Mission LazarusEnriching Mind, Body & Soul

Four areas of focus

Spiritual

Educational

Medical

Agricultural

Mission Lazarus

Refuge brings the four

focuses to one location

Other areas

Spiritual MinistryCollaboration with 17 Congregations

Spiritual

Choluteca

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Mission Lazarus provides for congregations

• Resources for Gospel Meetings

• Bibles• Song Books• Counsel, Advice,

& Encouragement• Legal Status from

Honduran Government• Vehicles• Special Programs (ie: nutrition program,

seminars, child sponsorship, medical brigades)

Educational Ministry

• Four Early Childhood Development Centers (ECDC/CIDT)

• 2 Vocational Sewing Schools• 1 Carpentry School• Christian Leader Training Center• Preacher training school

Early Childhood Development Centers

• Ciudad Nueva (Limon)• Monjaras• San Marcos de Colon• Duyure

• Focus on poorest of the poor• Max enrollment is 150 children• Each center has 1 director, 5 teachers, 2 cooks, & 2 guards• Children provided with education, 2 meals/day, love, & pay L.10 per month ($0.50)• Community Outreach, no strings attached gesture of God’s love

Vocational Sewing Schools

• San Marcos de Colon• Ciudad Nueva (Limon)

• Focus is on women without skills• Learn a trade that will provide for their families• Program lasts 2 years• Approximately 20 students in each school

Carpentry School

• Hacienda Mission Lazarus

• Equipped primarily by ACU with used industrial wood working equipment• Focuses on children from the Refuge as well as surrounding villages• Program lasts two years

Christian Leadership Training Center

• Meets in downtown Choluteca on weekends.

• 2 year program.• Local preachers are teachers.• Approximately 40 students

currently enrolled.• Focuses on church members from

the regions who want to become more active

Medical Ministry

• Clinica Lázaro – Las Pitas• Clinica Lázaro – Cedeño (opens 2010)• Nutrition Program – Entire Choluteca

Region• Family Program – Entire Choluteca Region

Clinica Lázaro

• Full operating Clinic• 3,000+ families on file• Open 3 days per week in Las Pitas• Staffs full time Doctor, Nurse, Pharmacist, Guard, Driver, Evangelist• Meredith Jones is Director of Health Services• 2008 women’s health services are offered providing detection of cancer & other diseases through Pap smears

Nutrition Program

• 80 children currently sponsored.• Receive sack of nutritious food

& medical check up every month.• Family receives 4 laying hens upon entering program.• Program lasts one year, child graduates or is removed from program.• Serves as church outreach in areas served, no strings attached gesture of God’s love.

Family Program

• Goal is to work with at risk

families so that they will not have children in the nutrition program.• Families receive monthly visits to learn about health

and hygiene.• Families also receive medical check ups.• Serves at a church outreach throughout the Choluteca region.

Agricultural

Mission Lazarus Hacienda• Serves at Outreach tool for training seminars for

local Campesino (Peasant) farmers.• Serves as outreach tool for training seminars for

major area cattle and milk producers.• Serves at outreach to US college students through

crop and animal studies with Abilene Christian University.

• Vocational training for children of the Mission Lazarus Refuge.

• Source of income for Mission Lazarus Refuge.

Agricultural - Outreaches

• Drip Kit seminars train campesinos how to raise a garden in the dry season and how to make organic fertilizer (compost).

• Artificial Insemination seminars train area cattlemen on advantages of using AI and how to AI a cow.

• Corn variety test with ACU dept of Agriculture & Environmental Studies - 2007.

• Legume forage study with ACU dept of Agriculture & Environmental Studies - 2008.

Agricultural - Vocational Training for Mission Lazarus Refuge• Children will begin to

care for calves and production cows.

• Children will have riding & horsemanship lessons.

• Children will learn how to begin a family garden and will maintain a garden year round.

Agricultural – Mission Lazarus Hacienda, a BusinessDairy & Beef Cattle• Milking herd of 60

head of cattle– 17 Holstein heifers

imported from New Zealand.

– Brahman, jersey, holstein crosses

• Beef herd of 10 Brangus heifers.

• Approximately 60 calves

Dairy Business

• Currently producing 450 - 500 liters per day in rainy season.

• Goal of 1000 liters per day.

• Milk is sold locally for $0.40 per liter (~ $1.60 per gallon).

• Milk is provided to Mission Lazarus Refuge.

• Milk is provided Nutrition Program.

• Milk is provided to ECDC.

Beef Business

• 10 brangus heifers• New heifer calves will be added to the herd.• New bull calves will be sold or fattened for use

within the Refuge.• Goal is to grow to beef herd to 30 Brangus cows.• Steers will be sold for around $0.50 per pound, 2x

US price.

Pork Business

• 1 boar & 5 sows.• Piglets are sold at 3

months.• Pork will be provided

to Mission Lazarus Refuge.

Coffee Business

• Approximately 30 acres in production.• Old coffee trees are being pruned for

new growth to increase yields (approximately 2/3 of plants).

• Over grown shade trees are being pruned to allow for more sunlight.

• Plan is to double in size within the next 5 years.

• Coffee is roasted and sold for $12 per 1 1/2lb bag.

• Goal is for ML to retail all coffee.• Coffee cooperative pays $1.70 per

pound of unroasted beans.• Coffee is 100% organic• High elevation - over 4000 ft- grown• Arabica beans.

Timber Business• 350 acres of Pine & Oak forest where coffee

plantation is located.• Vast amounts of mature timber that NEEDS to be

harvested.• 2008 & 2009 pines infested with Pine Bark

Beetle were harvested.• 120 cubic meters• Net $5000 for ML• Private forestry technicians estimate we have

around $150,000.00 of mature timber that needs to be harvested.

• A “Plan de Manejo” or management plan that is required by Honduras government is currently in the works.

• Once completed we can begin the process of obtaining permits to harvest Pine timber.

Reforestation

• 2007 - 5000 Pine trees planted at the Mission Lazarus Hacienda.

• 2008/9 - 40,000 trees planted• Varieties Include

– Pine– Guanacaste– Spanish Cedar– Mahogany– Eucalyptus

• Trees provide an Environmental Endowment

• for Mission Lazarus.• Board foot of Spanish Cedar

currently $2.00

Mission Lazarus Refuge

• Focuses on natural siblings, orphaned, abandoned, & neglected.

• Currently 30 children custody of Mission Lazarus.

• 6 homes at Mission Lazarus Refuge open that can house a maximum of 10 children & 2 Tias or Aunts.

• Currently are waiting to have more children assigned to us by child protective services.

Mission Lazarus Refuge Staff

• Delia Solis – US educated local director

• Allison Brown - Director of Social Services - Areas of Focus:

• Includes Physical & Mental health at Refuge.• Providing oversight

and mentoring to Delia Solis.• The goal is to work

herself out of a job.

Other Areas - U.S. Teams

• 38 teams scheduled for 2009

• Work at churches, clinics, schools, and Mission Lazarus Refuge.

• Provide invaluable encouragement to locals.

• Provide funding for much needed projects.

• Provide life changing experience for group members.

Other Areas - Internship Program

• 10 week program • Interns work in all ML

projects• They are treated as

adults and are responsible for their own cooking, cleaning, etc.

• 2009 had 12 interns working with us.