Encourage October

Friends,
Is very nice when you feel encourage for keep doing all the work to God is letting us to do for help all this people and kids who needs everything (from now),
Our kids finish the school from this year the last week, and now we are waiting for their calcification an see who will come to our vacation camp. But the most of them who already show us their calcification they reallya re doing great and we are very happy to God provide us the resources for take them to the camp.

NEIBORS INC.
Mark Carter and his construction team, come this month to help us to build a home in Tablitas, this is a very small and far village close to Rio Dulce, we build the Pastor Oscar Chub home and is very excited see how God use this American team and members of the village who working together make this happen.

NEW ROUTES
This we had the opportunity to help the village or Tablitas in fix and make accessible the car entry to the village, this kind of work bring develop to this parts of our country and help us to bring closer the materials for the home we made there.

VEGETABLES PROGRAM
We are learning and keep going with this project, now we are learning how to do it and looking for sponsor for can improve this in all our villages, the kids are doing well and we are improving watering, now is in standby until we get sponsor for keep going but the harvest still is going on.

CHURCH RETREAT
God let us again come with all the church to get energy and encourage for keep doing all this wonderful work he is letting us do, we have around 130 members who made again he commitment to keep doing God’s work, and believe me they really want to.  For the next year if we can get new sponsor for the kids we will open the work in the west of the country in a complete new area, please pray about it. We have a time to learn a time for the holy spirit fill us and a time for work in our place for make this better. And of course enjoy see this big turtles leading eggs in the front of our place.

Like you know now this next two month are very busy and excited with our 1600 kids, we will have our vacation camp where we will be taking 10 kids from each of the villages where God sent us to work and will bring to the camp, this is the only time and for many of the first time this kids leave their villages and come to a city, and we feel very privileges to do this for them, please pray for the successful of this camp.

And one more issue you need to pray about is our Christmas activity for December, if you are one of the sponsor of one of our kids and God put in your hearth send any extra funds for buy a Christmas gift to them please do it, we always need extra funds for give this time for this kids, they don’t receive anything else in the villages, and if you don’t are sponsor one and really like to join with us in this celebration any sponsor will be welcome.

David

A long September

Friends,
I great to see how God makes a month longer, we had many things going on in the last September a we really need more time this month and really God let us accomplish a lot for him, we really praise his name.
Well let me share how this month was,
FEEDING PROGRAM
We are in our last month of school in Guatemala, this will be the last month of this year serving breakfast every morning, in November we will have our vacation camp instead and December our Christmas activities with al our kids, but is a bless see how the most of our kids have a very high average in their school and this guarantee they will pass for the next grade.

JUNGLE KIDS
The work on the villages where God sent us to work is going very well, the kids are growing better and the love of God is giving to them, we finish the school in Agua Caliente and we have many other projects running now.

PATRICK, PAULA & JACOB
We receive the visit of the Ballad family who come to help us with the paint in our retreat center, we are remodeling this one because our Vacation camps is getting close and we really want to have in neat condition, thanks to them we did a lot

MEDICAL TEAM
This month we have again the visit of the Healing the Children team lead for the Drs. Jennifer Hoock and Theresa Wallace, both have a great heath for our country and they come to take care of the health of our kids, parents and villages, they are cover 8 of our 16 villages, if someone is interesting in help us covering the other 8 you are welcome to join with us, they really do a professional and complete job.

PIWC TEAM
This was a very slow year for teams coming to help us in our ministry, but this month we was bless with 3 of them and the Presque Isle Wesleyan Church come to visit us and work in the last touch (we hope) of our retreat center, and by the way joint with the  medical team because we are not enough, and even this bring us the idea to ask teams to join with our medical teams doing logistic work.

SEA TURTLES
Another great bless is to our teams are enjoy to see the sea turtles lead eggs in the beaches of Monte Rico, we know is not work done, but we want to share with all of you this great bless for us and for the teams.

