Holy Teeth

I´ll bet you didn´t know that you could use a tooth brushing clinic as an opportunity to teach children that God loves them and that their life means something to Him.

That´s the FH way, use every single thing you do to point the community to Christ. The Team paticipated in a dental health clinic with the FH staff yesterday. The leaders started the presentation with the topic of life is sacred because God made it and therefore we should care for our bodies so we can achieve the potential He created us for.

The FH teachers are masters at making learning fun. We ate and ate again of course. Did some more home visits and dug trenches for a sewer line for the family training center we started in March. Mucho trabajar!

Dinner was great, and we stopped for Ice Cream about 10PM.

This is our last day in Sucre. It´s going to be hard to say goodbye to the community.

The Team will be passing out Bibles with the Gideons today at the local public school. Try that in the USA.

Please pray that God uses the Bibles we pass out today to bring families to Him.


More home visits and a farewell dinner will follow. Oh yeah, we are also going to be clobbered by the school teachers in a soccer game. It´s not fair, but it sure is fun.

La Pâz and some shopping tomorrow and then a long flight home. Caio

Hello to all of you from Bolivia

I am writing tonight to tell you all about the amazing things that our Precious Lord is doing here. I am completely amazed and blown away by how He works all that He does through weak me...us, His church. He has been so faithful not just here but in the months coming up to this time. I had felt so completely inadequate to even come on this trip but the Lord has been showing me how He is the one who will do the work not me. And today I was able to meet the child that I sponsor. His name is Armando. I can´t even begin to express to you all in words the feelings that I experienced as I stood there with Armando and his humble family. His mother,sister (21 years old)and two younger siblings. Seven children in this family and his mother so thankful that we had come. The father was not present. He works 12-13 hours days, 6 days a week and then today he was out drinking. Very sad. They asked that we would pray that their father would become a Christian. They did not ask for things but for the salvation of their father. The tangible poverty, the yard that we walked into was desolate of any life. A bare dusty yard with dogs, and trash. They humbly offered us a place to sit outside. As we spoke with them through an interpreter, Derek, an FFH worker and missionary from the states-(what an amazing young man). We learned (I learned) more about this family. There extreme struggles with poverty, despair, alcholism....I can´t even begin to explain the hoplessness that is here and yet here comes our Jesus with the hand of hope that this family needs. The extension of His loving hands through us,me! I think I don´t derserve to be here and yet the Lord has granted me this opportunity, has granted us this opportunity to stand before these precious people and show them the very thing that He has shown me. He now in this dark place is causing His light to shine out of the darkness and His name is glorified. I am amazed that there is not place that is too dark for the hands and eyes of our Lord to reach and He chooses to do it through me, through us, through MCC, through us all. I feel I am not doing enough. I cried so much and yet they did too. I am so thankful to be here and this is only the second day of being here in Horna Casa. Thank you all for your support and your prayers and please know that the Lord is answering them. He is doing them in His way, not ours but His and it is beautiful to see His word and His work come together in a tangible way. Also my brother Mike is notibly being changed as well. Today I asked him, "So what do you think so far? Do you think you would want to be a Christian now?" His answer was that "Yes" He was thinking about it. I am in awe and don´t even know how to feel or think because it is too much now. I guess that´s all. I'm certain I am rambling. So sorry for that. Thank you for praying. With much love an prayers for you all. In our Precious Jesus Christo! Patty :o)

Kids, Kids, Food, Kids

Greetings from day 2!!!

Yesterday was busy. From about 2pm-10:30pm it was nonstop. This day was really our first taste of Horno Ckasa and the FH staff that works there. Until I spent time with them I thought I worked a lot of hours. The life of an FH staff member here is busy...in fact to call it busy doesn´t seem busy enough. What we saw yesterday, though, was a group of people that bring dedication to a new level. Whether herding kids, cooking, putting on a sex education class for adolescants, they not only have unending energy, but their love for the kids they serve would be visible to a blind guy.

It´s clear where they recieve their strength and their love. We had to ask ourselves the same. Where do we draw our strength? Today we play the kids in soccer tournament, so we´`ll definitely need it from the Lord.

Other activities for Sunday include assisting with a marriage retreat for couples in the community, and our favorite part, more time with the kids.

Thank you for your prayers. Today pray that the Lord would strengthen the marriages of those at the retreat and that he would be glorified in all things that happen here.

More to Follow! We love you guys!!!