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.



Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Trying to blend

It's mid week since we came back and I am resuming my role as mom, teacher (a conference next week to prepare for), friend and relative, etc. it's good to be back but I must confess most of my thinking is spent on Guatemala and how I'm going to live my life integrating my experiences there with my day to day life. "Blending" is a good description or perhaps "seeping". Both of my worlds are seeping into each other in ways that I don't always expect. For example while in Guatemala I thought continually of Sam, my 14 year old son and how he would have loved to play with the boys and how he would have felt so comfortable being with kids. Now here I am constantly thinking of Tamar and Andres and Yuli ... it's complicated. I know God is working on my heart and my desire to spend more time learning about Jesus' journey and personal life has blown the doors wide open on my own path to a higher understanding of who Jesus was and is. Unexpected is another word to describe where I'm at...
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