This is the official team photo from Missouri Baptist University's soccer team from the fall of 2006.  Marvin and Oscar are the third and fourth from the left on the front row.  Click here to learn more about Missouri Baptist University!

Marvin and his siblings had to learn to fend for themselves from a young age.  Their grandmother, who raised the five children, did all she could to support them by selling packets of peanuts on a street corner in downtown Tegucigalpa.  Yet poverty and hunger chased the children one-by-one on to the streets, where Marvin found himself by the age of six.  Marvin is one of the lucky ones:  he was rescued by a crisis center for street kids after only a few months on the streets, before the yellow glue and other street vices completely took hold.  His brothers were not so lucky.  Even so, Marvin was on-and-off the streets for the next four years, never staying in one place for more than a few months at a time.  Despite this lack of stability, Marvin's intelligence, courage, and drive were easy to spot from a young age.  When we began working with Marvin, he began using his many talents in amazing ways!  Marvin is definitely a leader at the Micah house.  The other boys look to him for encouragement and support.   His ability to reflect and problem-solve are surprising for a eighteen year-old, and he is thinking about studying to be a psychologist.  When he is not studying, Marvin has many goals that keep him busy!  He is an important part of our theater ministry to schools, jails, orphanages, etc., singing a wide range of songs that young audiences love!  In 2003, he began working at a local orphanage every Saturday and Sunday.