Thank you so much for your prayers and support! Here are the activities that we were involved with during the Christmas season.
Faith in Action
Our Bible study on Monday nights with street vendors, alcoholics, poor and homeless is called Faith in Action. The number of people attending continued to grow all fall, and for our final Christmas party over 220 came. It was a great night of celebrating God’s goodness together.
Los Gozosos
Los Gozosos is a wonderful orphanage that is dedicated to caring for children with special needs. Their staff works incredibly hard to raise these children to reach their potential and to love them with God’s love. It’s an honor to work with them as part of their board of directors, and it was great to spend a special day with the children.
Casa Shalom
The kids at Casa Shalom captured the hearts of Yuliza and I many years ago, and we still love to work with this great orphanage. Members of our church came with us in order to give all the staff of the home a morning off from cooking and caring for the kids. We rented a few bounce houses, played soccer and had a big meal together.
Our Family
Christmas at our house involved a lot of food, fellowship, fireworks and lots of visits of many kids to our house. It was a fun and busy time!
Many of the kids who come to our Monday night program are street vendors, and Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve are their busiest nights of work. The central park of our town fills with people, and so these kids sell candy, fruit and fireworks all night long. As a family we like to go and spend time with them giving gifts and showing love because it can be a long and hard night for them. It’s such a blessing to see Margaret and Isabella’s hearts grow for the children as we spend time with them.
Yuliza and I celebrated our 15th anniversary on December 26th. And now we’re preparing for the new school year which starts next week.
A new boy named Jeremiah is about to move in with us from Casa Shalom. He turned 18 on December 27th, and we were invited to his birthday party at the orphanage. We’re still looking and praying if any other children can come and join our family before the new school year. We would greatly appreciate your prayers for his adjustment to living in our home and for direction with any new kids.
Thank you so much for your continuous prayer and support!
Brent, Yuliza, Margaret & Isabella