Our inspiration: a university community in chaos and decline has been transformed.

From despair to hope at CURN, the National University of the North in Honduras:

The changes at CURN are dramatic. The violence, graffiti, AIDS, and student strikes so prevalent in the past are now nearly non-existent.

The story of this change and the birth of Professionals to the World

May 1999: Ministerio Renuevo (Renewal Ministry) is established on the campus of CURN, the largest Communist university in Honduras by José Luis Ordóñez, CURN faculty member.

Jan 2003: Ministerio Renuevo is given responsibility for matriculating all new students at CURN: ~ 4,000 yearly.

Jan 2004: The president of CURN and the rector of all the national universities in Honduras approve the building of a conference center on campus where students can attend seminars and receive career and life counseling. A friendship is started between Dr. John Potts, PTTW’s future executive director, and Mr. Ordóñez.

June 2004: Professionals in the United States raise funds, and the conference center, called The Center for Integral Formation (CIF), is constructed.

Sept 2004: First seminar presented by a professional from the USA.

Mar 2005: First team of professionals present seminars to over 1,000 students at four universities, a private high school, and a bi-lingual school.

Sept 2005: PTTW leads a leadership retreat (seventy Ministerio Renuevo students).

Dec 2005: Professionals from San Diego donate twenty computers to CURN and Ministerio Renuevo.

Jan 2006: PTTW is incorporated as a registered nonprofit in the United States to continue the successful work at CURN and apply the principles learned there in other universities.

Mar 2006: Two groups of USA professionals teach at six public and two private Honduran universities, two trade schools, two prisons, and a hospital.

We have continued to travel every year to Honduras in March and September as well as supporting student trips and retreats in January and April.  From September 2006 to March 2009 we have talked in three national universities, several private universities and presented special seminars to High School and Middle School teachers.  These conferences were presented to nearly 10,000 students and professors during this time.

The work continues. Learn more about how to join us.

UPDATE: We’re building a second Center for Integral Formation. Help us invest in transformation!