This month my team is in San Salvador,
the capital of El Salvador.
We’re working with a man from Oregon,
Bob, and his wife. They started a girl’s home and a boy’s home for orphans over
20 years ago, called “Mi Casa.” Up until last year, Bob would come down here
every couple of months to visit the kids and staff. Then last year he and his wife
decided to move down here to be closer to their kids. It isn’t like an
orphanage at all. The kids are raised as a family. The first generation of kids
that they raised is all grown up. The youngest is 18 and is in college, some
others are in business and one became a doctor. So we’re living with 9
beautiful girls ages 4 to 14, and 6 younger boys, along with a few now in
college, live right across the street.
It’s been so much fun just living alongside them and
spending time with them. They have school in the morning, in the afternoon we
try to help with their homework sometimes and after they’re finished we
get to play!
There are a couple of parks nearby we been to, we’ve gone to the beach, and
watched movies.
Last week we washed all the walls downstairs so that we
could paint them, and the girls jumped right in to help us. We’re going to
paint a banner with a verse on it in the living room and a beach scene in the
dining room.
God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber
the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with You.”
