We invite you to share a word of encouragement to our staff at Lifesong Honduras. To do so, please comment on the blog or on our Facebook wall and it will be forwarded to our staff. Thank you in advance for your kind words of support! Please enjoy this update from Lifesong Honduras/Tree of Life Ministries… For a couple of years Lifesong Honduras/Tree of Life has been qualified for the governmental licensing requirements for an elementary school and an orphanage for younger children.  Last year was the first year that we had the ‘elementary school’, which consisted of a ‘one room school’ concept with six students. This year we have more than doubled in size with 15 students, ranging from 3rd to 6th grade.  This is a slow process, as each year the goal is to add a few more children, as space and staffing allows.  Lifesong Honduras/Tree of Life is also celebrating the near … Continue reading →

We invite you to share a word of encouragement to our staff at Lifesong Honduras. To do so, please comment on the blog or on our Facebook wall and it will be forwarded to our staff. Thank you in advance for your kind words of support! Please enjoy this update from Lifesong Honduras/Tree of Life Ministries… As February started, so did a new school year. It is difficult each year to pour through the hundreds of applications, determining who has the greatest needs. How do we choose when the needs are greater than the spots available?  Especially, when we hear tragedy after tragedy faced like Nolvia, the young lady pictured.   Nolvia is from the Mosquito Coast and will be enrolled in our elementary level classes.  She has, unfortunately, witnessed her father brutally murder her mother.  What words express what she must have gone through and still be coping with.  This weighed heavy on the hearts … Continue reading →

With God’s help we desire to continue…adding to inventory, buying more products, and seeing where God is going to take this bakery. We’re just believing that God is going to grow this business for us. –Claudia, Lifesong Honduras graduate & Bakery manager Claudia, once a vulnerable child, is now a Plan Escalon graduate. Because of the education, food, vocational training and spiritual discipleship Plan Escalon provides, she was equipped to start and manage the bakery micro-business on campus. For $1 a day, a life in Honduras can be forever changed! Would you consider changing ONE future this Christmas? Escalate a Child out of Poverty in Honduras Create a Job for a Zambian Caregiver: Loan to raise chickens & Loan to buy and sell dried fish Want to see what one gift can mean? Watch the Gifts of Purpose video OR page through Lifesong’s Gifts of Purpose Online Catalog to see what impact your … Continue reading →

**New Opportunity** We invite you to share a word of encouragement to our staff at Lifesong Honduras. To do so, please comment on this post or on our Facebook wall and it will be forwarded to our staff. Thank you in advance for your kind words of support!   Please enjoy this update from Tree of Life/Lifesong Honduras…    “What an inspiration it was for the leaders at Tree of Life as we watched 123 students graduate this past November.  As part of the ceremony the students shared their future aspirations and what they planned on studying in college.  With memories of their acceptance interviews ever fresh in our minds, it was a blessing to hear how far they had come.  For many of them, going to Junior High was quite an accomplishment, let alone finishing High School with a career degree. (Keep in mind that a High School education is considered a big accomplishment in this culture, as … Continue reading →

We invite you to share a word of encouragement to our staff at Lifesong Honduras. To do so, please reply to this email or comment on our Facebook wall and it will be forwarded to our staff. Thank you in advance for your kind words of support! Please enjoy this update from Tree of Life/Lifesong Honduras… “September marked the final stretch of the school year at Plan Escalon.  As the month started everyone busy with exams and then prepared for their last visit home before the final marking period.  Their final responsibility before leaving was to participate in the Independence Day Parade.     The students and marching band were diligent in practicing their marching skills and songs days before the Parade. The honor students marched together wearing ribbons, a group of young ladies wore the names of each of the countries ‘districts’, and yet another group dressed in the culture’s dance … Continue reading →

It’s official! The ‘extreme makeover’ has begun for Tree of Life/Lifesong Honduras’ new Multi-Purpose Building! This new building will be used as the primary assembly space, dining hall as well as gymnasium for our 550 students and staff. Our staff in-country are diligently posting day-by-day updates of the construction progress and we invite you to join in the journey! Simply click here to keep track of Lifesong Honduras’ new makeover and look for updates on Lifesong’s Facebook Page. We hope that you will join us in prayer for the safety of the workers, wisdom of the staff, and the future impact this project will have on our students!  The progress so far…    Last worship service in the tent  The tent coming down   Old foundation removed New space beginning to form! For more day-to-day updates…click here.

**New Opportunity** We invite you to share a word of encouragement to our staff at Lifesong Honduras. To do so, please comment on this post or on our Facebook wall and it will be forwarded to our staff. Thank you in advance for your kind words of support!  “The corporate business world has expressed that no other institution delivers students that have the capacity that Plan Escalon (students) have.”  –Lourdes, Plan Escalon Computer Instructor  Please enjoy this update from Plan Escalon/Lifesong Honduras showing the dramatic impact technology has had in our school… Thanks to each of you and especially Retail ROI for taking our school’s technology to a new level.  It is our prayer that with the knowledge they receive, our students will change their nation. This video is proof of your labor, prayers and gifts.     Please continue to pray that God would continue to work in each heart of our students and graduates at Plan Escalon/Lifesong … Continue reading →