Women’s bible study
Our weekly women's bible study with Tammy had grown to over 50 women. A few months ago, Tammy felt from the Lord to divide into six groups. Now every Thursday morning at 10am, we have small groups meeting all throughout Arriaga. I'm so blessed to be leading one of these groups. It is…
Children’s day
This past week we celebrated "Dia del Niño" a.k.a. Children's day here in Mexico, a day set apart to honor and bless our children, to shower them with gifts and allow them to eat more candy than usual. Sunday at church we celebrated the day by singing, playing games, serving cake and praying over…
No Free Ride
Here, on Mexico’s southern border, the debate over illegal immigration is impossible to ignore as droves of the undocumented travel daily before our door. The trains in front of the orphanage, often overflowing but never without at least a few faces of Central and South Americans who believe the metal…
Carmita’s “new princess smile”
Before Three years ago Carmita, along with her sister Romelia, came to live with Bill and Tammy here at the orphanage. She had gotten beaten all night long by her drunken father. Through much prayer and love many of her scars have disappeared however everytime she smiled we were reminded of the physical abuse she experienced…
Hope
On January 12th, 2006 my son Caleb was born in Plano, TX. Three months later in Arriaga, Chiapas a little boy by the name of Christian would be born to a prostitute with AIDS. The other day as I watched them chase each other I thought about the contrasting worlds…
Faith
We have a brother in our church that everytime you ask him how he is doing, he answers "Thank God, I'm doing well". What a faith statement because this brother is battling cancer and it is obvious that the chemo has taken a toll on his body. Wednesday night we found him walking home…
Love
As I was walking out of the church on Valentine's day my husband informed me a family had come to visit from another town and he wanted to have them over for lunch. I immediately said, "no way!" A flood of thoughts came in "I have other plans, I don't even…
Religion vs. Relationship
Something that we talk about a lot in our home and at the orphanage is our desire to see the children have a relationship with Jesus and not just gain a religion with a set of rules that they can never meet. Sadly, I've met plenty of people who grew…
Home for the Holidays
After being on the missions field for 13 months we decided to come home to visit. It took us 3 days to get out of Mexico. We are so proud of our boys for being awesome travel troopers. It was a nice time to bond with them by singing,…
Thus far has the Lord helped us…
October 19th, 2009 marked our one year aniversary as missionaries with El Faro de Esperanza in Arriaga, Chiapas MEXICO. On Sunday my wife testified in the service of God´s faithfulness to take care of us thus far. Listening to her recount the miracles of our Father´s financial provision, divine health…