Micah Project Summer 2008 Photos

The three Marvins: together at last! Marvin Soto came home for a couple of weeks during his summer vacation from Missouri Baptist University. Here, he stands at an overlook of Tegucigalpa with his two namesakes: Marvin M. and Marvin C. To read the story of our three Marvins, click here.

Summer is group season at the Micah Project! Our first team from the First Presbyterian Church of Houston spent a week with us in mid-June. They brought medical specialists to run mobile clinics in Villa Linda Miller, in the city dump and on the streets. They also brought a team to run children's ministries in those same places. Here, Robert, Hannah and Joan, along with Micah missionary Becca, look at a bullet wound in a street youth who arrived at their mobile clinic near the outdoor market of Tegucigalpa.

During the mobile clinic on the streets, Michael takes a moment to chat with Jose Daniel. Our street team has worked with this street boy on a weekly basis under one of the bridges in the market area. We have been praying about whether he might one day join the Micah Project!

One of the most amazing moments during the FPC visit was when they took their mobile clinic up to the city dump of Tegucigalpa. After setting up their table amidst the trash, they attended a whole line of people who make a living of scavenging through the dump. Here, Dr. Warren looks at a man with a severe infection on his chest.

Mary Floye has been a long-time friend of the Micah Project and of our young men. We always look forward to her visits with the FPC team. This year, she took some time away from the team to go visit Juan Carlos and Darwin at Proyecto Victoria. This six month drug rehab program works with youth and men from throughout Honduras that are struggling with drug or alcohol addiction. Juan Carlos and Darwin were very glad to spend an afternoon with Mary Floye!

Another ministry that we have been able to participate in this year is called CEDER, which is a home for abandoned senior citizens just around the corner from the Micah Project. While visiting CEDER with the team from FPC, Jeferson took some time out to feed one of the elderly ladies.

Our second team of the summer was from the Grace Point Community Church of Tigard, Oregon. Brian Wiggs, who will be moving his family to Honduras in 2009 to work with the Micah Project, was one of the organizers of the trip. He is passionately involved in street ministry in Portland, and will be bringing those skills and talents to our ministry here in Honduras. While the group from his church was here in Honduras at the end of June, Brian took them to the streets every afternoon to minister to the street kids there. Above, Brian takes a moment to pose with some of the street boys who live in the market district (including Jose Daniel, pictured with Michael above). Alex, on the far right, is inhaling yellow glue out of a Coke bottle.

One of the Grace Point group's missions was to build a small house for a young couple that lives on the streets with their two year old daughter. The group dug out a foundation on a rocky mountainside just outside of Tegucigalpa, in a new neighborhood that is a squatter settlement. Above, Brian and Ted work to loosen up the ground before laying the foundation.

Our final group of the summer was the youth group from the Memorial Drive Presbyterian church in Houston. This was a special time for us, since Olvin, one of our guys who is studying at the University of Houston, is interning with Memorial Drive this summer and came down as a leader! Above, Olvin helps to dig the retaining wall of the school in Villa Linda Miller.

The youth group from Memorial Drive also began the next two classrooms of the school in Villa Linda Miller. The Micah Project's groups have been working on the school for three years now; these will be the fifth and sixth classrooms built. Above, Becky, Chris and Suzanne get ready to lay a new line of block.

On May 30, a plane crash shut down the Tegucigalpa airport (to see a plane landing on Tegucigalpa's runway, which is one of the most dangerous in the world, click here). Because the airport was shut down for six weeks, all of our summer groups had to fly into San Pedro Sula, which is five hours north Tegucigalpa and close to the Caribbean coast. Well, we took advantage of the fact! We accompanied the Memorial Drive group up north at the end of their trip and spent a day on the beach with them. Above, Marvin, Maycol and the rest enjoy the banana boat ride in the Caribbean town of Tela.