God had a plan.

In the year 2000, Hurricane Mitch made landfall on Honduras. The devastation that came from that event devasted downtown Tegucigalpa.

The Beginning

The Micah Project opened our first group home in downtown Tegucigalpa in the year 2000.  Our founder, Michael Miller, had moved to Honduras full-time in 1998 to work for another organization. But in October 1998, Hurricane Mitch devastated this Central American country. Michael immediately found himself with a new role in Tegucigalpa: helping a community of 165 families rebuild their lives in the Villa Linda Miller community six miles outside of the city of Tegucigalpa. 

Throughout the process of building this new community, God placed a call on Michael’s heart to  create a home for homeless youth. He and his teammate Aminah (Al-Attas) Bradford worked to build a team of supporters and a plan for a new ministry, focused on giving street-connected youth a family environment in a setting where they could be discipled and take time to heal.  At the end of 1999, we purchased a home in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of downtown Tegucigalpa, just a short walk from the central plaza of the city.  The first group of boys moved into the Micah House in January 2000.  Click here to read our very first update after opening the doors of the Micah House!

Of that initial group, four young men graduated from high school in 2004.  For many organizations, that is where their services end and their kids are forced to figure out once more how to survive on their own.  For Micah, though, graduating from high school is just the beginning!  In 2003, we opened our second home, The Leadership House (since re-named The Timothy House) as a place for our high school grads to continue to receive the education, discipleship, and mentorship they need to flourish as young adults.  Just blocks from the Micah House in downtown Tegucigalpa, this program became an important stepping stone towards adulthood for our young men.

The Micah Project’s programs continued to mature in that first decade of ministry.  This was in big part thanks to our Honduran staff and U.S. missionaries who invested so much into Micah and into our young men.  Roger, Ana, Aida, Wendy were our original Honduran staff who are still a part of Micah to this day.  Matt and Amy Darr, Erin (MacLean) Hale, Becca (Hogan) Woods, Lauri (Deniakos) Henderson, Jeremy Tolleson, Dan and Kamia Paul, Brian and Natasha Wiggs, and Rebecca (Haver) Bell were some  of the missionaries who dedicated years of their lives to the Micah Project during those first ten years.