Roosters rather than alarm clocks awoke a team of COBA students in their week of service learning in the Honduran mountains.

In January, eight business and journalism students teamed up with Professor Monty Lynn (COBA) and Adjunct Professor Joyce Haley (Journalism and Mass Communication) and applied their business and advertising skills to aid a Christian development organization in southern region Honduras.

Students prepared a promotional video, brochure, and fund raising plan for Mission Lazarus Church of Christ affiliated organization in Honduras.  Operating in Chouleteca and San Marcos de Colon, Mission Lazarus offers a holistic spectrum of development assistance.

Founded by COBA alumnus Jarrod Brown (’99), the organization operates four early childhood schools and offers vocational woodworking and sewing education for older students.  Allison, Jarrod’s wife, oversees a medical and nutritional clinic which includes special projects like providing families with a chicken and feed to diversify their diets with protein.

Mission Lazarus is currently constructing a 700 acre working ranch for orphaned and abandoned children which will include a coffee plantation and dairy farm.

Because of the trip’s brevity, students logged long hours from early morning until late night, videoing and interviewing Hondurans who have been benefited by the ministry.  They worked late into the night editing and doing creative analysis on promotional materials and in producing a plan for using those materials.

The students are putting the final touches on the video and have been invited to present their work in chapel at ACU February 27.