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LATIN AMERICA

In Honduras and El Salvador, our aim is to develop educated, professional young Christian men who will one day play active leadership roles within their communities.

From the graphic, you can see that San Pedro Sula, Honduras, has taken out the top spot again as The World’s Most Dangerous City. Tegucigalpa, the nation’s capital, came in at third.                          

SAN PEDRO SULA HOME. RECENT ARRIVALS     He’s so young.  Some of his relatives are gang members. He has no dad. Then one night, the gang came calling on his mum – they murdered her. Kids like him end up drifting into the gang scene. Bear in mind that these gangs are reputedly the world’s most violent.                                             But now he lives with us!  If he tries hard and buckles down, then he has a real shot at having a good marriage, a quality education, a professional career, and leading some form of meaningful ministry.

 Another new boy did not quite fit our selection criteria because we felt that his situation was not desperate enough. We were told that he had both a supportive mum and dad, plus he went to school. As we saw it, his problem was simply that he lived in a gang zone. We felt that this was not sufficient grounds for selection to join us. That was until a few days later, when we heard that the gang had come to their house and told the family that he had to join them. Now he has come to live with us instead. But, his family have had to flee their home for their lives to escape punishment for their disobedience to the gang.

Our San Pedro Sula boys’ house is owned by the ministry. This is because a couple of years back, we “bought” it via a rent-to-buy contract at a severely reduced price.       Our boys are doing much better than simply “good”; actually, they are doing great. Our house parents – pastors of a local church – are warm, organised and visionary.

Meanwhile, in El Salvador, we have taken on more boys into the Education Project there. Our leader there now has his wife, Monica, working there too. We feel it is a bonus for our kids to see what a normal married couple looks and acts like, as opposed to the dysfunctionality that they have lived in all of their lives. We are now employing an English language tutor to come in and professionally teach the guys. This is all part of our plan to develop intelligent Christian leadership.