Our Ministries Are World Wide
Impact Honduras
Impact Honduras is a DBA of Impact World Change, Inc., a 501 (c)(3) based in Minnesota. Impact World Change partners with missional churches and Gospel-centered ministries to mobilize support-based workers for the Great Commission. When you give, your contribution makes a difference in the life of a missionary and unreached people across the world.
Project Manuelito is a ministry to children who have lived in and on the streets of Honduras. Having been homeless as a child himself, Pastor Jorge Pinto led his church in a project to help get kids off the streets. Project Manuelito focuses on housing and caring for both girls and boys who have been abandoned by their parents and have been exposed to abuse, illness, drugs, and violence.
Project Manuelito
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
We support Project Manuelito a non-profit Christian organization, which was born with the purpose of rescuing, educating, and providing comprehensive training free of charge to boys and girls in and on the streets of Honduras.
These children are the most vulnerable people in this world, most of whom are immersed in abuse, drugs, mistreatment, abandonment, etc., and who also have unprotected social, personal, and family situations. The Manuelito Project is a Project that was born in the Evangelical Church of Holiness Love and Life of Tegucigalpa in 1999, as a vision of love that the Lord placed in Rev. Jorge Alberto Pinto Martínez, who together with his wife Marta Isabel Hernández and his children Jorge Samuel Enoc, Helga Esther and Helga Ruth, embraced with love, dedication, and sacrifice.
On October 24, 2000, the first opening meeting of the Manuelito Project was held at the facilities of the Evangelical Church of Santidad Amor y Vida, in the Bosque neighborhood.
PARTNER WITH US
Together with our ministry partners, our desire is to make the greatest IMPACT possible
We believe wholeheartedly in Kingdom collaboration. The best partnerships are those that accomplish more for the Kingdom together than they would have been able to do on their own. Each partner below brings to the partnership their core competency so that each partner’s mission is accelerated as we work together.
Juan Carlos Degrandez
Executive Director
Juan Carlos is 37 years old and was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in the same neighborhood as the Church that founded the Manuelito Project, Iglesia Santidad Amor Y Vida (Love & Life).
His father left their house when he was 8 years old. He is the youngest of four brothers, one of which has been in heaven since 2016.
He grew up going to Amor Y Vida. He went to a military school at the end of his senior year of high school in 2001. It is at this time he started volunteering with the Manuelito Project and was one of the first people to help get the kids off of the streets and into a transition house. He is now the Executive Director or Project Manuelito. Click Juan’s photo to read his full bio.