February 3 and 10
February is a special month. Dottie and I were married on the 10th of February, and we crossed the border from Mexico into Guatemala on the 3rd of February in 1989. That means we have been in Guatemala 37 years.
Sometimes I just find it difficult to realize that I am 82 years old. Dottie will be 83 on April 27. When you get my age, you think so much of the people who crossed your path throughout the years.
I went to St. Anthony´s Catholic school in Bunkie, Louisiana where the nuns were very strick but we all received such a wonderful educational foundation. Off to Bunkie high school in1957 where I spent 4 years playing football and made dozens of very close friends. Then it was Northwestern State where I would get a bachelor´s degree.
I married Dottie in 1963, and we went to California where our first baby died then back to Northwestern to get my Master´s diploma. I was blessed to work at Pinecrest which is a state school for severely retarded children. From there to the University of Florida for my Doctorate. We retuned back to Pinecrest following my graduation with my doctorate. Our second child died.
I went into ministry and our 3rd child died. All three had a cardio-cushion heart defect so in time we adopted 9 children.
I came to Guatemala on a mission trip with Charles Rogers where for the last 37 years I have lived a dream life with over 6000 children.
I cannot begin to thank God enough and the thousands of you who have helped to bring us to where we stand today. It has been a wild ride, and I pray God will begin to fill Casa with children to love. and to educate but mostly to get saved. If you are anywhere in my story I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I am going to make a little change and give you the next name but taken out of alphabetical order. “I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all People. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a SAVIOUR, which is Christ the Lord.” This is Luke 2:10-12. An angel spoke these words to shepherds in the fields outside of Bethlehem on the day Jesus was born. T
he name that Mary and Joseph gave their firstborn Son expresses His work as Savior. Jesus means “GOD IS SALVATION”. From the very beginning it was clear that His purpose was to do for us what we could not do for ourselves—deliverance from bondage to sin and death.