October a very wet month

Friends Here we are again blessing God for let us go into your time and share all what is happen here in our country Guatemala;  October really was a unique month for us, we have rain like we don’t have before in this generation, we have almost 17 days with a lot of rain and this made very strong damage in all our country and our work of course was impact in many ways, one of our villages Agua Dulce stayed under water for 10 days, the people had to move from their homes, some come to our place in Monterico and others in refuges but the sponsor of The Wesleyan Church of Pulaski NY in USA help us give to all of them food, blankets, pray and friendship. But in the rest of the villages we lost more of the 50% of our vegetables gardens, really we had to much rain.

   

FEEDING PROGRAM We finish our school in Guatemala, our kids will be in vacation November and December and we will have our vacation camp in November and our Christmas celebration in December, but we finish with a good group of kids receiving their daily breakfast and tutor for their classes, thanks to all of you to make this happen, the 90% of the kids won the year.

   

JUNGLE KIDS God keep his bless with us  to bring the breakfast and God’s love to all this kids, they are working hard for can come to our camps, please pray for God help us to bring the most of the village’s kids. They really are improving in all heir lives.

   

OPEN CEREMONY IN MONTERICO CLINIC Finally after 20 months of work, God let us make a ceremony showing the clinic to the people of the area, still is not running until we get the sponsor for hire a doctor or set a schedule for doctor from other countries come to see the patients, but this really was a great moment see all this work of many of you, many Rotary Clubs, churches, friends, foundations, etc. now is a big challenger make this run, please pray for us to God provide resources for make this happen, we need all kind of medical care teams for help us on this.

   

HEALING THE CHILDREN TEAM Like in the last years we have again the medical team lead for Jennifer Hoock, and they visit villages in Rio Dulce and Monterico areas again, they really are giving a great medical care and follow to the kids and the families, and every year we receive the visit of new doctors and people with them with a big hearth to help this ones who don’t have nothing, please pray for they don’t stop to come and help us.

   

ROTARY VISIT We receive the visit of our clubs friends from Seattle area and other from different areas of Canada and they visit some of our hide villages for can find projects for education and health, we want to bless all of them and we will pray for have good news soon,

   

COLOMBIA HEARTH This is a very special part of this new letter, God let me went to Bogota this month to see in firsthand the need of the poor kids in this country too, and we are invited to help to open a program like us in an area in Bogota called “Bosa La Esmeralda” really is a great need and we want give to this  kids hope. If someone who is reading this letter and feel something for Colombia, please let us know and pray if God let us help this country too.

   

CAR MECHANIC SHOP Like you know we are almost finish our car mechanic shop and one Rotary Club in CA true our dearly friend Clare Short took the work to raise found for buy the equipment necessary for run the shop, Guatemala is not eligible for make a matching grant for this and Clare asked me to invited all of you to be interesting in help us to make this project go,  send your donations to our Bank account and see this project run soon, he was the first person with US$  1,000.00, please if you have any question let us know.   Thanks again fro let us share with you all of this blessing, David

29 Years

FRIENDS,

This August is special for us because we got 29 years of life like CCCG, almost 3 decades, 2 of learning and growing our kids for be an alive testimony of God’s mercy and call;  and 9 years of put our hands on this call, “kids”.

We want say thanks to the lord and each of you to make this call be real in our church, we have the call, the passion the love and the willingness  to do it, but all of you give us the resources this happen. And we celebrate with a breakfast to all our hard workers.

   

FEEDING PROGRAM

Our kids are growing and learning every day more and more, in God, health, hygiene, English, etc. an is a wonderful experience see them getting old and changing their lives in an amazing way.

    

JUNGLE KIDS

Like all of you know we serve breakfast every other day in Nacimiento and Tablitas and every weekend in one of the rest 18 villages, and we need sponsor for can do this the next year. If you want sponsor a kid from one of the villages for US$ 30.00 per month let us know and we will guide you for make this happen, is unbeliever see how God is changing the life of this kids but we will need to be with them at least until they get into the university or begin to work, help us to make this happen.

   

   

FENAD

Our youths from the feeding program and now in charge of the most of our work at church, even we hire one of them for be in charge or the computer and English class, is great see all this kids taking a leadership with the small ones, in the first pictures the kids who are playing the guitar and drums come from our feeding program, in the second another girl from the feeding program is teaching computer.

   

NEXT LEVEL CHURCH TEAM

This month we receive the visit of our friends from Next Level Church in Maine and New Hampshire, they visit us and we really had a great time with all of them, was the first time this church visit us.

   

COMMUNITY CHURCH OF THE OPEN DOOR

We received the visit of this church from Bangor Maine, they come to help us build a new simple system for water purification, are some things to really are simple and easy to do but we need guide and sponsor and they come to build this for our kids in the villages.

