Our Ministries – Michoacan Mission
Mission
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School grounds
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School and exercise
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Foundation for His Ministry’s Morelia home for children opened its doors in April 1998. The Mission is located in one of the poorer suburbs of Morelia. Morelia is a large city, with a population of over 1 million people, about 100 miles west of Mexico City. The mission’s bright yellow building with cobalt blue and shiny green trim is home to 25 children, and has the capacity to house 30 children. The Mission also includes a guesthouse for visiting work teams and a school attended by our children, as well as children from the community.
The purpose of Foundation for His Ministry is to glorify God by making disciples of Jesus Christ. To this end, the Michoacan Mission shares and demonstrates God’s love through the power of the Holy Spirit by meeting physical, spiritual, and educational needs of the little ones in their home. Our desire is to also be God’s light outside of the Mission walls, into the surrounding community and beyond, by showing the love of Jesus Christ. It has long been a prayer, and now is becoming a reality, to have a church on our property. The land has been acquired, and the building has begun thanks to generous and faithful supporters of His Ministry in Michoacan.
Ana Laura and child at mission
Ana Laura Haire as a little girl
Ana Laura and Charla
How We Started
The seed of the Morelia Home for Children started many years ago with a woman named Ana Laura (Reyes) Haire. Ana knows first-hand what it means to be a needy child in Mexico. She was born in Morelia, Mexico and is the youngest of fourteen children. When she was only two years old, her father died and her mother was left alone to raise this very large family. Desperate and not feeling like she had other options, Ana’s mother brought her four youngest children to the children’s home in the Baja California peninsula of Mexico. For eight years, Ana lived at the ‘hogar para niños’ – the orphanage – operated by Foundation for His Ministry in Colonia Vicente Guerrero. At age ten, Ana’s mother came back to get her and sent Ana to live with her grandmother in Morelia. Hunger, poverty and minimal shelter contrasted sharply with the precious memories of life at the Baja Mission. Convinced of God’s sustaining love for her despite her circumstances, Ana Laura became a Christian at age 15. By the time she was in her early twenties, Ana felt strongly that God was calling her to build a children’s home in her hometown, a suburb of Morelia. A few years after receiving this vision from God, Ana met with a missionary in Mexico to talk about building the home. The missionary’s expertise was in starting churches, not children’s homes, but with five dollars in his pocket and a heart open to God, he said he would help. Ana’s sister donated land for the mission and with the help of generous work teams, gifted volunteers, financial supporters, and praying people, the Morelia Home for Children became a reality.
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School yard
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Map of Michoacan State
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Our Staff
Abacub Basurto Sotelo is the director of the Morelia home along with his wife, Lulu, their two daughters and a staff of 11.
Administrator Pastor Abacub Basurto and family
Steve Haire with kids at Mission
Ana Laura with kids
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