ICM Hope Centers in Central America serve as safe and joyful spaces for children to come and be blessed.

One such center is located in Honduras, a country where issues like sex trafficking and gang violence cause problems for the next generation. Children form over half the population and most live in poverty. There are more “pepenadores” (garbage dump children) than any other nation in the Americas.

A local church founded in 2007, saw these challenges in their community and wanted to bring Christ’s hope to some of the most vulnerable among them. They began serving the children in their village, gathering to teach them God’s Word in the fields. The group began with 20 kids and slowly grew to reach 200.

Witnessing their children’s lives change, parents became interested in learning as well. The church needed a place for families to gather. “At first there was no place in our church or in our community where children had that space to enjoy recreation in a healthy way,” says an ICM partner. But people in the village donated money for land, and the church partnered with ICM in 2019 to fund construction of a Hope Center. In 2021, the building was dedicated.

Now the center is providing a new way of life for Honduran children who may otherwise be in unsafe environments. And it is not only transforming them, but also their families. “The Hope Center has had a huge impact on the lives of the beneficiaries and their entire families,” the partner explains. “It is the place where they are taught about God’s love, all that God did for each and every one of us, by dying on the cross, and also how important it is to love your neighbor.”

The local church is teaching Christ’s message of hope to the little ones and their futures are being changed for the better. The ICM partner says, “For us, it is a joy and blessing to have new facilities and to be able to tend more effectively—and in adequate conditions—to our children.”

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