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Our girls lead Bible studies with the kids and teens while I’m sharing with the adults. Our group continues to grow and we’ve have about 50 attend each week. It’s also been great to see Margaret become great friends with the other kids that come. She’s such a sweet girl who loves making new friends with the children that come.
And during the school year, the monthly tuition is roughly about $60 depending on the career. In our home, we budget for $2 a day for food for each of us which is $60 a month per girl. In 2022 we’ve been running short about $550 each month, and it would be wonderful to be able to cover these expenses this coming year. Potters Home Center has worked on 0 jobs in the last 12 months.
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I also have the privilege of serving on the board of directors for a special needs orphanage in our town called Los Gozosos . They have been really struggling to meet their budget during the pandemic to pay for all the medicine, therapists, teachers and nurses necessary to care for these precious kids. I encourage you to take a look at their website and see if there is a way that you can help out. Last month we were delighted to receive a new girl named Anelcy into our home. We’ve known her since she was 10, and she’s quickly become part of our family.
She’s the first one in her family to finish high school, and she graduated with a degree as a preschool teacher. Please pray for Celia as she searches for her first job, and pray that she seeks the Lord’s will for her life. Most people that come to our feeding programs live day-by-day, and these new restrictions have affected them hard. We’ve had to cancel our feeding program and Bible study, but our group, DBO Ministries, has been buying food and supplies for the families. But there are many poor, homeless, and shoe shiners who we haven’t located. Other than classes, we’re spending lots more time here together than we normally get.
Alfonso & Julio
(It doesn’t just happen in the United States!) So sometimes there are mandatory curfews at certain hours, and sometimes meetings and gatherings are not allowed. • That the apartment would be a great blessing to some new young adults that need a little assistance in their lives. A home’s curb appeal is important, but not all landscape and outdoor home improvement projects are worth investing in. We are only able to provide these services at no cost because of your generous donations.
The curfew is a new thing that just started this weekend, and it’s very bizarre to be stuck at home so early and have the normally very busy streets so empty and quiet. We’re also proud of our girls and love to watch them grow up. Our prayer is that we consistently model their Heavenly Father and His incredible love for them. We pray that they grow to love and trust Him, and that they seek His will for their lives.
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Our dirt roads are also now in the process of getting paved, and we have to walk about a quarter mile from our house to get to where we can park our car. No other contractors have reviewed Potters Home Center's payment process and practices.Review your experience with Potters Home Center anonymously and quickly. My good friend Luke came from Austin to visit for two weeks in January and we had a great time hanging out, fishing, cooking lots of foods, and hiking a volcano. We had hoped that Julio, Alfonso and Alejandro, who had lived with us before, would come and join us, but they didn’t make it. I was very excited to be able to see them, but we’ll keep trying to invite them over. Please pray for Yuliza and her family as her father is terminally ill.
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It has become more and more of a family night together as we love one another just as Christ Jesus loved us. We hope everyone is doing well, and we’re praying for all of you during this trying time that we’re in. The market and grocery stores are still open a few hours everyday, so we have enough food. Our girls have been off from school this past week and here at the house. The teachers were nice enough to give them lots of homework to keep them busy! And they’re enjoying spending the time learning to cook new foods with Yuliza.
Isabella’s first question in the morning is now, “Where’s Anelcy? We are excited to see what God has in store for Anelcy in the future. The road construction started about 2 and a half months ago, and it looks like they need another few weeks more.
Our government has been even more strict than in the United States, so there is a curfew every night at 6 PM, and no one is allowed to be outside after that. And most weekends we’re not supposed to go outside at all, although right now we’re allowed to go outside on Saturday mornings. Travel is very restricted with police checkpoints between the different departments of the country. We had a trip to the United States planned back in May, but the airport has been closed since March, and they don’t have plans to reopen it anytime soon. It’s been over 4 months of quarantine here, and we thought that you’d enjoy an update about what’s going on here. First of all, our family is doing well, and although the number of cases of COVID is increasing in the country, we’re doing ok.
We started a process almost a year ago with Yuliza’s paperwork, and still haven’t gotten things resolved. The trip in May that was canceled was necessary, and we can’t do much but wait and pray. Also, as I mentioned in our last update, we had been able to start a relationship with Alfonso again over Christmas. It was such a hard time almost three years ago when we had to ask him and Julio to leave our house, and so to start the relationship with him again was wonderful. We’re hoping to begin construction on a new house this next year.
They’ve been at the rehab center for about three weeks now, and it’s been a struggle for them both. All these closings and travel limitations have greatly affected many people, and many are out of work. There’s no social security, so it’s been very hard on many families. Many people now stand outside along the road waving white flags as a way to show that they need food. It’s hard to be surrounded by so much need, and to be honest it can feel overwhelming to want to help but feel like we’re not even making a dent in the situation. As for number of cases, there are over 40,000 in the country.
Please pray for Martin and Alfonso who both left the alcohol rehabilitation center and aren’t doing well. It’s been great to be able to have meetings this year, as they were prohibited almost all of last year. Our president and congress can’t figure out what’s best in order to contain the virus, and they’re always fighting amongst themselves.
Along with the water filter they also evangelize to the family and try to connect them to the local church. It has been wonderful to work alongside them as translators, and it’s been great to get our girls involved. Karla now is able to go with a group of Americans and do all of the translation back and forth between English and Spanish. Even Margaret has enjoyed going to the homes and being part of the ministry. The apartment is a cement block structure with a flat cement roof as is typical in Guatemala. This style makes it easy to expand the house in the future by adding onto the sides and on top of it.
We will be talking to some during the upcoming break from school about coming to live with us next year. If you recall, we had two guys, Alfonso and Julio, who used to live with us several years ago. Because of a situation that arose, we had to ask them to leave our home, and it was a really difficult time. We were particularly sad about Alfonso because he had been with us for three years, and we love him a lot. Please pray for the country as it struggles containing the virus and treating the sick. Please pray for all the people struggling to have enough to eat during this time.
