The ministry center in Masatepe will contain the following ministry options:
- Missionary housing
- Short Term missions teams
- Community reading room
- Bakery and coffee cafe
- Summer intern housing
- English classes center
- Internet conference center
- Developmental projects working through our ministry partners in Nicaragua and possible other ministry countries.
- Construction and rehabilitation projects.
- Evangelism opportunities.
- Orphan care and visitation.
- Community living and third world experience in the culture of Nicaragua.
- Support team to missionary personal on site.
- Exposure to ecosystems and opportunities for hands-on projects.
- Youth service camps and church camps for children.
QUALIFICATIONS
Hope House International is seeking candidates who have a working knowledge in the following areas:
- Communication
- Databases
- Business
- Marketing
- Teaching
- On-line sales
In addition, interns are required to possess the following:
- Proficiency or fluency in oral and written Spanish or the willingness to learn
- Experience in an under-resourced country
- Fluency in written and oral English
- High level of independence and initiative
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, combined with the ability to work in a loosely structured environment
- Patience and flexibility
- Experience with non-profits and/or grassroots organizations
- Passion for and strong commitment to social and economic justice
COST
Intern is responsible for his/her own living and other personal expenses (approx $600/mo), airfare, insurance coverage.
For economic context: Living with a home-stay family would cost $200 to 300 a month and include breakfast and dinner Monday through Friday. Likewise, sharing a house with other international solidarity workers should cost roughly the same. Then $250 to 300 should cover the rest of your living expenses: additional meals, public transportation, internet café, social activities, in-country travel, etc.
Intern will also be responsible for insurance protection and required to submit proof of insurance coverage prior to your arrival in Nicaragua. You may already have international coverage on your/your parent's insurance policy.
]]>- One and two week intensive bible education seminars.
- Hope House certification program in Biblical Studies. A two year program of individual and class structured learning at the seminary level learning.
- Evangelism and outreach principles.
- Teaching Pastors how to teach.
- Retreats for Pastors and spouse.
- Marriage enrichment opportunities for pastors.
- Development of Pastor associations for encouragement and forum of sharing ideas.
Our Girls of "HOPE" program will connect a donor in the U.S. with an at-risk girl in Nicaragua. This plan will have three levels of involvement dependent upon donor ability and desire. Level one (Girls of Hope) is a $30.00 per month support that will allow an at-risk girl to have the very basic needs of food. Level two (Girls of Promise) is a $60.00 per month plan that provides for education and job training as well as the components of level one. Level three plan (Girls of Excellence) is $90.00 per month which includes the above as well as provide for future assistance in the form of money management and budgeting of extra funds at her disposal. It is understood that even at this level of support the actual need per girl per month is about $150.00 - 180.00 per month to meet all of her needs in this program.
Goals:
To provide a relationally driven financial model using a blended approach:
a) individuals b) churches.
To develop long-term sustainable funding for our current partners.
To create a scalable, repeatable financial and operational model to support our at-risk girls program.
To outline a vision for individual and church partnerships with Hope House International.
To partner with Center of Faith, Hope and Love Church of Masatepe,
To create an education system within the girl's home and provide education at all school levels in order to prepare these girls with hope for the future.
To establish a self-sufficient coffee farm that will produce a sustainable funding source for the girl's home.
To build 8 other building that can house additional at-risk girls in Masatepe, Nicaragua and other parts of Latin America.
To create a bakery/coffee shop for at-risk girls to teach skills and provide opportunities for self support after leaving girls home.
]]>Believing that the Word of God should be available to all, Hope House International is committed to placing the Holy Scripture and other religious literature into the hands of school age children throughout Nicaragua and our other ministry countries.
Goals:
- Private and public schools Bible distributions.
- Community reading rooms.
- Bible classes. Learning to read and understand Holy Scripture.
- Bible-101 Basics Certification programs
- Online internet availability to Biblical links.
- Every Teacher in the Scripture program to encourage the reading of God’s word in the classroom.
- Prayer of dedications for the Bibles and those who receive them.
Hope House International is committed to economically empower Nicaraguan artisans and farmers by promoting their work and produce and helping them to connect with fair markets both in Nicaragua and internationally.
- Develop a program where Nicaraguan coffee farmers have opportunity to introduce their products in churches in the U.S.
- Promote fair trade and market value products by purchasing artisan works of art for resale in the U.S.
- Introduce opportunities for the girls at the Girls home to produce hand made products and develop opportunity to become self-supporting.
Working with our partner churches and organizations we will promote and train “best practice standards” between private and public schools in Nicaragua. We working to help them discover for themselves better ideas and processes of teaching the skills and structures that are indigenous to their culture.
- Develop a strategy of ongoing support and development of teaching ideas and models that transfer from culture to culture.
- Provide intensive evaluation and one-on-one training through the use of teacher trips.
- Provide materials and classroom aids to better equip the schools that we work with.
- Develop on-going teacher development through the use of online tools and discussion forums between U.S. teachers and partner schools.
- Provide for large group teacher events to recognize and encourage teachers in our ministry countries.
- Provide one-day seminars throughout the year for teacher development and support.
- Work in collaboration with book publishers in the U.S. to ship and produce quality books for use in our partner schools
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