   

LETICIA PEREZ

We have a volunteer from European space agency spend all this month with us, wow!!! She really worked hard with the kids in the city, in the clinic in Monte Rico, with the breakfast in the villages, building with us the filters, helping with eyes glasses, coking food, teaching English, etc. was a bless to us have her doing all this work next to us, thanks friend from ESA for send so a great ambassador.

   

   

CHURCH RETREAT

This month we went with all the people from the church to make possible have all this project running every month to recharge batteries and we had a church retreat where God talked with us about we are receptor of his dreams for the word and he expect we can be his instrument for make all his dram true in the word and we feel honor to receive this words from him. But of course we have a time for put our hand on work carry all the volcanic stones for make our green septic tank for the clinic in Monterico.

   

Like you see we had another great busy month but with a lot of victories and new dreams knowing God is with us, please don’t forget pray for us and save time for our FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE  in January 2013,

David

A Faithful God

Friends,

This pass May we see again how faithful is our God, letting us accomplish goals, receiving his resources true many of you and giving us new orders for keep walking in his desire for CCCG, and of course we want to share with you with more details this last four weeks:

FEEDING PROGRAM

We are watching how our kids are growing and lead new kids and we receive new kids for grow with us, we split every morning the small kids and the old ones for have better time together and the small one can have better care, but now the older ones are taking care of the new ones, and this is very special for us,

   

JUNGLE KIDS

Is extremely bless for us see how God is providing the needs of our kids in the villages, like schools, water, health centers, vegetables gardens, composting toilets, etc, but this month was special see how God provide new area for the feeding program in two of our villages: Nacimiento Tebernal and Tablitas.

   

MONTERICO CLINIC

The clinic is finish in all out side area, walls and tile inside, and we really want bless the Lake Stevens Rotary Club in WA, they been the instrument for make this happen, we still we need some support for finish some of the work and try to get sponsors for doctors, medicine and make this can run, we hope be done soon.

   

SPRINT WATER PROTECTION

This month with the sponsor of a Rotary club we begin to protect the water resources for the villages where we work and the people are very excited understanding what important the preventions means.

   

VOLUNTEERS REQUIREMENT

We had this month the visit of Kaori from Japan sharing with our kids in the city and Monterico but we really need more and long time volunteers, we need one to want come and help us teaching English and computer, if you think you can come for one month or more please contact us because we really need help in this area.

   

SPONSOR A KID

Remember you can sponsor one of our kids from the villages and the city feeding programs, with US$ 30.00 per month you will help us to this ministry keep running, please if yu want more information just ask us how to do it a we will give more information, we really need have more sponsor for can grow in our goals to give opportunity to more kids can develop their areas.

   

2013 CONFERENCE

Don’t forget our first international convention in January 2013, we are dreaming in have all of you (big dream, no?) in Guatemala for this conference from January 11 to 13, 2013, of course we will have activities after the conferences giving tours true Guatemala where you can see our country and in the same time can see the work God is letting us doing in the villages. If you think you can come don’t forget let us know, we will need confirmation later but now we want to have one idea how many will can come,

Thanks for be with us and be part of this blessings.

David

Making a True Dream

Friends,
April of this year will remember for us for the month where God let us to work in one of our dreams, hoping be a true in short time:
THE CCCG’s GOD’S LOVE NETWORK, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
(if you have any advice for a correct English redaction will be welcome for this name)
Many of you when come to Guatemala we asked if you will be willing to come one time to meet our friends from every place where God pick  help  us, USA, Canada, Europe, Central and south America.
We was dreaming  have the most of our friends together and meet each other and we can praise the name of Jesus true all of you, and we begin to make this begin to go true. Do our first international conference of friends in Guatemala.
DATES: January 10 to 12, 2013  (we will have tours and attention since January 4)
PLACE: Monte Rico Guatemala
Our next step in this activity is invited all of you to think about come this time and confirm true a e mail you desire to come, we really are praying all of you 100% can come, we will need to rent hotels and make a lot of logistic and we need to have a number of guest, this is the reason your confirmation is important, we know you will need time to organize this, but we really like to know how many of you will be willing to come and we will work with this number for reservation and make numbers and in faith maybe more will come, please send us a e mail letting us your intentions of come.
We hope receive hundreds of e mails back.
Ok, I really like talk more on this but let me begin with our share for this month.
FEEDING PROGRAM
This month God bless us with a 85% of participation of our 225 kids who are listed with us in the city, every time they are having more commitment with this program and this year bring a enormous belong spirit on them, we really are happy how God worked this year for make this happen.
   
FENAD
Our teen project is working great this year, all the leaders of each table in our feeding program belong to this program, this let us make everything thru them, bring any new project or  influence in anything God lead us to do with this kids, this program really is blessing us.
   
