Chris & Heidy are here from Oklahoma & she will do root canals this week on a couple of kids. A dental team is here but will go out to villages everyday to work. Tim & Patty are taking the week off to relax. I made radio shows…

Our daughter, Crissy, and grandson, Ozzie, left for Houston this morning. They were here 3 weeks & that was the best Father's Day gift I could have received. Tanya, other daughter, and my grand children are still here for another week. Compassion is not passive. It is active.…

Eight years after proposing marriage and being accepted by Flor, Edvin finally went through with it and the civil marriage was performed by the mayor here at Casa in front of all of the children and visitors. It is never too late. And it was beautiful!! Laura finished…

We finished the cleaning & organizing of my books. One team went out to a block party. We will be in Sylacauga, Al on Sunday, September 27th & are free to minister that evening. A person with a faithful heart is not double minded. He is steadfast,…

The biopsy on Karen's kidney was not difficult but we have to wait until Monday for the results. The team helped lean my bookshelves and rearrange thousands of books & hundreds of photographs. I gave our testimony to the 3 teams visiting this week. Not only is…

I felt so week this morning but what I had to teach was what I knew God wanted me to  do. So I shared first in Spanish with the children & then with the visitors in English in a second teaching. Returning to my house I immediately was…

Eric 1 and Midalis left Casa a few years ago, married & had 3 children. Today their 3 month old died. Pray for them. The physician told me that I have to cut my stress in half. I took a load when I said we would have the…

Dr Don Hines is here working with our nurses and especially with Josue' in Telemedicine. I am feeling better over the last few days since removing so much pain medication. Teams are working hard to get the new dorm prepared for visitors. The rains have been too often…

Jose’ did well in surgery & then we had another emergency and had to rush Luis, also in dialysis, to the hospital. Four hours later they said it was gastritis so we are relieved. A number of police came today & gave our kids a really informative demonstration…

The child, Jose, with Fancona anemia is having a blood transplant today and will have to take even more medication. Jose, dialysis, surgery was cancelled because his blood count is too low. He, too, will have a blood transfusion and surgery later. Marjorie came home from the hospital…

There were no blockades this morning so Dottie and I were able to get back home without much trouble. Steve O. came to get the back hoe we were holding for him. Our boys, 98% of them at least, were cheering for Barcelona in the Champions League finals…

45 minutes before Dottie & I were to leave the hotel Tim called to say highways were blocked. We turned on the news & the farmers have blocked all the entrances into Guatemala City & say it will last 12 - 18 hours. The entire nation seems…

I have felt so weak for over a week & with the financial cloud, the government foolishness, the difficulty of the transition, the dialysis children being so ill & having to return to court this coming Tuesday I decided to go have my medications checked. I was overdosing…

The Huntsville team hosted a time of worship and performed 2 dramas for all of the older children. A 16 year old girl killed a cab driver as part of the initiation into a gang. She was recognized & then burned alive by her neighbors. Billy is doing…