New at the City of Refuge: Welding School, Grocery Store, and Housing

The City of Refuge in Honduras keeps growing. Three recent additions show how the ministry’s vision reaches beyond the children who live there and into the whole surrounding community.

First, a welding school. Trade education has always been part of IMI’s approach, because a marketable skill breaks the cycle of poverty in a way handouts never can. The new welding school gives young people and community members a trade they can build a livelihood on.

Second, housing for those in extreme poverty. Families in the area who have nowhere adequate to live now have a place at the City of Refuge’s doorstep, an extension of the same care that shelters the 90 children who call the campus home.

Third, a grocery store. Like the farm, the feed mill, and the other enterprises at the City of Refuge, the store serves the community while generating income that feeds back into the ministry, part of the self-sustaining model that makes the whole campus work.

With 100 staff and more than 80 buildings, the City of Refuge near Comayagua has become the prototype IMI hopes to repeat around the world. These three additions are the latest proof that a city set on a hill cannot be hidden (Matthew 5:14).