There is so much to tell you…
Each child, each face is a story and an adventure. I am passionate about my job. I love it. It is full of challenges always… But at the same time, this allows me to know and depend more and more on God and enables me to see His glory.
It is not easy for me to make some decisions… Herbert is 10 years old (some of you know him, he is in the background of this photo). I don’t know how many things he has seen, what I do know is that sometimes he doesn’t come home at night, he has never been to school and he already knows a lot about facing life alone. He is an intelligent child, but at the same time, he is strong willed, manipulative, and proud. His mother does nothing to truly teach him to behave. I think she sees the problem as so big that she has already given up. She says she just can’t do it. At home there is no doubt that Herbert is in charge. At school he has had some attitudes that we definitely cannot allow. He has even been giving ideas to other children… I am praying about what is the solution to this situation… Will you please help me to pray? If anyone has any advice, I World appreciate that as well.
Myra’s dad died 2 years ago and her mom moved to California to work. Mayra is living sometimes with her sister and sometimes with her brother (I think it depends on what is more convenient at the moment). She is a young, 13-year-old girl, pretty, intelligent, and wise, but she is very lonely. She is one of the youth who comes to my house to sleep on Saturdays. We are able to share a lot with her. Now she will be coming to my house from Friday until Sunday. I would like for her to come live with me, but God will guide us in His will.
This month we have been teaching the children about “Family”. One of the teachers taught that God is our Father in the great family of faith. Then she asked the children with what they associated the word “father”. They responded: hate, punishment, hits my mom, mistreats my mom, buys things, threatens, angry.
Of course, the teacher is dealing with this misconception biblically, but we need your prayers please so that there is healing in the Heart of each child and so that they can have the right idea of the role of the father. This way, when they are adults they can be the husband and father that God wants them to be. They are learning about something that they have never seen take place in their lives and homes. I think they see it as a fairy-tale. However, we know that there is power in the Word of God and in the example they see in us.
It is wonderful to see how the children come by their own will. They love to be at the little School. They run to be on time and they don’t want to miss a single day. Their parents don’t have to force them come, on the contrary, their parents use “I won’t let you go to the little school” as a punishment or treat. When they misbehave the punishment is not being able to go to the school. Sometimes it is a well-deserved punishment. But most of the time it is used unjustly and out of anger. Even so, we teach them to honor their parents no matter what and this method is working well for us.
The month of May has been a blessed month for us, but also very busy with work. Someone put us in contact with orthodontic students at a university. They have to do an internship and needed patients. They have received almost 60 of our children and will give them all their dental work completely free of charge.
I hope you enjoy these pictures. These are various outings with different groups…
