Mike Clark's Daily Blog
Who can I blame?
CJ and the plumbing team is at Casa & has begun the plumbing for the dialysis construction. The Lord is so good & it is being built so quickly. The Buen Pastor boys formed a line and moved 1500 concete blocks to the third floor. Dottie spoke to…
Jericho
This was the first day we were truly “down” with little to do but rest. Dottie got her hair cut & I shopped for Christmas for the teens. Saturday evening Dottie will share at a women’s function at Fayette Baptist & I will share Sunday morning there. In…
Where do you live?
Tim thinks the semi-truck & trailer is near being sold. Not as much $ as I hoped but more than I had before. My LSU Tigers have 40 players on NFL tens, more than any other school, so I wonder how good we would be if they were…
Hot dogs or pizza anyone?
The W. Virginia team is cooking hot dogs for everyone this week and the N. Carolina team is giving the kids pizza. I will have to recheck sizes before giving the Christmas clothes. The service tonight at Crosspoint was well received. Picked up 7 sponsors for new children.…
Open doors continued
Jim took his level 5 girls to see War Room which everyone tells me it is one of the top Christian movies ever filmed. Josue' & Don went down the river in a "party barge" & will hook up with Debbie Tuesday. My cousin, Newton, just discovered his…
Parade
(Sending early as having so much trouble with the internet) Both boys are doing well today following surgery. Wednesday evening we will be at Crosspoint church in Madison, Alabama. The children were able to participate in the Independence parade. Our male staff went with them & there…
Don
The ministry at Word of Life was great as usual. We were able to visit with Mark, Julie & Nell. The evening at 1st Baptist was to a packed church & they were so kind to us. After services we stayed with Don & his family where there…
Patterson/Bunkie
We are in Patterson for services Sunday at 9:30 at Word of Life & then at 6pm in Bunkie at First Baptist. We stopped in Lafayette & saw our daughters Becky, Tanya & Crissy & grandchildren. Lee emailed to say the men's prayer meeting went well and also…
6 word story
Pastor David is at Casa so I know the kids are happy. The school has had a week of civic activities in spite of the problems in our village. I received a few calls about children's house names changing and if you are a sponsor of a child…
Standing
I was going to write about the students going to San Bartolome for school academic competition but that is out since the school is unable to receive them. Lee emailed & said Candy was still struggling with a severe case of strep & now Anda, their little girl…
The gap is everywhere
The queen's contest was held for Queen of Aleluya High School. We met with Kenny this morning & it has been so many years so it was a good reunion. Dottie shopped for school pants for the new boys at Casa. Our son, Chad, brought us 10 pounds…
Gap
The second floor was poured today. Cement trucks began at 4 after the initial crew set up at 3:30am. They were finished in 3 hours. The destruction to the school was complete. Totally destroyed by rioters in San Bartolome'. They also stole the computers and other things. It…
Fraud
Polling places around the country have been entered and ballots burned. Fraud is the order of the day. Our mayor race was so violent they burned part of the school & most of the ballots. No one knows who the mayor will be. Well, we are on our…
Snakes
Voting round the country has not been peaceful. Fights & threats & even deaths have happened. We had over 40 kids (young adults) vote for the first time. Adam, Chad & Jim walked them to the polls in San Bartolome' to insure their safety. 35,000 policemen & 19,000…
New Seals
Both Oscar and Analy have been able to put their college education as professionals to work. He made a site plan of 34 pages as part of the requirement for the education department and Analy wrote her first report as a social worker so they both legalized their…
To jail we go
The Guatemalan President spent the night in jail for his own safety & the assurance he would be back in court today.A new President was sworn in and immediately demanded all of the Cabinet to resign. There were 77 wiretaps implicating him. Across the country local elections are…
Leaving
As we prepare to leave for the USA I have the dates for the February trip. Our first date is Sunday, February 14th at Family Life in Lafayette, La. So everything from that day until March 9th is open. The Guatemalan congress has removed immunity for the corruption…
Social Worker
Marjorie came through her surgery very well but Luis is now experiencing problems with his catheter. He also called me a "liar" because I had said we would let him go stay overnight with his mother. But she is so poor & the area around and inside her…
Electrical Problem
We woke up to electrical problems as a wire was cut by rubbing inside the metal box. It cut off the generator to our well but Adam and Chad fixed it. Dottie & I were invited to attend an event by the mayor of San Lucas which honored…
This is awesome
Victor & Evelyn came to Casa 25 years ago. When we received the semi-truck & trailer the driver asked if we had anyone here by Victor's full name. He is married to Victor's sister and Victor has 13 other brothers and sisters. Only God! When they came face-to-face…