5!

Two posts in two days?  

​I must be excited about something.

As of Tuesday, we are now at 5 Milk Project locations!

Starting 23 years ago in Tegucigalpa,
Sampedrana in 2018, Las Botijas in 2022, and now two more in 2023!  Cantarranas has been open about six months, and now Talanga.  

The surge in new sponsors is thanks to South Shore Community Church, as you can see without their push, this normally would have taken us years!

The building isn't done yet, that will take quite a while yet, but the kids are there, and the staff has been hired (the director and a potential cook/helper) and they can use the sanctuary for the time being.  

We poured another section of the ground level floor with the group this week, there is more to do there, plus getting all the blocks upstairs and working on the building itself.  It will take a few months.  

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Huge change this year for the Milk Project then, not only in locations, but with Marvin moving from teaching English to taking over church development duties, we hired a new teacher, another staff person to help with the day to day in Tegucigalpa with Maria now supervising more locations, and hiring help in the USA to communicate with sponsors and coordinating communication on needs, goings on, etc.  (Cecilia for those that know her!)

What's next then?  Well, we have more sponsors to get for Talanga, but when the construction there is done, we will move to helping the church in Danli getting ready with the needed construction there, praying that perhaps in 2024, that will be the next location for another Milk Project!  

There is also more training to do, as we grow, for the teachers/directors, but also how to further integrate the projects with the churches and getting the pastors more involved in being with the kids and doing home visits.  When the new office/conference building is completed, there will definitely be more of those kinds of meetings going forward!  

Prayers for the staff...working together during all these changes and growth, and keeping focus during this on serving Christ in their day to day activities!