About The Organization
God led Tracy Houpt on his first mission trip to Nicaragua and Honduras in the summer of 2001. At the end of the trip, he was introduced to Dona Florinda Flores (Mama Tara) who at that time was taking care of 11 orphans at their current location in Puerto Lempira, Honduras. Immediately, God focused Tracy’s heart on the need to serve Mama Tara and the orphans in her care. At the time, Tracy did not realize what God had in store for this orphanage. He returned a year later to help Mama Tara define a plan that God had put on her heart for a new orphanage complex, the first ever in La Moskitia. A plan that they both felt God was leading them to do.
Tracy felt that God was leading him, and friends Adam Ogburn, Tom Ogburn, Lisa Neal and Nancy Smylie, to establish a non-profit organization in the USA to help generate the support needed for this mission project to be accomplished. So with advice from their friends, Dallas Nash and Daniel Pentecost, the team set out to establish MamaTara Miskito Orphanage, Inc. in the state of Georgia – this was officially accomplished in November 2002. We have received approval to operate as a 501(c)(3) from the IRS.
God does not want this mission project tied to one church or one denomination - He wants it to be an interdenominational activity. And He has and is putting a team together, both here in the USA and our missionary partners in Honduras, to accomplish what He has already planned to be done.