we were never alone.

As the years passed, the neighborhood in which we had our Micah House began to change as violent street gangs began to take over all urban neighborhoods in the city.  We began to go to bed to the sound of gunfire and, more than once, we woke up in the morning to find a body in the streets near the Micah House.  Additionally, our growing ministry was beginning to outgrow the space in our small, inner-city home.  In 2011, we purchased a seven-acre property directly adjacent to the Villa Linda Miller community.  Micah 2.0 was born!

We planned Micah 2.0 with the following vision:  “Micah 2.0 will be a simple yet beautiful place, with both indoor and outdoor spaces that are intentionally designed to be a platform on which everyone that enters through its gates will experience God’s love in a fresh and profound way, and will be transformed by that love to such an extent that they are motivated to ‘act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with their God (Micah 6:8).’” 

We moved into the new Micah House on the Micah 2.0 property in November 2013.  At the time, we had no idea how God would indeed use this place to transform more lives in a deeper way.  Even as Honduras changed around us, God provided us with this amazing space to help prepare our young men for a flourishing adulthood in new ways.  For example, we were able to build a vocational education program focused on carpentry and welding.  Our missionary Brian Wiggs had started a small welding and carpentry program on the roof of the old Micah House, but on our new property, we had the space to expand that program.  Even more importantly, our new property provides our young men with the space to heal and grow in a more intentional way.  

In 2015, our missionary Stephen Kusmer inaugurated the Isaiah House in the home that was the original Micah House. This was a place for older teens and young men in their twenties to receive the support they needed to leave life on the streets. They received emotional support, spiritual counseling, and skill-training while they transitioned from living on the streets to a more productive, wholesome future.