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Tim & Beth Haney have been very faithful to Casa for years & Tuesday night he will have spinal surgery so we are asking everyone to take a moment & pray. Ezdras & Gladys have been preparing the older children for water baptism this Saturday. Kids praisingPsalm 146:5…

One hand

Raquel graduated in Forensic Criminology. I will begin this week teaching the teenagers about relationships. Some folks try to hold on to God with one hand and sin with the other. That is impossible to do. Matthew 6:24 says that we cannot serve God and Satan at…

Faint Not

Raquel graduated from college today. She is the first in her family & I am so proud of her. She has been a wonderful daughter. There are days where I feel like the world crashed in on me and Friday was that day. It was one major problem…

Little Things

We will be at Lakeview Springs Baptist in Cave Springs, Arkansas on Sunday morning September 17th so we can minister anywhere on the Wednesday before & after as we travel as well as the evening of the 17th if near Fayetteville. If I could get my children to…

Choice

A marvelous thing that has happened is that a handful of children who have left Casa sponsor children at Casa. Estela is in Tennessee & Helen is in New York while Carlos is here in Guatemala & they all sponsor children or dorms. Giving back is so critical…

Support #2

Mother's Day (Guatemala) was calm & passed without incident. I bought Dottie a muzzle for Mother's Day. She used it on one of the Doberman dogs. The three of them have been barking all night for days. Not Dottie--the Dobermans. For the first time in months the children…

Support

We have 89 children without sponsors. It only takes $40 a month to sponsor a child and prayers which are more important than the money. Since the law forbids us from posting photos it makes it more difficult for you to know what they look like. We finally are…

How not to quit #5

Wednesday is Mother's Day & the law states that mothers get a day off with pay so that affects every area of life at Casa: school, office, clinic, etc. We soon have to be paying the extra month's salary so we began working on it today. Dottie &…

How not to quit #4

A number of young people came for church today following the death of Eddy. The loss of a young person has a sobering affect on all of us. Dottie fixed gumbo which feeds a large number so it was perfect. A number of the visitors stayed and spoke…

How not to quit #3

Fernando was able to get into the data base so now Tony will be able to get new sponsor letters done which should make those sponsors very happy. The ten nurses who came brought so much for the dialysis children & everyone had a great time. Pray that…

How to not quit #2

A young man, Eddy Trujillo, who was raised at Casa passed away this week. He had kidney failure. Pray for the family please. We are desperate for a Wordpress programmer to help us with our new web site. The old one was out of date so we are…

Things to help us not quit

Pray with us about our September schedule. It is not getting filled and we do not want to go home if no one wants to hear us. We have been praying for rain & the weather is changing so God is answering our prayers. It has been a…

Do not quit

We have 10 nurses coming Saturday from the dialysis unit in the city to host a party for the children in dialysis here. We need to hire 2 to help Aroldo. Joshua 1 tells us to be strong and courageous because God is with you. In fact he…

Never give up

Everyone settled into the work day after a holiday yesterday. Duke and James continue to do maintenance especially in the area of plumbing. There were more court hearings today.They seem to never stop. Winston Churchill was speaking at Harrow School in London when his entire speech…

John the Baptist #3

We celebrated Alex, Analy and Celia's birthday with a lunch and a coca cola cake made by Dottie. Today is a national holiday so our old children had to fill in for our regular cooks, laundry, baby dorm, etc. In Jesus answer to John the Baptist when John…

John the Baptist #2

Woke up with no worries about the water. Great way to end the month. Today was visiting day so we had many happy and many sad children. The young lady who lost an arm and both legs passed away. We read from Mark 6 yesterday where John…

John #1

The water well people were a little late getting here but they were able to have us wet by 7pm. The Doncillas girls were so kind as they gave me their sponsor gifts to help pay for the new motor & pump. Our kids have so little but have…

Rain falls

For your information we will continue to build the dialysis dorm but opening it will be delayed. The commercial washer/dryer, increased expenses & now the need to pull up the pipes, add pipes and put in a new motor & pump on our well is depleting our finances.…

Do it myself

The reason the dollar is falling according to our banker is Trump’s deportation threats & Guatemalans in the USA are bailing out. Makes sense! I bought Dottie a sofa and a love seat for her birthday. She still needs love at 74. We are open on Wednesday Sept…