenix. She has over 7 years’ experience in a retail walk in clinic in the United States. She also has experience working as a nurse in a pediatric emergency department as well as medical/surgical unit and working as a sexual assault nurse examiner for both adults and children. Prior to making Honduras her home in October 2022, she visited several times to study Spanish and to serve with short term missions in various communities. She is currently working in a primary care clinic in Siguatepeque while continuing to study Spanish.