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For Immediate Release
RE: St. Louis residents to offer help to street kids in Honduras
St. Louis residents to offer help to street kids in Honduras
September 8, 2006
Note to reporters: Four graduates of the Micah Project are now students at MBU and will be available to be interviewed, in addition to representatives from the Micah Project.
Hundreds of St. Louis residents will gather at Missouri Baptist University Sept. 22 to help change the lives of street kids living in Honduras.
In a way to help reduce the stranglehold poverty has on the children of Honduras, St. Louis residents are sponsoring a benefit concert at MBU’s Pillsbury Chapel and Dale Williams Fine Arts Center to help raise support for the Micah Project, a Christian organization located in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The Micah Project—founded by St. Louis native Michael Miller—provides a home to young men who have suffered anguished childhoods on the streets of Honduras. The home has been operational since 2000.
Specifically, the organization teaches the boys—many who were homeless and addicted to drugs—to become Christian leaders through discipleship, formal education and opportunities to serve others who are in need. Four of the graduates are MBU students.
What: Randy Mayfield with Special Guest Performers—A benefit concert for the Micah Project, a home in Honduras for young men who have suffered tormented childhoods.
Where: The Pillsbury Chapel and Dale Williams Fine Arts Center at Missouri Baptist University, located a quarter mile from the intersection of highways 270 and 40.
When: Friday, Sept. 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Why: Since 2000, a group of St. Louis residents have been intimately involved in helping to curb the alarming number of homeless children in Honduras.
Cost: Adults $5, Students, $3. For more information, call (314) 727-2777, extension 122.
The Micah Project is a non-profit organization in Tegucigalpa, Honduras that currently supports 22 young men. The boys, who spent anguished childhoods on the streets or in impoverished homes, are now learning to become Christian leaders through discipleship, formal education, and opportunities to serve others who are in need.
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