Mike Clark's Daily Blog
Walter
Many of you know Walter who serves Casa as director. He was returning from court with two children when he was run off the road & into a concrete and metal structure. He was taken to the hospital and although he had nothing broken he sustained a deep…
Birthday Pain
I accidentally published a blank page. I preached twice and later pain became intense. But I actually am doing well. Although I do not feel like writing a lesson. Forgive me please! Dottie always celebrates birthdays for the younger girls and today there were 12 who were…
Team players
You can see that the brace I have to wear makes me look huge. It is that time of the year when I am enrolling the university students for the next semester. The teams will have a flag football game with our kids for July 4th. The physician…
Three truths if we are to win
Walter, our general director & such a dear friend, lost his mother who passed away in California. His dad said “The angels came and she flew away”. She was a Christian so Walter will be with her again some day. He is a gift from God to Casa…
Our web page problems
A number of people have contacted Debbie or me and said they are having trouble getting on to their accounts, sponsorship, etc. This is a situation that our server is working on and assures us will be corrected in 2 to 3 weeks. I am so sorry. Another…
He arrived!
Keiser arrived! He is not 6 he is nearly 8 and the size of a 5 year old. He just ate so much when he arrived and seems to be so happy with Aroldo and the other children on dialysis. We also received 3 year old Jimena…
Never give up
The Lord sent a new baby, Anna, who is 10 months old with a mother on drugs. Little Anna looks more like a 4 month old. Another Arkansas team arrived last night & in a few hours a tam from Florida is arriving. One team is having services…
Where we are
As we end the month I want to tell you we have received a gift sufficient enough to purchase the land which we have done. Also it was enough to get us started on remodeling the dialyisis unit & converting another dorm for medical purposes. So God has…
A confession
The little boy, Keiser, pronounced Key Sir will arrive Wednesday. He is only 6 not 7. We have three teams here now from Missouri, a second group from Oklahoma, Washington State and even 3 left over from the Arkansas group last week. But Wednesday there will…
Abuse
VBS was a blessing. This is the 4th year in a row that Fellowship Ministry in Fayetteville, Arkansas has come and ministered to our children. It has been raining daily in torrents so the teams have really had to adjust. Another team from Oklahoma went with Adam for…
JonJon is here!
So many hundreds of people remember Jon Jon who was with us for years and who was so very ill. Todd and Jamie visited and fell in love with him. He was adopted and taken to the states with them & today he arrived with them. He…
Down the mountain
These sisters arrived today as did a 12 year old boy named Anderson. The girls are Maria, Dayanna and Melanie. Dr. Lou called about 7 year old dropped at his hospital who is needing dialysis but his family brought his clothes to the hospital and said they…
Keep Praying
I cannot tell you what the LSU research could mean. To discover why so many children in Guatemala have kidney disease they can provide methods of prevention, early diagnosis & education of parents. This will cut down the death rate considerably. We still are waiting for word on…
Dr Lou
We had not heard from the land's owner so I am trusting that it i due to the fact he has a large family and is speaking with each of them. I am so impatient so pray for me and him. Our daughters emailed from Lafayette that they…
Pray
I feel poorly so I did not write an update. We made an offer on the land and will know Tuesday morning their response. Astrid, age 11, physically abused arrived this afternoon. Vacation Bible school begins tonight as we have teams from Arkansas, Tennessee and Oklahoma here. I…
Can you believe for a miracle
When you read this please pray as at 10am because we will make an offer on the 1.75 acres of property behind Casa & then Tuesday I meet with Dr. Lou. We are stepping out to begin putting everything in place for an additional dozen to twenty children…
CHRISTMAS
Getting everyone together to take the Christmas photograph for this year is a challenge since we have so many children working or in college studying off campus. I do not know of any minute on any day when everyone is here at the same time. We had one…
ESTELLA’S BABY
Estella & Josue' who live in Jackson, Tn had their second child. He is Javiar and looks just like his grandPapi. Some folks asked me about having surgery here in Guatemala. My orthopedic surgeon studied here and also in Switzerland, Columbia, Brazil, Spain & Argentina. Pretty impressive!! The…
Following the crowd
I suppose that if I needed to make a voice as what is most destructive when raising teenagers I would say their tendency to follow he crowd. History tells us that one of the weakest crowd-pleasers was Pontius Pilate who, as a Roman governor, was the individual who…