PREGNANT WOMEN PROJECT
God let us begin to work this month with all the pregnant women, we got some prenatal vitamins and some nutritional drink and give for them, the mother dying in the childbirth and the kid to die is very high in Guatemala and even many of the kids to leave really have a very bad quality of life, they born with sever diseases, and put in our hearth begin to help the kids since the conception, in that way we will have healthier and smarter kids to grow with them, we have around 80 pregnant women distributive in the 16 villages, please if some of you feel like to help with vitamins, we have a very good price here in Guatemala, US$ 4.00 for 100 pills, please join with us for can keep this program running and we give 30 ponds (one per day) of one nutritional drink and the cost of this is US 1.00 per pound. We teach them the important to take the vitamins and the drink, they usually have many kids and they prefer to give the drink to the kids but we are encourage them to take care of the babe too, for know we are giving enough for them and the kids, but please pray we can keep doing in the same way.

VEGETABLE PROGRAM
We keep working in this program train each home begin to have their own crops and help with nutrition, check how there are doing

MARRIED RETREAT
At church God keep blessing us, we are growing faster we was planning, but this is good, we need more workers and God let us have our married retreat this month, we have 30 couples learning how God wants we do for be examples to our next generation and they have good ones for imitate, because some times is hard find examples for them.

BAPTISMS
Yes we have again baptisms, I told you and we had 18 new persons who want to show to the word their commitment to follow God and work for him, we have more of our kids getting this commitment too, maybe some of you who came one time will recognize one of this faces,

FAMINE
Like we shared with you the last month, a famine is over our country Guatemala, already hit around 6 states, but will hit more and very deep the other one the next year, the crops are extremely poor and they are harvesting just for the next 3 months but after this we will have a strong famine, our government is train to call the international help and we are praying they do it, but for our side we don’t want to be quit, our villages will be damage too, and we have a idea to share with you.  We are praying many of you can put together a team for the months of February, March, April and May of the next year, and can help us to buy food for the villages, made some bags and go home by home showing the provision of God, our people love receive people like you in their homes, and in that way we can talk with the about God too, be with them in the right moment, and if you can set a team you can send your sponsor for buy this food and give to them. Please contact us and make this happen, we still have some month to work on this. I want to share some of the faces of our kids in the villages. Help us to be close of them for a long time

David

WORK AND HOPE

Friends,
This month we really have a mix feeling: Happy and encourage with the work God is letting us to do and fair and hope for the next months in our country, a famine is coming to Guatemala.
But please let me share first, very briefly the work in August, this for have enough room for share the incoming famine.
CASA FAMILIA SANCHEZ
God let us finish the Sanchez’s family home, they now have a nice and solid home with toilet, shower and a nice roof.

SOLAR PANEL ENERGY
God give us the opportunity to give a Solar panel program for La Angostura true Con McCarthy, this village now have computers in the school, even brand new one, this was a great experience,

TRAINING MEDICAL CARE
Our training for Health promoters and midwives are going pretty well, we have people from many villages, even they travel far away for receive this training, the construction of the health center in Las Flores Escuintla is almost done and after will be on in Monte Rico.

FEEDING PROGRAM
Like every month this is a great time sharing with the kids the material and spiritual nutrition, we went to like every month to 16 villages

ANNYVERSARY MONTH
This is the month of our anniversary and God let us to happen many beautiful things like:
A VIGIL

BAPTIZES:  Many of the kids of our feeding program are coming to this important step

DEEP CLEANNING FOR MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH

LEADERS RETREAT

CON & MARIA MACCARTHY
After 2 months to be working with us, making the vegetables gardens, doing solar panel projects, teaching English (British), Giving lap top computers and cooking a delicious Ireland food, they left Guatemala, Please pray for their next trip on 2010.

FAMINE IN GUATEMALA
Ok. Here come the HOPE  part of this letter,
We are serving many villages who lives in the extremely poverty, and God sent us to make each of this in places who can develop their own place for leave, this will take some time, at least we are watching how God is changing many things, but still they are in the poverty.
One of our programs is working today in train to they can cultivate their own vegetables and in this way they can be healthier and be ready for any hungry problem, but this program is just in the first stage, check the land and do some test.

