For us here
in Guatemala October is a month of finishing. The kids finish school and start
their two months of vacation. We finish our last month of the feeding center in
San Mateo for the year. The six months of rainy season (Hopefully) is finishing
this month! With many things coming to an end it brings our prayers to two
things; one of thankfulness and the other of hopefulness. First we must look
back on all the Lord has done and see how faithful he has been to provide,
protect, and love. It is amazing to see the ways he has given to our family as
well as to so many families around us. Also, to watch his hand and how he has orchestrated:
people to meet, friendships to be made, needs to be met, vision to be given,
food to be given. For all of this that
has happened we are thankful to our Lord.
Secondly, we look forward with hopefulness for the year to come. We are
hopeful for our feeding center to open back up in January. We look forward to
seeing the Lords hand work as always in amazing ways. We hope in Him for
support and provision for another year. We are hopeful for health and
protection. We hope to see peoples financial needs met by the people of God. We
hope more than anything to see people (including ourselves) grow more and
closer to our Savior Jesus Christ in genuine relationship. We hope you see God
in what we do.
As the year
is coming to an end I thank God because in January it will be two years since
we moved here and God has provided all this time and we pray that he keeps doing
it. I have to believe in God because without Him all of this would be
impossible. We moved to Guatemala with very little support but the hardest
thing was not the money it was the lack of moral and spiritual support, but in
all our trails God has been faithful and people like you have been faithful. I
want to say thank you for those that have been helping us to carry that cross.
You are the one that keeps praying for us. You the one who keeps donating. You
the one that keeps sending messages of encouragement. You the one that keeps
loving us even from afar. I pray to my God for you the faithful one as God has
not forsaken us you have not either. In the Word we see how much God and Jesus
long for consistent, faithful, and enduring followers; and our family has seen
and experienced why. It is the consistent that you can lean on. It is the
faithful that you can turn to. It is the enduring that you can run to. Of
course the Lord wants these characteristics in His people. We are so blessed to
have seen this from you! The body of Christ is about people helping those that
go, emotionally, but most importantly spiritually, and loving them. Those are
the three pillars that will build up a missionary, that will hold a missionary,
and that will help a missionary keep going. So if you are our pillars or want
to be our pillars we are asking you to keep going, do not forsake us, for my
God will not forsake you.
We want to
do more for long term here in Guatemala and that is why we have created our project
FAMILY 300 which basically means helping a family in one of three ways: bunks
beds, wood burning stove, or fixing a house/building a small house. Each
project would cost $300 and these families would be blessed for 10 years or
more! Our desire is to be able to have the support to do one of these projects
every month!
Secondly,
we want to keep feeding the people of San Mateo, we have 50 kids and the place
is growing and we really need you. To keep running we have to have a total of
$4,000 a year, about $400 a month to feed 50 plus kids this includes gas, food,
supplies, and offerings for people that help us. 
ONE for Guate-
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One for guate
6300 deane hill drive
Knoxville,TN 37919
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