Our Board
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Board Chair
Thiery “Reign” Sparks is an executive assistant at an investment office and graduated from The King’s College, New York in 2015. He first made a medical mission trip to Honduras in 2007 as part of the youth group of St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church, Killeen. Since then, he has served faithfully on the brigade trips, and serves on the brigade planning committee. He is committed to supporting the Health, Education, and Spirit of the Honduran people.
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Vice Chair
Alina was born in Cuba and came to the US when she was 8 years old. Her family came penniless and homeless but were helped by friends, different churches and organizations such as the Salvation Army. She grew up believing that she needed to help those in need. This was not just her Christian duty but it was a way of giving back to those who helped her family all those years ago.
She became an internal medicine physician and has worked mainly for institutions that help the underserved and most recently for Communitycare which is part of the Austin Travis county hospital health district.
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Treasurer
After 40+ years of non-profit accounting, Margaret has finally retired and is doing exactly what she wants to do and when she wants to do it! She always knew she wanted to go on mission trips and volunteer more at her church.
She is in charge of her church Mobile, Loaves & Fishes clothing shed; studying Psalms in her senior adult bible study class; leading the women’s book club; starting another bible study based on The Chosen series; going even deeper in her faith journey with another women’s bible study; and last but not least, she is the volunteer director of her church’s Senior Adult Activity Center.
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Board Secretary
Roxana has over 10 years of international development experience in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Jamaica, Ecuador, and Argentina. Roxana holds a B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Women and Gender studies from The University of Texas at Austin and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Management. Throughout her career, Roxana has worked with various non-profit organizations in both Washington, DC, and Austin, TX providing direct operations support to secondary education projects in Latin America and Head Start Programs in the U.S.
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Board Member
Ami was introduced to Honduras Good Works by mother-in-law Linda Holt who has served on many medical brigades. One brigade in 2014 created a love for the Honduran people and began the journey of 20+ trips to Honduras for the medical and education programs.
Ami is an IT Infrastructure Program Manager with no medical background. God will work through anyone with a willingness to serve.
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Board Member in Honduras
Diana Rosales is a mechanical engineer from Honduras, currently working as a spacecraft structural engineer in the team building the first honduran satellite. In 2016, when her public university went on strike, she reached out to HGW's facebook page seeking an opportunity to volunteer as a translator. Since then, she has volunteered on each year's medical brigade and on numerous scholarship trips. In her free time, she volunteers as a table tennis coach at a children's home in her hometown. She also enjoys reading, painting, arts & crafts and nature, especially bird watching. She is passionate about education and women's empowerment. She considers Honduras Good Works a big blessing in her life as it has given her an opportunity to serve her fellow Hondurans.
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Board Member in Honduras
Josefina Santos was born in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, Central America. She graduated as a civil engineer at the National University of Honduras. After her little daughter Gabriela died of Leukemia, she decided to stop working in the engineering field and to do mission work instead.
She is currently the Carelink Foundation Director for Honduras, a US non-profit based in Chicago, where she leads a ministry to accompany churches in holistic health programs, focusing on education for community transformation. The water filter program is an important part of this work.
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Board Member
Susan White is the daughter of the founding members of Honduras Good Works, Don and Bobi Hopkins. She has been involved in the mission trip since the beginning since her parents were throwing packing parties for medical supplies in their garage in Temple, Texas. When the medical brigade began going to Honduras in July, Susan joined the group and has been on over 10 trips with the medical team. Going to Honduras and serving God's people is the highlight of her year. Watching the HGW medical mission grow and continue has been a gift that keeps giving as much to the people we serve as it does to the ones who are moved to serve.
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Board Member
Becky Sparks has been involved with Honduras Good Works for over 15 years, making her first trip accompanying the Youth Group from St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church in Killeen, Texas. Since then, she has gone every year (except for the COVID interrupted year), and has sponsored others as well. Her sons, William and Thiery have been active with the Brigade, and also with the Scholarship trips. Their participation serves as models for her involvement.
Becky has also had various roles with Honduras Good Works, including Risk Management, Packing Party Liaison for several churches, and Evangelism Team while in Honduras. There is always lots of fun to be experienced with the younger crowd on a Brigade! (Bubbles are her specialty!)
She recently completed 50 years as a certified pilot, and her aviation career included 33 years with Southwest Airlines. She is assigned as Deacon to Christ Episcopal Church, Temple, Texas, where some of her ministry emphasis includes those struggling with homelessness and addiction issues. (Christ Episcopal Church and St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church in Killeen continue to be sponsors of Honduras Good Works.)
She is honored to continue to be part of the efforts of Honduras Good Works.
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Board Member
Alden is an art director and graphic designer based in central Texas, focused on pro bono clients and small business startups, with 20+ years experience across wide ranging media platforms. Recruited to the organization by his mother, Holly, who has served on medical brigades to Honduras since 2000, he has volunteered with HGW for several years producing graphics, marketing, and fundraising materials to support its various missions to rural Hondurans.
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Board Member
Dennis’ introduction to HGW came about in 2006 after his spouse, Brenda Towell, volunteered him for the medical mission trip. He has missed 2 or 3 trips since but has made it a priority. While sitting around the table Dennis and others began to talk seriously about a scholarship program several years ago. The medical missions serve a need, but education is the long-term answer.
Dennis is trained as a medical oncologist and hematologist and has served as a provider on our missions. He retired from full time practice in 2015 but still works in New Zealand several months a year. I
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Board Member
GA volunteered with Honduras Good Works starting in 1999, coming on the yearly mission trip and performing the “treatment nurse” role of testing and nursing procedures. He is a career Medical Laboratory Technologist with over 20 years of experience both in the lab and training students. He has worked in hospitals all over the country and now calls Temple, Texas home.
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Board Member Emeritus
Brenda started going to Honduras with the medical brigades in 2010, at the insistence of her family who all had been on mission trips before! While she didn't feel at all equipped for such work, God indeed showed his Hand, providing the skills that she was lacking in other volunteers over and over again. This was clearly His working and His will. After a few years, she became more and more involved, serving on the brigade planning committee, and then chairing the Board from 2015-2021. She currently is chair of the health committee, and leads the brigade planning subcommittee. She also is active in our annual fund-raiser. She is a retired medical oncologist, married to fellow board member, Dr. Dennis Tweedy. She enjoys traveling, hiking, quilting and planning for the next brigade!
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Head of the Episcopal Deanery of Yuscaran
Reverendo Dagoberto has many churches under his direction. He serves as our Honduran Spiritual Advisor. Dagoberto works very closely with Honduras Good Works on all our programs there: medical mission, education, vitamin program, and church construction. He is truly the spiritual leader for his followers in all the villages where we work, preaching the Gospel and exhorting the youth to get an education and avoid the pitfalls of early pregnancy, drinking, crime, drugs. Dagoberto makes it possible for our organization to do its good works.