I’d like to share some links for news and comments about the famine to are coming to our country, for you can see how hard this looks like will be, sorry some are in Spanish but are some in English too.
http://insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2009/august/19/ca04.htm
http://insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2009/april/14/cam04.htm
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200908u/guatemala-hunger
http://www.google.com.gt/custom?q=hambre&cof=S%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.prensalibre.com%3BGL%3A0%3BAH%3Acenter%3BLH%3A62%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.prensalibre.com%2Fpl%2Fcomun%2Fimages%2Flogo2.gif%3BLW%3A387%3BAWFID%3A807ce51ea822c150%3B&domains=www.prensalibre.com&sitesearch=www.prensalibre.com&btnsearch.x=2&btnsearch.y=3

Like you will see in the next Map, the areas we are working on are in the danger area: You will see into the red circle the areas we are
working

We are working hard in the vegetables program, but this don’t will be ready for this famine, is to close, we really like to work in two areas and we will need your help for make this happen:
1. Keep going with the vegetable program, we need sponsor for this project.
2. We want to buy food and be ready for this famine.
Please if you feel in your hearth help us with this coming problem  for our ministry we will be more than happy to share this with this millions of Guatemalans who will need help.

David

SOMETHING ELSE FOR PRAY

Friends,

Like every month God is giving us the opportunity to keep doing his will, and he really keep us doing a little of everything each month, just let us share this month

VEGETALS GARDENS Finally after many time waiting for begin this project, God let us to do with the help Of the Trinity Wesleyan Church from Indiana and Con & Maria McCarthy from Ireland, God sent both of them for begin our learning and testing project, in Monte Rico area and in the city, In Monte Rico making some vegetables tables for try to crop in this area to is 100% salty sand, but we did 7 of then in different areas and see how this will work, and of course teaching making composting, and radish, peppers and tomato are growing, and in the city we began the program hiring a grower (farmer) to teach and train the kids of the program for go later to the villages and teach them all the process, since prepare the land, compost the land, clean of plagues, seed, make their own organic insecticide and take care of the crops. We have 8 kids full working on this.

MEDICAL EQUIPMENT CONTAINER We received this month the donation of a full size container with medical equipment for our next clinics in Monte Rico, Las Flores and Rio Dulce (we just are in the construction of one in las Flores, but…) We have the basic equipment for begin this clinics, is amazing see how God provide for the cost of the ship of this container and the opportunity to bring free taxes in Guatemala, is been a lot of work and still we have more but we want to share with you how the Doctor Don Vanniguen and Jennifer Hook from Seattle make this happen.

MEDICAL TRAINING Like God is guiding us to build this clinics in the areas he sent to work, God put in our hearths begin to train local persons for give medical care to their own communities, we received the support from the ministry of Health and we began in our Monte Rico place a training for Middle wives and health promoters, please pray a lot for this, we starter this program because each village will have in 6 months persons with capacity for take care of their own people in our clinics, we will provide the clean and right place and they will have patients and who will take care of them, but we really are having struggles with the budget for this training, we have around 50 persons under training but we need a budget of US$ 700.00 per month for 6 months, please help us to pray for god provide this budget, we really want keep going in this area.

INDIANA TEAM This month we have the opportunity to share with two teams, and one of them come from the Trinity Wesleyan Church from Indiana, and they was a great blessing for us, they give us the push for begin the vegetables project in Monte Rico, share time with special activities with the church and help with the construction of the home for one of our child. They really did a great help and push keep going.

ATLANTA TEAM This was the second team, they have many years coming every year to help us to build homes for the kids from our program, and they did this time, we bless the Sanchez Family with this home, to still is not finish but they come to give us big push for finish soon, and of course they went to visit our feeding program in Rio Dulce too, but they did something else to I really want to take time for give more details, and is one of the members Laura DeGroot who is senior student made a full English system with DVD’s, Exercises, and all kind of material for make the teaching of English better for our kids and decorate all the classroom with a lot of supplies too, she took hundreds of hours for make this, even each class have their own detail process, she really made a great job. Know we need more volunteer who wants to come and teach English to our kids, everyone is welcome to come and spend some time with us helping in this very important area.

FEEDING PROGRAM And of course our 1,600 kids keep receiving their breakfast, and Bible studies and memorize the verbs of the Bible, they are every day more health, smarts and happy, thanks for help us to keep this program running, our missionaries in Rio Dulce are working hard in keep the feedings program running and all the projects successful, don’t forget us, and if you want to sponsor one of this kids, please let us know, every day our budget is getting tidier.

