Well, we determined to build them a bed, and many of you after reading the last blog were moved to ask how you could help them. We bought the wood necessary for the bed and had our handy man make one in our garage that could be easily disassembled and reassembled.
Last week, we drove to Carcha to put the bed together. Here is what we found out. The family of four is now, sadly, a family of three. The father of the children left them, telling them he was going to look for work. He gave them a little bit of corn (for tortillas) and disappeared. They haven't heard from him in over a week.
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| Geoffrey and Julio unloading the wood at the entrance to the "neighborhood". |
Upon walking into their house we saw a couple dirty blankets piled up in the corner that apparently had been given them since we left their house the first time. Still the piece of nylon on the ground, still no bed.
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| The house before the bed. This is pretty much the whole house. |
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| Wondering what the white people are doing back at her house. |
She showed us where she wanted us to put the bed.
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| Julio and another guy putting the bed together for them. |
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| Checking out his new sleeping spot. |
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| It's nothing fancy, but it sure beats sleeping in the dirt! |
They were very grateful for their bed and I told them that there were some other people that mentioned wanting to help them out and that we'd let them know what happens with that. We gave them some clean, fresh blankets and combined with their other stuff, they shouldn't sleep too bad. Julio did a good job.
So that's the follow up story to our visit. Catarina is getting by, even without the man being there. It is probably because of you who prayed. I told her we'd be back to visit and I hope to hear from those of you who mentioned wanting to help. Catarina grew up an orphan herself, she is now 23. Victoria is 1 and Miguel is 4. Don't forget these faces, may they either haunt you or bless you.
Meanwhile, the Lord has been blessing us with some unexpected, but larger than normal donations and is getting us closer and closer to getting to start the children's home. I just learned of a very poor lady in our community who has three children and is carrying one in her womb that she very adamantly does not want. What a blessing it would be for us, for the child, and for her if there was a special home right here in her community that could take the newborn in and allow it to have a life full of love and being close enough to it's birth mother to have that relationship too. We have such a big task before us, but we have an even bigger God. Please don't just allow Him to lay things on your heart, but allow Him to show you and guide you in following through with what He lays on your heart. Let's be doers of the Word and together we will make a difference!
Glory House will be a place of celebration, and it will be because of people like you who are moved to action!
Praying for you,
Jenna
P.S. - I am proud to say that I have been successful in horticulture lately and am currently growing 18 apple trees, 23 lemon trees, 4 mango trees, 19 poinsettias, 3 injerto trees (I don't know what that is in English), 1 Bougainvilia plant (which will turn into more), a thyme plant (which should spread quickly), a cinnamon tree, a eucalyptus tree, a banana tree, some potatoes, vegetable pears, and two trumpet vines. That's in addition to my 28 Cypress trees and my 85 Eugenia bushes. We also have two Avocado trees on our property, one is full grown, and a full grown injerto tree. There is another fruit tree too, but I don't know what it is. It's kinda fun. Hopefully we will reap a harvest when we have the kids here and it will cut back on costs. But if nothing else, it will teach them that hardwork and patience pays off. All we can do is plant the seed, water it properly, and pray for God to make it grow!
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