Lee Short Ministries International

Lee Short Ministries International seeks to spread god's love through relief/community development, outreach, education and assistance to children in other countries. We operated children's programs and community centers in the towns of mezcales and sanvicente, mexico, three locations in the dominican republic, and one location in ansi a pitre, haiti. In mexico, we serve hot food and provide english classes taught by native english speakers to help children prepare to find jobs working in the tourist industry. We distribute school supplies and offer assistance to needy families in the surrounding community. We have a total of 120 children in these programs. We also hold special outreaches and events for the communities and have a minimum of 600 attendees for these events. We also held camp sunshine Nebraska at the community center, a children's camp which concluded with a family night attended by community members where the children sang and performed drama. Seventy-five children attended the camp and 125 attended the closing ceremony. In the dominican republic and haiti, we provide children tutoring to improve their grades in public school. We also provided food and assistance for them and their families. We have 165 children in the dr and haiti participating in these programs. In 2022, we intensified our work in developing churches and pastors to reach out from their locations and touch their communities. We hosted 150 pastors from across mexico in our mezcales community center for a four-day conference. We aided in their travel to the event, provided lodging in the center, and served meals during the event. We invited special speakers to share and encourage these pastors who had suffered during the covid 19 outbreak. We continued with regular ministerial meetings throughout the year in the bahia de banderas area, with 35-55 pastors in regular attendance. In may, we hosted a group of 36 people from guadalajara, manzanillo, and colima on their pilgrimage to pray for our region of the bahia de banderas. These community centers are open for and utilized by the local governments for meetings and clinics.