Casa Aleluya Blog

Mike Clark's Daily Blog

Everyone helping

Everyone is doing their best to care for and protect the children. We have closed the school with the exception of the college students. All meals are scheduled by dorms. Each dorm has a play area. None of the children testing positive have dangerous symptoms. Since we are…

Celia

We have one more Covid case but none of the 8 cases are severe. They are all girls and no boys. The health department has asked we quarantine everyone for 10 days. Dottie and I could not celebrate our anniversary seeing as she had a doctor's appointment. She…

Anniversary

It is so hard to believe but today Dottie and I celebrate our 59th wedding anniversary. How God reached down in Louisiana 1963 and took an unsaved Cajun and joined him with an Arkansas Christian in order to send them to Guatemala is beyond anything we could have…

Above all

We have more cases of Covid so we are shutting down school for another week. Job's friend says in Job 8:10 that "Those who forget God have no hope". When storms come in our lives in the form of illness, divorce, financial difficulties, drugs, broken homes or any…

The father

My favorite story in the Bible is where the father brings his epileptic son to the Apostles and they cannot heal him. He goes to Jesus with his request and Jesus tells him that if he can believe then all is possible. The father answers, "I believe but…

The family

II Chronicles 20:12 says "We know not what to do: but our eyes are upon thee". This is where we are. I pray that all of the staff, the children and our supporters will do exactly that for us. Lift your eyes whenever you think of us and…

College began

As we continue to pray and plan on keeping the children safe we have only one place to turn and that is to the Lord Jesus. Dottie and I listened to stories of missionaries such as Jim & Elizabeth Elliot and Ed Saint as well as sermons by…

Precautions

We received a new boy yesterday. Each dorm has a specific area where they can play or visit. So for 15 days we will monitor the children and pray for God's protection. They will eat at different times. A third child has Covid. Stand with us please. Amy…

Sponsors

We have two Covid cases so we will be locking everything down for at least 2 weeks and pray that no more children get ill. Our physician on staff here had surgery today and we are awaiting the results. I worked on the sponsor list with Mynor. If…

Nurses

Due to the weather Amy was unable to fly home to Oklahoma. Hopefully she can get a flight for Friday. We received a young boy at midnight with no shoes or warm clothing and the weather is frigid. Tatiana is doing her practice to become a hemodialysis technician…

Special Day

It was 33 years ago today that I stood on a hill in Mexico and looked down at the river border to enter Guatemala. I was scared senseless--had no faith as we drove into Guatemala to begin this journey that we are still traveling. God has blessed us…

Train up a child

The students had their first major tests of the year. The weather is still cold. Our doctor on campus will be off for a month for surgery. We are not certain on the dates. "Train up a child in the way he should go" but be sure you…

Andres and Estella

Andres and Estella moved in and now re the house parents for Vencedors. She was raised at Casa. I really think that the coldest day ever was today. Of course there is no heat in the dining hall/church so the kids wanted me to preach fast.

Costs

The first month of 2022 is at an end. Today it is raining so Dottie is pleased to have water from heaven on her plants and flowers. Prices for everything has risen. A 5 quetzal, 75 cents bus ride is now 20 quetzals. So this hits the pocket…

1884

God is so good. I spent a great portion of the day listening to sound Bible teaching. Dottie joined me for some of it. I also read a book on love by Henry Drummond published in 1884. Born in 1851and died in 1897 he was only 46 years…

Enrollment

Josue', Billy and Alex are working on getting the college students enrolled. Some of the universities require the students to attend in person while others are still on-line classes. Amy is still here for a few more days. She has been such a blessing helping with the little…

Isolation

Another of our older boys left because he just cannot handle studying collage courses on line. The isolation is mentally exhausting. This pandemic has affected our children, staff and prevented visitors from coming so it is terrible.

Teachers

I really wish I had an idea as to when we can get away from the Covid regulations. All of us miss having visitors. Visitors were such a wonderful blessing and helped us to give the kids joy and a knowledge of Christ. Hopefully we can start bringing…

I need help

We received a donation of bedding 9 sheets, etc) which greatly appreciated. Our three psychologists are orienting our older children about university life as some started this week. Most will be on-line but a few have to go in person. I was shocked when Jim told me that…

Heidy returned

I had the children pray in church for various things. One of those things was for more Americans to come. Hopefully teams can start coming soon but I was speaking about staff. Although our population is very low I believe it will rise. We will need help. Right…