New Year News and Opportunities from MHI / Liberia Mission ...

Mission Honduras International

Breaking the Cycle of Poverty ... One Child at a Time

January 2010

Newsletter

Greetings!

We hope you and your family have had a blessed start to the New Year. At Mission Honduras International / Liberia Mission, we are preparing for a year of transitions and new growth. We look forward to continuing to partner with you to help break the cycle of poverty through material and spiritual support and a first-rate education.

In this issue you will find a letter of thanks from our LMI Directors, which describes Christmas and New Year's at Liberia Mission. You will also find information about exciting new opportunities, as well as other useful information. We hope you will read on. For quick links to what's in this issue, just click on the orange links to the right.

Thank you for your continued prayers and support! Together with you, we look forward to a new year of hope and a brighter future for children living in poverty.

God bless,

Bob O'Dwyer
bodwyer@missionhonduras.com, 773-809-4008
On behalf of the Board of Directors of Mission Honduras International

In This Issue

Visit Liberia Mission

LMI Comes to You

2009 Tax Info

Help for Haiti

LMI Special Video

Quick Links

Sponsor a Child Today!

Donate Online!

Greetings!

A HUGE THANKS from all the children at Liberia Mission to all the donors who helped make Christmas extra special this year! The kids were thrilled with their gifts, and your generosity made a very positive impact in their lives!

Celebrating Christmas and welcoming 2010 was a very special time here at Liberia Mission Incorporated.

This year Santa Claus came to the children here at Liberia Mission, but he looked a lot like Clarisa! She spent almost an entire week inside our storeroom arranging gifts and treats for both the boys and girls who live at the mission. Because of her love and dedication - and the kindness of donors - our children all had a very Merry Christmas morning!

We celebrated Christmas Day Mass together in Saint Michael The Archangel Catholic Church on LMI grounds. Afterward, I cooked a turkey and dressing meal and Monsignor Robert Tikpor, our mission pastor, Clarisa and I shared a wonderful Christmas meal. The children were very happy because we slaughtered a pig and our cooks made a special Christmas Day meal for them of Pepper Soup and Pork, which they all said was "SWEET!".

We all rang in the New Year by celebrating 11:00 PM Mass, which took us into our new year as we were celebrating the Eucharist. It was the first nighttime Mass our Church has ever celebrated, and the kids, although sleeeeeepy, were excited to celebrate the Mass at night. We had a tough 2009 at LMI, but God and Love have prevailed, and the children have never been happier!

We are so excited as we know our God has incredible and wondrous things planned for us in 2010. Thank all of you so much for all of your prayers and financial support. The personal emails you have sent to Clarisa and me have been the juice that has kept us going. We love you and we ask you to keep supporting LMI through your prayers and financial assistance.

We wish each and every one of you a HAPPY and BLESSED 2010!

Peace and Prayers,
Jerome and Clarisa
Directors, Liberia Mission Incorporated
Liberia, Africa

Experience Life at Liberia Mission

You are invited to experience life at Liberia Mission!
TeachPeace_Liberia Girls

This summer, you can visit and serve in Liberia, Africa. Our staff at Liberia Mission invites you to experience life in Africa. The trip is scheduled for June 28 to July 9, 2010.

Trip purpose: To raise awareness for solutions to break the cycle of poverty and make our world a better one.

You will: Share your time with war orphans and the poor children living at Liberia Mission. You will work on projects to help children to be kind and compassionate leaders working with both MHI and at least one other non-profit in Liberia. Activities include helping deliver goats and chickens to people in several villages currently struggling to feed their children. Participants will also have the option of helping disabled children live with dignity and working on life-saving projects to deliver clean drinking water.

In a sentence, you will have a life-changing experience while seeing first-hand how the cycle of poverty around the world can be solved.

For more information, call MHI board member Dave Dionisi at 530-554-7061.

Liberia Mission Comes to You!

Get to know the children of Liberia Mission - Bring Liberia Mission to your own home, parish, community!

This Fall, Liberia Mission Directors Jerome and Clarisa will be embarking on a three-month tour of the U.S. From September 1st to December 1st, they will be sharing an up-close and personal look into life in Liberia and the amazing children of Liberia Mission.

Are you interested in hosting a Liberia Mission presentation? We are currently seeking "host" homes/communities for Jerome and Clarisa's presentation! This is an amazing opportunity to really connect your parish and community to Liberia Mission!

The presentation will include: video, slide shows, letters by the children, art work, video messages from the children, a detailed explanation of day-to-day life, a brief introduction to the history of Liberia, and inspiring stories about how the mission is actually changing the direction of the country and the future for all of our children.

Interested in hosting? Contact us about scheduling a Liberia Mission presentation today!

Email Jerome directly with questions or to schedule a visit at jcabeen@missionhonduras.com. Or you can email or call Monica at mdesmond@missionhonduras.com or 773-809-4008.

2009 Tax Information

Thank you to all of you who made a donation to Mission Honduras International in 2009! Your generosity helped provide a home, food, clothing, medical care, faith formation, and a first-rate education to poor and orphaned children.

Your 2009 donation information will be mailed to you in the next couple of weeks. If we have an email address for you, it will arrive via email. If not, it will arrive via regular mail. If you have any questions, please contact us at info@missionhonduras.com or (773) 809-4008.

Thank you for your support of Mission Honduras International and Liberia Mission, Inc. We need your help in 2010 in order to continue the life-changing work of the mission. Make a Donation Today!

Prayers and Help for Haiti

As we continue to keep the people of Haiti in our hearts and in our prayers, the good folks at "Friends of the Missions, Inc." have invited us to help in a special way. Friends of the Missions is the group that sent the wonderful medical team to Liberia Mission last fall. You can read about their trip here.

Jacob Schroeder, the coordinator of the Liberia Medical Mission trip, has a friend who has a new (4 years old) clinic just 70 miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. People are fleeing the city for rural areas and are coming there for help.

If you wish to contribute money to support this clinic you can send it to Friends of the Missions - a 501(c)(3), which has no overhead - and the check amount will be forwarded to his clinic.

Friends of the Missions, Inc
275 LOCUST FENCE RD.
ST. HELENA IS, SC 29920

Thanks for your generosity and prayers for this clinic and for all the people in Haiti!