What would you have done? The little boy showed up outside with a small bag of clothes and no options.

Like so many other children in Honduras and around the world, a mindset of poverty filled his whole life. He was incredibly poor, his mother was abusive, and his future looked bleak.

The welcoming front door of Casa de Girasol.

But little 7-year-old Abraham had seen something different when he came to the church and mission house run by MV missionaries Elvis and Salma García. He had seen hope. He first approached them to help him buy notebooks for school.

“He vomited many times because he had not eaten anything,” Salma remembers, “but we gave him milk and food at the mission house.”

The following week, Abraham came back and asked if he could live at the Sunflower House. They originally thought the house would be a home for girls only, but God changed their plans that day.

Elvis and Salma navigated the tricky relationship with Abraham’s abusive mother, and he came to live at the house. He learned more about God, gave his life to Christ, and understood true hope for the first time.

Today the Sunflower House has seven children, three girls and four boys, and a house mother who has helped them become a blended family.

They all attend school, are believers in Jesus, and have been set free from the mindset of poverty that is so prevalent around them. Elvis became a father figure for Abraham, training him in animal husbandry and care of the cows, pigs, and chickens that help support the home.

Abraham is now 17 and will graduate next year, living on his own and beginning his adult life–a very different life than the one before him 10 years ago.

“We have cried, but we have also prayed. And we have seen the hand of God work in our favor.”

Salma García

This is where ministry often begins – an act of compassion for a broken child and the faith for a different future. This is where the light breaks through.