A Tale of Three Men
By Mike Tenbusch | September 9, 2022 Roberto Contreras grew up in a small neighborhood near San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The El Ocotillo dump reached the edge of their town and after school some of the kids would go there to pick through the mountains of garbage and see...
IntSam Scholars Take a Stand
By Mike Tenbusch | July 1, 2022 As we come together with family and friends this weekend to celebrate the courage that our founders had in 1776, our children may also want to give thanks for the wisdom of the leaders who passed laws in 1938 forbidding child labor in...
Family Matters
By Mike Tenbusch | May 6, 2022 This past Friday, our board of trustees made a huge commitment to build a “family life center” in Honduras as one of our four goals this year. We want to give our scholars a safe and nurturing place they can go to after school to be...
Letting Go of Our Nets
By Mike Tenbusch | April 8, 2022 This past Wednesday morning, I was surrounded by a room of truly amazing women while on a Zoom call with equally amazing women in Ethiopia in a quest to bring the jewelry they make to market here in the United States. It was a unique...
The Challenges of Walking Hand-in-Hand
By Mike Tenbusch | March 11, 2022 Every week, our team members in each nation have one-on-one meetings with our scholarship students or their parents to discuss their lives and their progress meeting their goals. They record highlights from these conversations (that...
Four Words that Change the World
By Mike Tenbusch | March 25, 2022 Over the last year, I have seen a profound difference get made in the world when somebody says four simple words in earnest. I shouldn’t be surprised by the impact, because these four words gave rise to International Samaritan 27...
A New Life for A Graduate
By Mike Tenbusch | February 25, 2022 When we started our strategic planning process in 2019, one of the five-year goals we set was to give our scholars the spiritual training and leadership development they need to become leaders in their communities. I’m writing...
How The 5K Saved My Life
By Mike Tenbusch | February 4, 2022 Last summer, we asked you and everyone else we know across the world to run with us in the Great IntSam Global 5K to give food to 1,000 families battling to survive the undulating challenges of this pandemic. As it turns out, one of...
Jumpstart Your Advent
By Mike Tenbusch | December 03, 2021 We’re five days into the Advent season, and it’s not too late to give yourself and your loved ones an exceptional Christmas gift this year. Let me warn you that I’m not going to encourage you to follow the crowd. If you want to...
From Searching to Serving
By Mike Tenbusch | November 26, 2021 Three years ago, Ronia Romero led the expansion of our Paso a Paso (Step by Step) scholarship program in Honduras from San Pedro Sula to Tegucigalpa. In a very short time, she has seen young people like Josue go from a daily...
Que Milagro! We Did It!
By Mike Tenbusch | November 12, 2021 The first donation I ever received was for $25. It was in 1997. It came from a friend and mentor named Dan Mulhern with a handwritten note that said, “It’s not much, but I want you to know that good things will follow when you...
From Raw Eggs to Fresh Eggs
By Mike Tenbusch | October 29, 2021 Has a movie ever changed your life? True confession #1: At the age of seven, the day after I saw Rocky for the first time, I woke up at 6:00 in the morning, drank raw eggs, and then went for a two mile run. I had a dream of...
