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Vladimir
Every time there are demonstrations against the government I think of the people who have to get to hospitals & other critical appointments. Highway blockades do nothing to harm the government. They just hurt the average citizen. The children began end-of-the-semester tests today. Dottie needs surgery in only…
God is in control
We left at 6am for an 8am eye appointment for Dottie & left the doctor’s office at 6:15pm & got home at 7:30pm making it an 13 hour day. The surgery will be Thursday. All cities will blockade highways Tuesday in protest against the President. So the doctor…
Temptation
Dottie has her eye appointment Monday to determine when the surgeries will be. I preached today out of II Samuel 16 on a scripture I have never preached & have never heard preached. I read this somewhere back in the early 1980s. Satan provides the test. You perform…
Who I am
We baptized 30 teenagers & children. Gladys baptized the girls & Ezdras the boys. I have had weight trouble so had a complete liver workup today & waiting for the results. I Corinthians 15:10, “By the grace of God I am who I am”. This has been one…
Faithfulness
I worked on lessons on relationships for the teens as well as continuing to hold marriage counseling classes each Monday evening. Dottie & I walked through the Casa Para Antoni to pray & make notes of what needs to be done since we have teams coming Saturday &…
Heaven or Earth
Amazingly Guatemala has the lowest divorce rate in the world. Of course, like all countries many couples never marry. Aroldo will take 3 of our workers to a conference tomorrow on treating kidney transplant patients. Paul had a tough time as stated in Philippians 1 as to…
Miracles
There was a banking meeting for busnesses & ministries across the area to explain how the government can access our banking files. Also the dollar took another major hit today. There was a terrible situation in San Lucas & traffic as stalled for nearly 5 hours. I fell…
Miracles
Sebastian & I met with Dr. Lou & his team to sign an agreement for the future when we are in the financial position to open the Casa Para Antoni. We will continue as we are for the time being with the ten children we now have in dialysis.…
Happy
Tim & Beth Haney have been very faithful to Casa for years & Tuesday night he will have spinal surgery so we are asking everyone to take a moment & pray. Ezdras & Gladys have been preparing the older children for water baptism this Saturday. Kids praisingPsalm 146:5…
One hand
Raquel graduated in Forensic Criminology. I will begin this week teaching the teenagers about relationships. Some folks try to hold on to God with one hand and sin with the other. That is impossible to do. Matthew 6:24 says that we cannot serve God and Satan at…
Faint Not
Raquel graduated from college today. She is the first in her family & I am so proud of her. She has been a wonderful daughter. There are days where I feel like the world crashed in on me and Friday was that day. It was one major problem…
Little Things
We will be at Lakeview Springs Baptist in Cave Springs, Arkansas on Sunday morning September 17th so we can minister anywhere on the Wednesday before & after as we travel as well as the evening of the 17th if near Fayetteville. If I could get my children to…
Choice
A marvelous thing that has happened is that a handful of children who have left Casa sponsor children at Casa. Estela is in Tennessee & Helen is in New York while Carlos is here in Guatemala & they all sponsor children or dorms. Giving back is so critical…
Support #2
Mother's Day (Guatemala) was calm & passed without incident. I bought Dottie a muzzle for Mother's Day. She used it on one of the Doberman dogs. The three of them have been barking all night for days. Not Dottie--the Dobermans. For the first time in months the children…
Support
We have 89 children without sponsors. It only takes $40 a month to sponsor a child and prayers which are more important than the money. Since the law forbids us from posting photos it makes it more difficult for you to know what they look like. We finally are…
How not to quit #5
Wednesday is Mother's Day & the law states that mothers get a day off with pay so that affects every area of life at Casa: school, office, clinic, etc. We soon have to be paying the extra month's salary so we began working on it today. Dottie &…
How not to quit #4
A number of young people came for church today following the death of Eddy. The loss of a young person has a sobering affect on all of us. Dottie fixed gumbo which feeds a large number so it was perfect. A number of the visitors stayed and spoke…
How not to quit #3
Fernando was able to get into the data base so now Tony will be able to get new sponsor letters done which should make those sponsors very happy. The ten nurses who came brought so much for the dialysis children & everyone had a great time. Pray that…
How to not quit #2
A young man, Eddy Trujillo, who was raised at Casa passed away this week. He had kidney failure. Pray for the family please. We are desperate for a Wordpress programmer to help us with our new web site. The old one was out of date so we are…
Things to help us not quit
Pray with us about our September schedule. It is not getting filled and we do not want to go home if no one wants to hear us. We have been praying for rain & the weather is changing so God is answering our prayers. It has been a…