Casa Aleluya Blog

Mike Clark's Daily Blog

Thank you

As is true all over the world gasoline is over $4 here and food is rising. I want to thank you for remembering us with your giving. Some members of my board will come for a meeting this weekend. They cannot all come but we will have a…

Honor your parents

Ihave been teaching on Sunday mornings the Ten Commandments and today was "Honor your Parents". It was a real challenge because God did not say just good parents but abusive parents also. I preached on the fifth command to "Honor your mother and father" and the response by…

Lungs

The child with the birth defect has not had surgery yet. The problem is that his intestines are pushing up on his lungs. The physicians want to make sure exactly what needs to be done before performing surgery. Pray for them to have wisdom. Adam and Vilma brought…

Optometrist

We received four children who were found alone in their house. They were ages 2, 5, 10 and eleven and were alone and never in school. Dr. Mike Toups from The Woodlands, Texas has come to Casa yearly for over 20 years examining every child and staff member.…

Birth defect

The child who was scheduled for surgery has been too ill to go forth with that surgery. In fact Josue' was called by the hospital to go sign papers because the child was born with the disease. Josue' has talked with the judge so they will understand this…

Still a problem

The technician who has been working on our generators could not repair them. Adam came and he was stuck also. Tim gave me the name of the person from the USA who was the one who set everything up originally. Oscar has made contact with another technician. The…

Preaching

As I continue to make radio tapes I have learned so much. I have been teaching on an overview of each book in the Bible and have gone from Genesis to where today I am in the book of Luke. We are still not able to get the…

Precious little girl

We received a little girl who had been sexually abused and described it to Josue' in detail. She could not remember the last time she bathed or had eaten. The situation in Ukraine will have effects around the world so Christians need to pray. One of our younger…

Josue’ preaching

:I had a rough night thinking about Gerson. A parent should never have to bury their child. Dottie and I had three children all born with an endocardial cushion defect. They died at 1 year, 9 years and 2 days. Since Casa began we have buried over 30…

Gerson

A few years ago one of our older boys graduated from high school. He did not want to attend college so he left Casa. A few months later he was shot to death in the streets in a drive by. He had an older brother who was a…

Generator

We had a technician working on our generators the last two days without him being able to repair them as yet. One generator provides electricity for water for all the property while the second generator provides electricity for the baby dorm, medical clinic, the dialysis unit, the offices…

Bus danger

All of our staff had to take specimens and blood tests as we do every year for the health department so as to be certified. Our vice-principal in our school was assaulted and robbed on a bus. Two weeks ago Tatiana was robbed on the bus as she…

Praying together

Quique had his cast on his broken arm removed so he is more comfortable. With all the children out of quarantine the afternoons are filled with laughter and joy as the siblings are together in the afternoon. Changes are all around us as the pandemic continues, people are…

Upgrades

William, one of our college students, planted flowers for Kate in front of her office at the school. Georgie had another birthday party for Michelle with pizza. Heidy's dorm, Cometas, of little boys received new sofas and chairs.

Michelle

Today was Michelle's 28th birthday. She is our adopted special needs child. It is unbelievable that it has been so many years. One of the younger boys broke his arm while playing soccer. It was a great day today as the children were all outside playing as there…

Fellowshp

It was so cold during our church services this morning. It was heavy winds and sprinkling. All of the Americans and a number of the Guatemalan staff eat lunch each Sunday with Dottie and myself and it is the time we can fellowship.

So sweet!!

Hearts of Christ! One of the older girl's mom needs eye surgery and the girls in that dorm gave their sponsor money to help pay for it. True sisters!! I spent this morning making teaching tapes. I love to teach in English. Thank the Lord we have no…

Technician

Oscar did get a technician for the generators and we have to buy parts to repair them so pray that we can get the parts quickly. A boy had high fever last night on the first day we let everyone out of quarantine but he tested negative…

School

There are no more children with Covid on campus so no quarantine which allowed Billy to open the school for remote learning. We still have no idea when the teachers will be allowed on campus. "Having somewhere to go is HOME. Having someone to love is FAMILY. Having…

Earthquake

We had a 6.8 earthquake at 1:30 this morning. A woman was killed in Mixco only a few miles from us. Another man died only 40 miles from us. Our generators would not come on so that affected our water wells, baby dorm, kitchen and dialysis. Oscar is…