

Mike Clark's Daily Blog
New Dentist
The Lord sent us a new dentist for her internship. Her name is Marta. We will purchase the appliances, etc for the dialysis ministry and we will need plumbers, carpenters, seamstress and welders to prepare the building. This is the Anthony House. We are getting close Folks! We…
4th of July
We are back to normal Last week was school vacation and Monday was another holiday but now we are back to our normal routine. As I celebrate the Fourth of July I can only think that separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and…
Hector and Beatriz
Hector and Beatriz have been here many weeks helping in the baby dorm. The will be returning home this week. They have been a blessing. Ted and Lori are here for three months watching over Esperanza up. Having couples come like this is such a blessing to the…
PRAYER
The older young people leave either Saturday or Sunday after church and go to either San Bartolome' or San Lucas shopping and eating out. I peached the 10 ways to study God's Word. They are Read It, Listen to It, Learn to study It, Memorize It, Meditate on…
OTTO
Our dentist, Otto, finished his one year internship so we will await another dentist from the dental college. We received bad news today when a judge told us that they have been instructed to exhaust all means to place a child with someone in their family and not…
NUTRITIONIST
I gave my testimony to the Memphis team. Dottie is awaiting laboratory results from her medical appointment yesterday. We are blessed to have a dialysis nutritionist, Jennifer, on the team. She is a writer also and has spent time with Aroldo to see how she can help. The…
Pretzels
Adam came by with a team to play with the children for a while. Dottie had a medical appointment and checkup. The team had pizza for the university students Wednesday night. Thursday they had pretzels with older teens; crafts with the youngest.
ZOO
This is midterm so the children have the week off. I went to the neurologist yesterday. It was a good report. Just getting old! Josue, Estella, their family and Mike F. arrived Monday night. Riveroaks had a glow in the dark night with the girls. The baby dorm…
LSU
LSU won the Baseball National Championship and is the first university to win the Baseball and Basketball National Championships in the same year. We celebrated with breakfast. Now on to football! One team had water balloons with the toddlers; craft with Estrelitas and games and pizza with the…
MASSAGE
The rest of the Memphis team arrived. I have been feeling bad for 3 months so today our doctor took both Dottie and myself to have a massage. I hope it helps. One team went to an outreach with Hilmar and the other went to Antigua. Our math…
DUKE
The team had cheese and nachos with the Doncilla's girls and a special dinner with the university girls. Another group had crafts with the toddlers and bingo with the older boys. There is a dentist with one team so more of our children are receiving dental care. Duke…
New Bedrooms
The Texas team had a movie and popcorn for the older boys. The Oklahoma team gave gifts to Esperanza girls. Cristi & Carrie had a movie with the younger boys & crafts with the younger girls. We continue to have heavy rain. Even though I am nearly 80…
Memories
The Texas team had a movie and popcorn for the older boys. The Oklahoma team gave gifts to Esperanza girls. Cristi & Carrie had a movie with the younger boys & crafts with the younger girls. We continue to have heavy rain. Even though I am nearly 80…
Oklahoma Team
Michelle had a medical examination so Adela took her to the hospital in Guatemala City. A team from Oklahoma arrived Tuesday. We received two new children which is a special deal as we have not had but 4 new children this month. Pray that God will increase our…
My Dad
The Texas team had ice cream for the girls and popcorn and a movie for the boys. We just celebrated Father's Day and I was thinking of my Dad who passed away decades ago. I never could outgrow his love for me. I will always remember scoring a…
Balloons and Pizza
The team had water balloon wars with the older boys as well games and pizza for the older girls. They also gave out shoes to the high school girls. Last night we had an extremely strong downpour. Of course, Dottie loves the rain for her flowers. I like…
Feels like old times
The team gave gifts to the boys in Cometas and Vencedores. They also had hot dogs for them. They had gifts for the dialysis dorm. It feels like old times when we had a continued procession of teams. In July we will have one week with over 100…
Last six
Today I preached on the last 6 books in the Bible so we finished 11 sermons on the love of God found in each of the 66 books in the Bible. You can find Jesus in each and every one of the 66 books of the Bible. The…
I am so blessed
The Tennessee team left early but we have the Texas team so we feel blessed because it has been so long that we have had teams back to back since Covid. God is so good. I am so blessed to have had so many children these last 34…
Father’s Day Guatemala
We had a good rain last night. The weather in Guatemala has been different as it is almost everywhere in the world. The Tennessee team is completing their dental work with the children in the morning and spent the rest of the day playing and sharing with the…