Serving Those In Need

We are going to serve the Dvorak family in their orphanage home in which they have 17 children and 7 teens. The following are areas we will be serving:

Service Project – This is a manual labor/work we do on the homes grounds to help them take care of their facilities (painting, sanding, cement work, landscaping, etc…). Woodie the hot water heater will be installed along with a structure to keep it protected. We will also be installing a cyclone fence and our carpenters Jeff and Jason have a project to build a bench in the courtyard.

Youth Care – We will be assisting Becky Dvorak and the children’s caregivers with bathing, feeding, playing and general care of the young children. Our focus is on 4 bible lessons including Joseph and God's continued care, Jesus' birth, the lost sheep and Daniel in the lions den.

We will be helping the school age children while they are in school (there is a school on the grounds) with school work and crafts.

Men will be mentoring with the teen boys nightly.Sports – structured sports program with teen boys daily.

Community Children’s Program -We will provide a children’s program Sunday afternoon when we arrive at the home for local children (4-13 yrs old). Our theme is Jesus is the light of the world - Jesús es la luz del mundo.



Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Where in the World is Woody? and Where God showed up #2

If you have not yet heard our hot water heater, aptly named Woodie - it burns wood. Is now in Guatemala awaiting customs and delivery to the LIFE home. Thank you for all your prayers on transportation getting it down to Guatemala.

Back in January we met with Dave Dvorak who runs the LIFE home with his wife Becky. His pressing need was for a water heater that could heat with wood, as they have wood as an available energy source, and could heat water quickly and for a short period of time so that during bath time the children could have warm water for bathing. Personally, I thought he was asking for the moon. I kept picturing these great big EXPENSIVE water heater "things" and then getting one to Guatemala?! We asked how much money he had to work with ,"none" was his reply. I did what I knew best and deligated this on to Mark McGinn and David Morales. I'm not silly, I know God puts people in our lives for a reason and I love to see how he will present opportunities to them. Here was an opportunity...
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