About Us
Union Christian Church is an interdenominational church serving the English speaking community in Honduras. Our members come from many different cultural and denominational backgrounds. We are an elder led congregational church. Our leadership adheres to scripture and uses best practices from the 9Marks Biblical Church Leadership structure.
Union Christian Church
Leadership
Our Pastor
Joel and Tara Beauchamp have been married since 2010 and are raising two children, Caroline and Christopher. They have served as missionaries in Kenya, Nepal and Honduras.
Joel's work has included pastoral leadership, church planting, prison ministry and launching a Christian rehabilitation facility in Nepal.
Joel attended Piedmont University in North Georgia were he studied English and Mass communication. He has received training through Youth with a Mission’s University of the Nations, Waypoint Center Servant Leadership Program and the Christian Leaders Institute. He is a certified Genesis Process counselor and is ordained by the Maysville Baptist Church of North Georgia.
We are delighted that God has called Joel and Tara to the Union Church family.
Elder Felipe Colby
Felipe and Valerie Colby came to begin working with His Eyes / Clinica Cuerpo de Cristo in the late 1990s through short term groups with FCO (Fellowship of Christian Optometrists) from Indiana University. They interned with the mission in 1999 for four months to help get the optometry work started, and moved here full time in 2000.
Valerie currently works in the clinic as a staff optometrist. Felipe is the mission’s executive director. They have two adult children, Cecilia and Soren, who were both born in Tegucigalpa. (Soren was born in the old clinic building.)
Elder Michael Miller
Michael has been serving in Honduras for more than 25 years. Following the devastation of Hurricane Mitch in 1998, he helped a community of 165 families rebuild their lives in the Villa Linda Miller, 6 miles outside of the capital city.
Two years later, The Micah Project opened the first group home to reach street-connected young men in downtown Tegucigalpa. After increasing gang violence became a danger, in 2013, Micah 2.0 opened adjacent to Villa Linda Miller.
Deacon Miguel Villatoro
Miguel has been a part of Union since 2021. He is an active part of the men’s Bible study, the weekly prayer group and can be seen volunteering anywhere and everywhere. Miguel is usually the first one here and the last one to leave!
Deacon Hiro Kawano
A native of Japan, Hiro has lived in Honduras for much of his adult life, during which he has worked for Mitsubishi. He and his wife, Zoila, have been blessed with three sons. Hiro is an active in the mens Bible Study often leading the discussion and he can be seen each Sunday morning singing on the Worship Team.
Union Christian Church
Covenant/Statement of Faith
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We believe that God exists in three persons while remaining one in essence: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who are eternally and equally self-existent, self-revealed, and one in purpose. Jesus Christ, who is God manifested in the flesh, is the second person of the Godhead, co-equal and co-eternal with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
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We believe the Bible is the inspired word of God, a revelation from God to man, the infallible and final authority for our faith and conduct, and is superior to conscience and reason, but not contrary to reason.
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We believe in the Sacraments of Baptism in water and Holy Communion, in the Church as Christ’s Body of Believers, and in Life Everlasting.
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We believe the Scriptures declare that Jesus Christ is coming again to gather all His saints unto Himself.
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We believe that man was created good and upright, but man, by voluntary transgression fell from God’s favor, and his only hope of redemption is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Salvation is by faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone, and not by any human works. The inward evidence to the believer of this salvation is the direct witness of the Holy Spirit.
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We believe the Church is the Body of Christ, the habitation of God through the Spirit, with divine appointments for the fulfillment of the Great Commission. Each true believer, born of the Spirit, is an integral part of the general assembly and Church of the first born, which are written in heaven. Every believer should be involved in and supportive of the local church.
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We believe the Church has been commissioned to take the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ to every tongue, tribe, people and nation.
Upon this foundation of our faith, we covenant with one another and with God to live and labor together as true disciples of Christ.
9Marks Biblical Church Leadership
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Expositional Preaching
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Gospel Doctrine
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A Biblical Understanding of Conversion and Evangelism
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A Biblical Understanding of Church Membership
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Biblical Church Discipline
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A Biblical Concern for Discipleship and Growth
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Biblical Church Leadership: Elders and Deacons
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A Biblical Understanding and Practice of Prayer
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A Biblical understanding and Practice of Missions
