My Dear Friends and Supporters,
I pray this finds you all in joy through God's blessings in your lifes.
Three weeks ago I was able to build wooden stairs over (9) cement stairs, that acted more like a waterfall when it rained, and was a hazard to people walking on them, besides getting very wet. I hired a local man to help me, (He lived in Casa Cuba on the street with his wife and four children) as I was still sick with Bronchitis and had no energy, but this needed to be completed before I went to Nicaragua. It has started raining really hard every day, so this was a blessing for all..)
Two weeks ago I went to Nicaragua for (1) week to renew my visa for another 3 months. (You have to stay out of the country for 3 days every 3 months to renew a visa. I stayed at Calavary Chapel in Managua, while I was there I installed some fans, lights and a door in their school directers office. The school has about 120 students, which Calvary pays a large portion of there tuition every year as mostly their very poor. Praise God!!....Great Place to visit:>)
Casa Cuba......Before and after!!
Now here's a blessing I found out about after I came back from Nicaragua.
The government (in wanting to get these families off the street) had paid all of them enough money to pay rent on a house for the next three months. So my first visit back from Managua to Casa Cuba I found nobody there, no tents, nothing, accept garbage on the street.
This was a sight to see after two years of over 100 families living in shacks on the streets. I was over joyed. What they will do after three months is the question?
Please pray for jobs and housing for all these families.
More blessings; Los Guizaros.......
"Food for the Hungry Mission" has been providing enough vegetables, (potatoes, squash, cabbage, pineapple, platanos and other foods common to Costa Rica) two help for two weeks, every two weeks in feeding the children in Los Guidzaros. This has improved there diet every day. Their are still many needs for this ministry, one being, "remodeling the small kitchen area in the center with a stove, refrigerator, counters and plumbing so that all the preparation and cooking and clean up can be done on site."
Due to the hard work of mission teams from Tenn and Texas that helped remodel the Community Center this past August. We are now using the other room we built, to teach the youth Bible Studies which reduces the distractions from the younger children who are in the big room having there own style of Bible Study for children.
“Ministry C.A.F.E.”, The Men’s Rehab Center in Coronado is being blessed with a weekly Bible Study, starting this week. It will be taught by an advanced student from the Spanish Language School I attended three years ago. God continues to bless these men in there quest for a drug alcohol free life based on a relationship with Christ. We have not picked an afternoon yet, but we will be going up every week to teach the study and minister to these men.
A major need for this ministry is a room addition, as they need more room and a real bedroom with bathroom and shower area and bunk beds for up to 20 men. This would be a great project for a short term mission team or I can build it for about $3500.00, complete with bunk beds.
Please pray on this.
I just got back from Jaco Beach. (It's on the Pacific coast, about 3 hours from my home.) I was helping a Pastor friend and his family (Michael and Reeve and there two girls) finish a storage room on there house. They're from a Calvary Chapel in Florida and have been on mission in Costa Rica for about 1&1/2 years. A mission team from there home church had started the project, but had to leave before it was finished. I was blessed in going there, as it was a blessing fellow shipping with Pastor Mike and his wife Revae and playing with their children.
There is another project I've agreed to help with at Jaco Beach in the near future.
A local family has weekly bible studies and fellowship meeting at there home, but getting to the house is a bit tricky as you have to walk across a high creek bed over a very old and narrow bridge, about 35 feet long. Some families that would like to come to the meeting can't bring there children in fear of falling off the bridge. Mike's home church has left enough funds to build a new bridge across the creek similar to the one I built in Los Guido last year.
Photos of Jaco Beach, the Pastors family, the bridge to be replaced, building the roof, the beach and some local children.
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Commission To Every Nation, = "CTEN, P.O. Box 291307, Kerrville, TX 78029"...please send in all support by the 24th for that months disbursement. Make your check out to CTEN with a side note with my name on it, (not on the check).
