In 1990, a quiet, God-sized dream took root in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Marvina Hooper imagined a house with many rooms.
A place where families who had traveled for days to reach the hospital could find rest, safety, and dignity.
For years, the dream waited. Then one sentence in a book she was reading pierced her heart:
“What dream has God given you that you could never achieve unless God does it through you?”
She knew instantly. This dream would only live if God built it.
A year later, in 2014, Casa David opened its doors.
One of the first nights, a mother arrived exhausted, carrying everything she owned in a small bag. She had been sleeping outside the hospital, afraid and unsure where she and her child would rest. That night, she was handed a plate of warm food, shown to a clean bed, and told softly, “You are safe here.” She wept—not because everything was suddenly fixed, but because for the first time in days, she was not alone.
And God wasn’t finished.
In 2017, Casa David opened a second home in San Pedro Sula. In 2021, in the middle of a global pandemic, a third house opened in Antigua, Guatemala—proof that even in uncertainty, God still makes room.
Today, more than 51,000 guests across Honduras and Guatemala have found shelter, nourishment, prayer, and hope at Casa David. What began as one woman’s yes has become thousands of answered prayers—and the story is still being written, one open door at a time.
Over 12 YEARS and more than
51,151 lives impacted!
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