JUNGLE KIDS
God is letting us going step by step in the life and changes to this kids need to do, our vegetables, composting toilets, computer, etc programs are having successful thanks to this kid to really are waiting for an opportunity to learn and develop themselves, and we pray later develop their own communities, is not been easy work, 4 years with them and still have hard time making changes, but God call us to work with them with two generations it means 4 years are nothing in God’s time.
   
VEGETABLES PROJECT
We are very excited with the vegetables program in our villagers, they learned they can make this happen, God bless us with a big harvest of peppers and tomatoes, big ones, this make to the spirit of learn of our kid increase the desire to keep learning and work with us in this projects God send us.
   
DEHYDRATION FRUIT
One of the program to every year make a step, maybe small year by year, but very strong is our dehydration fruit program, we are in the harvest of mango and Cashew fruit ( you eat the knout we do the fruit), is to much we can’t eat and some people waste a lot, we are showing them how to dry and packet them, saving for later and who know maybe in the future exported.
   
FISH FARM
We had a great successful with the test of this project and this month we seed again the farm with 2,500 babe fish, and hope build in May one more and maybe two more in the close future for make a really income for his village named La Angostura.
   
COMPOSTING TOILETS
Finally we inaugurate this program, we ask all of you pray for the people can learn how to use them, they are still a little nervous about use this, they never had any sanitation before and they think this don’t will work, of course our kids are willing try, we have just a few weeks using and until today is great successful but this will take 3 months for really see how they are working.
 
LEADERS RETREAT
This month we had our leaders retreat for keep our goals and call on the way and some of the leaders from the villages joint with us for be sure God will leading us in the right way.

 
RELAX TIME
And believer or not Fabiola and me had the opportunity to have a relax time, since our accident in July’10 we can’t have a time both of us just relaxing and God let us do that this month, thanks for your prayers and sponsor for all this time,
  
WAITING FOR YOU
Like you see this month we don’t have any team visiting us and we have a lot of room for you can come and visit the rest of the year in July, September, October, November and December we have room for you,

David

NEW FRIENDS

FRIENDS,
We have many things to share this month with all of you, but maybe the main one is this month we have many new friends coming from team we never had before and they come to help us to do the work God asked us to do, let share this month with all of you:
FEEDING PROGRAM
Was an honor have teams who never come before to help us feed our kids this month, they really was a bless for us.  We still are praying for get new 70 sponsors for the same number of kids who still don’t have sponsor in the city, if you feel in your hearth take one of our kids sponsor for $ 30.00 per month please let us know, God is been very special with us providing every month more sponsor and we pray soon we will be done with this ones from the city.
   
JUNGLE KIDS
Our kids in the villages keep growing and showing us how great they can be leading new projects, we have a composting toilets and vegetable program with them and they really are doing great
 

DENTIS TEAM
We receive again the visit of Wings World Wide, friend who come to help us with dental care to our villages, and every year is an honor a blessing having them working with us
   
PARAMEDIC TEAM
We have the visit this year like new friend of BRAVE foundation, they are firemen and paramedic from WA state who come to train our firemen and this year even they help us to train our health promoters and midwives in Monte Rico for the next clinic we will open late this year.
   
APLEESEED TEAM
Another group who visit us like new friend are this team from the Alabama university, they come to help us to poor concrete in the floor of our clinic in Monte Rico and they really work hard, and in the end off the week come to church and did a great job with our kids in the city.
   
ATLANTA TEAM
This is a group to come every year and they work hard pouring concrete in our clinic in Monte Rico, they work extremely hard and left us a lot of work done
   
PORT CLAYDE TEAM
Another team to visit us for first time, we had the opportunity to go to some villages and bring each home a mosquito net and show them no matter who far away they are, god loves them and send all of us to make this true, really was a great time, moody and wet but full of blessings.
   
MICROFINANCE PROGRAM
We have began this program a few time ago and now we have receiving other friend, Enrico Contolini who is helping us the women in the villages have an income and give them pride and feel useful they are raising chickens for meat.
   
MARRIED RETREAT
This month we receive the visit of two speakers who come to help us with our member who work hard in all this projects, many people when come see how hard this people work and all to is accomplish true them, but sometimes this workers need some relax and treat to, and God let us have our married retreat with Patrick and Paula Ballard who really made a great job.
 

TWO RIVER CHURCH VISIT
The same happened with our ell groups who serve and attend our 16 villages in the country, 3 of them receive gifts and a “Knoxville Night” where they learn about Tennessee and Knoxville, that really was a great time.
   
HYDROPONIC PROJECT
We been having problems with one of our areas of villages where the soil is sand and very salty and nothing grow there and God put in our hearth begin to work with hydroponic gardens, this month we did our fist pilot program, please pray fot his work and we can bless the families around,
   
I hope not take to long for you in this one but we really like to share all this blessings.
Hope ti hear from all of you,
David