Reformation Ministries International Corp

General description of the area

The Sacramento Mountain area of New Mexico is a very specialized eco-system and human habitat. The beauty and the serenity of the area is attractive to individuals and families from a broad cultural background and circumstance. There are those who live in meager conditions from the proceeds of small retirement funds, i.e. social security and private funds. There are those with young families who work at the few specialized vocational opportunities available, i.e. Postal Services, Special Delivery Ground Services, Electric Company, Phone Company, Water Company, State and Forestry Services, County Road Maintenance, Golf Coarse, Swimming pool services, Restaurants, house cleaning, Plumbing Services, Electrical Services, and some very small Construction Service Companies. There are also those who look on the area as a great place to build a second or third home, a beautiful mountain home with panoramic vistas and cool mountain breezes. These individuals are usually absentee owners with a few exceptions. The size home they usually build is from 3,000 - 10,000 square feet from a wide variety of materials and architectural designs.

The lack of local skilled labor in the area, for construction projects, creates a demand for the high-income earner to contract with out-of-state construction companies. In the last few years several homes ranging in price from $500,000-1,000,000+ dollars have been contracted with construction companies as far away as California. This need to import skilled labor from such distant locations drives the per square foot cost of construction to levels that only the upper 5% of the population can consider.

The family who builds a home in this vast mountain terrain soon finds out that building the home was only the first obstacle. The second obstacle is very much like unto the first, because it deals with the maintenance of the abode. Need I mention the fact that the same skilled labor that is required to build such a home is also needed to make major repairs or additions? The same forces that caused the owners to contract with out-of-state contractors who can bring their own skilled labor with them, now work against the new owners once the construction company goes back to their state of origin. The local home or business owner is now saddled with the difficult scenario of having needs that cannot be timely met from local sources.

A&L Ltd. Advantages

The General Partners of A&L Ltd., Zester and Marilyn Hatfield, own property in the area of the Sacramento Mountains where the Business as Mission Training Center is being planned for construction. Zester Hatfield holds a New Mexico Commercial Contractors license and has designed and built several projects in these mountains. Zester has had a vision of bible and vocational training for young men and women from Mexico and all points south of the Rio Grande for many years. It has taken much experience and considerable work to bring this great opportunity, such as is presented here, the Joint Venture relationship between A&L Ltd., a Business as Mission and RMIC an outreach missionary and ministry entity.

A&L Ltd. and RMIC working together will accomplish in this vast mountain area what no other entity or group of entities have been able to do. Through RMIC the young men and women who will form the basis for the skilled labor pool, from the vocational training acquired at the center and the construction leadership of A&L Ltd., the previous problems of the greater Sacramento Mountain area will find new solutions.

The young trainees will be able to work 20 - 30 hours per week under their student visas and will be compensated at 1.5 to 2.0 times minimum wages. From these revenues they will pay for their instruction, living and housing costs and will bank no less than 25% of their gross earnings into a capital account for their eventual return to their home communities where they will continue to receive spiritual, economic, business and personal mentoring.

In addition to having an opportunity to work with A&L Ltd. all of the young men and women will have the opportunity to find employment in areas where they can gain personal experience for later use in their home communities. With the possibility to supply skilled and semi-skilled labor form individuals of high moral and Christian integrity, there are few if any commercial outlets that would refuse them work. For example, there are many opportunities unfulfilled in areas such as lumbering, forest preservation through private companies, plus home maintenance and service jobs untold.