October has just flown by!
We have been very busy this past month making plans with Benjamin & Elias Brito, the first two guys who will move in with us at the end of the year. We’re raising support for Elias as he will be finishing his last year of high school, and we have a newsletter which you can read here. We had guys stay at our house almost every weekend this month and I was able to stay with the boys at Casa Shalom this past weekend. God blessed our time together with many great conversations.
We still haven’t received the final land title from the municipality office where we live. It’s an election year, and so everything seems to move extra slow! But I think that it’s actually a blessing because we’ve been able to be much more focused on the boys and our ministry that will take place inside the house than on the actual house itself. So the delay has allowed us to be much more focused on building a different kind of foundation!
It’s been an incredibly wet month because a tropical storm dumped rain on us for almost two weeks, which caused many mudslides and displaced thousands of families. We’re grateful for God’s protection and relieved that the storm has passed.
Here are our blog posts for October:
Our prayer requests for November:
- Continued prayer as we plan how the house will function, and as we talk to the guys who will live with us.
- Prayer that we can get the land title and that God will provide the finances necessary to build the houses.
- We will be traveling to the USA on the 17th to spend Thanksgiving with my family and return to Guatemala the first week of December.
- We will be sending out a newsletter while in the States in order to secure funding for ourselves for this coming year.
- Prayer that Yuliza and I have enough time together as a couple and that we always keep our eyes fixed on Jesus.
Thank you so much for your prayers for us this past month! We are very grateful for all of the prayers and support that we’ve received. It’s such an exciting time for us as we make plans to start the halfway house. And we need your prayers so that we can clearly hear God’s will.
Brent
Martin just finished sixth grade (as mentioned in this post) and now will begin junior high. We live close to a very good public school which is like a magnet or charter school in the United States, and we have a niece and a nephew that go to it. Martin is an incredibly bright guy and a very hard worker, and he hopes to also attend there. So he stayed with us for a weekend two weeks ago in order to study and prepare for the entrance exam which he took the Monday before we traveled to the USA. The exam was very difficult, and very few pass it. But we hope that Martin gets the opportunity. In this picture he is studying hard with Yuli’s sister Veronica at our house.
