August 2007

On My Heart Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

The Lord has put the subject of suffering and
We wanted to update you on our status for
studying God’s word on my heart lately. In James 1:2-5
M exico. God has called us to this small
the writer tells us to “consider it pure joy, my brothers,
village in Jalisco, M exico. He has
whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you
prepared the way for our building, the
know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
architectural plans to be made up and
Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be ma-
allowed us to start building the Children’s
ture and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you
Home. Our friends, Pastor William and
lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously
Katie Cooke, have overseen the digging
to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.”
and construction of the building so far.
Suffering is a given for any Christian. It is how we react to
Soon, the orphaned children that are so
the suffering that will show how well grounded we have
important to God will have a safe country
become.
home to learn and grow in. They will be
I have learned the hard way that the best way to be
safely away from the influences of the big
prepared is to be in the Word daily. Even when you don’t
city. We are setting up a plan of care that
understand what the Word is saying. If we hide it in our
includes prayer, devotional time, meals,
hearts it will be of great value when the storms come. We
clothing, and other activities.
must pray, as James said, for wisdom. I recently heard a
sermon where the preacher admitted to not being in the
Word everyday. I was appalled! I thought “how could a
man of God, the pastor of a group of Christians, not de-
vote hours a day to the scripture! Then, I was convicted
to the core when I realized my own lack of devotion to
God’s Holy Word. Here I have been set apart for full-
time service and I was not devoting myself to reading the
Word and prayer. I implore you to examine your devo-
tion to the Word of God. It is all that is needed to get us
through the trials and to make us even stronger warriors
Walls of the Children’s Home
for the Cross. If you feel your suffering is too great to
are going up!
bear, lean on the Word.
When I feel that my suffering will overcome me,
I compare my trial to that of the Lord’s suffering. It is
really humbling when I read of Christ’s suffering in the
hours leading up to the Cross of Calvary. How my pa- As parents we are so blessed to feel this
thetic moans seem to disappear in the face of my Father’s call, but also quite overwhelmed. Not
pain! only do we have to raise the funds to
When God’s people read His Word, it has an effect continue the building of the Children’s
on the whole body. After Israel returned from the Babylo- Home, we need to raise support for our
nian captivity and rebuilt Jerusalem, Ezra brought out the family to live and do His work in M exico.
book of the Law of M oses and read it to the masses. They Our plans were to move by this Septem-
were so overcome by the word of God that they wept. I ber. As with all of man’s plans it is
pray that God’s Word will so pierce our souls that we ultimately up to God’s timetable. We are
break down and weep! not anywhere close to meeting our
September moving plans. We still need over
$55,000 to complete our building.

We come to you with a humble heart and ask

you to prayerfully consider supporting this
work. We are looking for 80 families to support
us with $20.00 a month. That is about the cost
of 2 pizzas or 1 Starbucks coffee each week.
M aybe you can sponsor us for more than that
amount. At this time we are looking for spon-
sors to help us fulfill our small part of the Great
Commission. We know that God’s money is
available for His use. Now, we are asking for
your help. We need your commitment now.
Please respond to us ASAP if you would like to
support us on a regular basis or if you cannot,
please let us know that you are lifting us in
prayer. Our mailings are expensive and time
consuming. We need to know who would like
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