Thanks for be there praying and thinking on us, please feel free to send us a e mail and tell us you are there, no matter how many we received, any of this inject us energy for keep going, please set team to come to visit and help us, we really need it, if you want to be sponsor of one village or one kid, let us know, will be a bless, WE WANT TO KEEP DOING THIS WORK!!!!! David

A little of everything

Friends,
This last two months (may and June) we did have any team coming and we was  thinking we don’t will have much to do, but if you see June, wow! God always have something to work on his kingdom and we are very glad to this for him.
!WE HAVE A BUS!!!!!
I can’t find the right words for say thanks to all of you to make possible get our bus, is a dream come true and very fast, some offer help with the diesel (please if you don’t send yet your offer, we are praying you can send soon for close this project), other with the fly ticket and God let us have at church our bus, we need still 15 days for get all the legal paper done, but is here and ready for use, and please pray for the Van, we have an offer for get this soon,

Please pray for this van, looks like we will can get soon,

JUNGLE KIDS
Our program with breakfast and develop activities with the kids in remote villages keep going with the bless of our God, we visit 16 villages and we have 2 of them where serve breakfast one other day, under the sponsor of people from Europe  true our friend Con McCarthy, please pray for him for can raise the sponsor for the next half of the year, we are done with the budget and he will ask again the sponsor keep helping us, please pray for his can happen, we really don’t want to close this daily breakfast. You will see how God let us to pick up kids in the villages in the middle of the rain forest rivers to bring our program.


FEEDING PROGRAM
This month we had a unexpected break at the school, like all of you know the “flue A” (h1 n1) is hit all our countries and the school was close for two weeks and this time God let us to spend more and special time with our kids, 250 of them in the city, God put in our hearts to give maintenance to all the equipment, supplies and dishes of our program and we invited the kids to come and be part of this work, and the most of them show up for about 4 days for make this happen, was a very nice experience see all this kids to before don’t have any responsibility or commitment with nothing, come and help us to do this work and they really did a great job, since wash each dish and silver to repair tables and chairs for themselves, even with more skills to us.


Of course after see their work God let us to take them to our retreat center in Monte Rico for have a vacation time with all of them, they really enjoy this and make some work at church (car wash and sale food) for raise money for this camp, was special see all of this kids working for themselves getting what they want.

But the most excited part was when they get in our retreat place they find we are not finish 7 bunk beds and they decided do it, and they really are getting skills for this kind of work, even better than us. But for us the best part is watch them working in our programs, put their hands on, they will be the leaders the manager of all of this in the future and in this way they really feel like part of everything, was a wonderful month for us and our feeding program. See how hard work they did with a lot of joy and skills, the most of them come to our welding class

BEAUTY SALON
This month God let us to bring a team of beauty care for work in the girls and boys in our program and they really enjoy it, even they offer come back because they can’t cover all our kids.

MANGO JAM AND JELLY
One of our dreams for raise money begin to work this month, like many of you know Guatemala is one of the largest producer of Mango, but we really don’t have an exportation system for this fruit and we waste to many every year and God put in our heart to make Jelly and Jam Mango with the church and kids and give to the team to come to visit us and help us to sell for us and raise funds, well, we’ve been dreaming on this for some years but this month we jump and begin, in a little proportion but we pray one day this grow up high. We did from the tree to the bottle.


ROTARY CLUB
God let us to visit our local Rotary Club who sponsor us in all the help we reactive from any international club, they invited us to show how the projects of this year was going on or report the ones are done (Schools in Agua Caliente and Las Flores Izabal, Water project in Las Flores Izabal, Health center in Las Flores Escuintla) and invited us to show projects for 2010, and God was very nice with us, we receive a recognize for this work, Praise the name of God, his mercy and love with us.

OTHERS
We really have a lot of other things to share with you, but your time and room… but we had the kids receiving shoes true their program points, we had a big sandwich competition, friend to come and get their sponsor kid to the market (they never did this before), a lot of things but…

God bless all of you, thanks for your pray and sponsor, we really feel both, and please don’t forget us,
David