Mike Clark's Daily Blog
#198 our story
I made radio shows. Dottie and the women took Lizzi and Amber out to dinner. School begins Monday & hopefully all we have left to purchase are socks for the Our church on our property is doing very well and is growing. It is called The Mountain of…
#197 our story
Bob took Oscar with him for a 4 day trip to Mexico so that Bob could get his passport stamped. Jeremy & his team left just as his wife, Amy, arrived for a week. Our older boys still living here at a soccer game in San Bartolome’ against…
#196 our story
We had a video conference call with our board members. The main topic was the web site. The Oklahoma team is working on plumbing issues. May 5, 2000: The Arch Bishop sent us a young girl who had been raped by an uncle. Two days later he sent a…
# 195 our story
Jessica is cooking dinner for a different dorm each night. All of the children have now moved to their new dorms. One teen had to go into surgery for a biopsy on his neck. Four siblings went to the funeral of their father who passed away yesterday. The…
# 194 our story
It could not have happened at a worse time! We had to hire professionals to try and find the problem with the plumbing underground in Vencedores but they fixed it. We are having to purchase a new pump and have all of the pipes pulled up from the…
#193 our story
We have a major problem with the plumbing in Vencedores. The Oklahoma team is helping Felipe with it. We worked all day and could not fix it. We will call Rotor-ruta. January 27th: Steve and Pam had a baby boy. A Korean factory about 5 miles from…
# 192 our story
What a wonderful way to start 2019. Don & Lizzi arrived to become house parents for Vencedores(boys) while Georgie returned to take the university girls. Ezdras & Estefany moved to Doncillas(girls) while Billy and Olga moved to the transition house. The fireworks last night at midnight seemed to…
# 191 our story
The new house parents, Don & Lizzi, as well as Georgie arrived today so we are so blessed. We are richer than we think! We are more blessed than we know! We have more than we realize! Dottie and I wish you the best of Christ in 2019.…
# 190 our story
Jeremy preached in my place and laid out the plan of salvation perfectly. October 1,1999 The hospital diagnosed Ignacia as having a blocked kidney so treatment was finely begun. 4th: Ignacia had her surgery. They removed a kidney. She will have spent 30 days in the hospital…
#189 our story
Jeremy and the Oklahoma team missed their flight so arrived today as did Mike and Jessica from Texas. Fernando & Anna bought a new house & they took all of their girls from Esperanza to see it. Mynor & I worked on a power point in case we…
#188 Our story
Cristine arrived and immediately went shopping for the Oklahoma team arriving Friday. Everyone seems to be helping in conserving water since we are operating on one well. The holidays have kept the well digging company from coming out. We finished the home for the pastor. You will remember…
# 187 our story
You may remember Debbie’s sister, Cindy, had a son who shot himself accidently recently. His jaw is still wired. Now they have discovered that Cindy’s husband, Brian, has cancer. They asked for prayer. Today was visiting day for the parents who have permission to see their children. We…
# 186 our story
The year has flown by. We are purchasing school supplies, texts and uniforms as we as hiring some new teachers. This is an exhausting time as preparing and presenting Christmas gifts, special meals, all night New Year’s celebration & now moving children to different dorms and the beginning…
# 185 our story
The children ate tamales or turkey at midnight & then set off fireworks. So they had breakfast in their dorms A dozen or so teens ate in our home at midnight. Some of the kids went to bed at 4am. I wore ear plugs so slept through it all.…
# 184 our story
Communion last night was special as over a dozen children gave their lives to Jesus. The New Year, 1999, began with a wonderful blessing as Anita led her father to the Lord. Then Jim from Rotary International providing $43,000 to equip the new kitchen. The police…
# 183 our story
The weather is very cold. This morning I shared with the children on the theme of The Lord’s Supper and then in the evening we celebrated the Lord’s Supper. One of our social workers arranged for a group of her friends to come and provide tamales and drinks…
# 182 Our story
Os car had a technician out here at 5am because we have no water on the back property. The technician says the pump needs to be replaced. That is a major job as well as very costly. September 1998: The rain water comes down our property so…
#181 Our story
Our social workers & psychologists had a special program for the children. In the evening we had the yearly Christmas dinner with all of the children ages 13 and up. There were 48 children attending tonight who had their very first Christmas in the baby dorm & are…
# 180 our story
Today we had our staff Christmas party with games and food. There are over 100 staff members so it is a testimony to God’s love. Grizelda, age 13, a dialysis patient arrived & is so happy. She is on hemo-dialysis. May 30th, 1998 we were able to…
# 179 our story
Dina RN and supervisor of nurses at a cancer hospital, and Nancy(RN) and a nurse in a rehab facility visited yesterday. They were raised at Casa and have done remarkably well. We gave out the gifts to the younger dorms. Gladys worked all year & it was over…