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Bill & Beth Ryan

Bill Ryan sensed God’s call to missions in 1998 while working as an electrician on a mission trip in Arizona. During that trip, God impressed on him that the work he was doing there had eternal value. In a sense, he was helping missionaries share the life-changing Gospel with children on the reservation. Although his electrical skills were being used where they couldn’t be seen, he was part of the process, and that impression struck him. “I then knew what God had created me for,” he said.

For Beth Ryan, it was during a series of evangelistic meetings in the former Yugoslavia where she sensed the deep need for missionary work. A year later, Bill was invited to build a power line into a farm school called El Sembrador in Honduras. After returning home Bill felt encouraged and confident that this was a place where they could serve God and together they began to pray. An article written by Todd Eckhardt in “The Call,” helped Beth make the final decision to go to Honduras as a missionary for the Lord. According to Beth, Todd’s article was simply stated, but it said exactly what she had known her entire Christian life. “There is a great need for missionaries and we know God calls His people to missions, but maybe the lack of missionaries is because we are not answering the call.” This article helped solidify the decision to move forward in life as missionaries.

Together they have two daughters. Megan, 22, who is graduating from Asbury College in 2011, majoring in elementary education, and Sarah, 19, is in her sophomore year at Asbury College, majoring in biochemistry.

Where we serve:

Our home is in Puerto Lempira Honduras. Puerto Lempira is in an area of Honduras known as La Moskita. National Geographic Magazine described La Moskitia as "a remote tangle of roadless swamp and savanna, wide lagoons, small farms and malarial villages."

La Moskitia is an area split between Honduras and Nicaragua and is home of the Miskitos indigenous minority. Of the Honduran Moskitia, 75% of the population live below the poverty line.

Women and children are the main victims of the sanitary emergency: 77 out of 1000 children die because of diarrhea, malaria, tuberculosis and malnutrition.

The main problem is the inaccessibility of the region; it is reachable only by plane or by boat. There are no roads that connect it with the rest of the country.