Greg and Kellie took all of the administration staff out to lunch. Today is The Day of Friendship in Guatemala so the children are exchanging cards and hopefully doing kind things for one another. Dottie spoke with Gladys and she said that Michelle is having far more seizures…

We shopped for vitamins and food that we cannot purchase in Guatemala. We received a new girl today. I am grateful that the courts are sending us children 1/14. The electricity went off at noon and did not come back on until after midnight. This slowed the…

We are in Alexandria and we were just contacted that Francis Todd, another old friend, passed away. We send our love and prayers to his wife Judy. The courts sent home one of our best and oldest teenage girls. She had the opportunity for a future so we…

Jim preached for me yesterday in Guatemala. During the night we received a new 16 year-old girl. We drove from DeQueen, Ar to Fayetteville in a driving rain storm. But we arrived and immediately went to see Linda in the living facility. We spent the night with our…

56 years ago today Dottie and I were married in her living room with her parents, my father, Dottie’s sister & brother-in-law. I cannot imagine where all the years have gone. We arrived last Monday to 84 degree weather and now it is in the 30s in N.…

Dr. Jalali, dentist, came to Casa with Paul M. to check teeth. So many of our children have bad teeth. One of the teenage girls had to be taken to the hospital & Josue’ has asked that everyone please pray for her. We had dinner with Dr. Hines…

Pastor Perry of Glad Tidings in Lake Charles passed away. He and his congregation had been so kind to us. “We visited with Crissy, our daughter and her family. So we drove to my hometown of Bunkie where we will visit with Dr. Hines Saturday. Of course it…

We left Baton Rouge and drove to see my other sister, Charlotte and husband Wayne, in Opelousas. It is hard to believe that we three siblings are 75, 74 and 71 years old. We will be sharing at Bayou Rouge Baptist Church in Evergreen, La. this Sunday as…

Josue’ began paying the university tuition for February. The water pump has finally been fixed. Greg and Kellie have jumped in and will be giving days of relief to the dorm parents. The first couple to be blessed was Fernando and Anna in Esperanza down. We did some…

With the many years of traveling this was our first time where we had a flight cancelled. So we had to stay overnight in Houston. Today we went to Lake Charles and then to Baton Rouge to see my sister, Virginia. You will not believe this but the…

I met with Josue’, Billy & Sebastian. Josue’ took us to the airport. Due to the late flight we arrive in Lake Charles at 10:30pm. I was reading Psalms today & in 105:5 God says to remember His works. Realizing that we just celebrated our 30thyear in Guatemala…

The team had a birthday party for all of the girls in Estrelitas, Esperanza, Doncillas and the university dorm. Dottie and I packed & gave instructions to various workers. Dottie has 7 boys who help her in her garden. Greg & Kellie arrived  from Nevada. I shared with…

Sunday, February 10th, is our 56thwedding anniversary and I cannot think of a better way to celebrate it than preaching in a church that is less than 4 miles from where I was raised. We will be at Bayou Baptist in Evergreen, La. at 11am. The team fed…

Our staff and the visitors have worked so hard to get the apartments in good shape for Greg and Kellie. But the volcano Fuego that had erupted only a few months ago began spewing ash so some airlines refused to fly into Guatemala. American Airlines did not come…

The teams worked so hard. They painted, cleaned and fixed up the apartment. Some of them raked leaves and helped Dottie. Christine and Oscar continue to buy the items we need for the new apartment. I gave my testimony to the groups. Greg and Kellie did not arrive…

We had visitation for the parents in the morning so Bible was in the evening. Our boys are in a soccer league in the afternoon but they (the league officials)were kind enough to play in the morning so as not to affect our boys having church. One of…