Here in Tegucigalpa, school begins in a few short weeks from now. We will be busy buying school supplies and materials and ensuring each child is enrolled in school (a requirement of the program). Our Day Care centers will be operational starting February 11/08. We have 42 new children (age 3-6) enrolled at Centre 2 and 18 at Centre 1. We do everything we can to assist the teachers to get set up for the programs. Many of the supplies have been donated.

Training will start February 1^st for our teachers who will be helping us gather information and profiling the children for the sponsorship program. We depend on them to help us determine the needs of each child.

Translators are still a primary concern. There is a shortage of totally bilingual interpreters and translators that we can depend on.

Sadly enough, some of the little children in the program who graduated from the Day Care last year, are still waiting to see if they can get in school. Public schools are full and we still don’t have a school of our own. More and more we realize how important it is for a child to get an education. Then and only then can we have any sort of impact on breaking this heart wrenching cycle of poverty.

We take so much for granted that a child can go to school in Canada and get a free education. Not so here. They attend up to grade 6, if they can get in and if the parents feel like sending them. The education system itself is not up to North American standards. Far from it. SO the chances of them getting a good solid start in life already are against them.

Our personal dream is to open a Christian School to see these little ones have the best start in life that we can give them

Some of things that limit us from opening a Christian School here in Tegucigalpa Honduras are:

In the meantime, God knows the plans and everything happens in HIS timing. He holds the keys to all the closed doors and He will open them when the time is right.

We can only do what we can to try and make things better for these precious little ones here. We have learned to work with what we have and make a difference to the best of our abilities, one child at a time.

We don’t get hung up on drawbacks, roadblocks and things that seem to hinder the work from going forth. We know that what we do is not in our own hands but in the Lords. Therefore, we just press on, persevere and persist.

Thank you once again for helping us help the children. We could not do it without you.

I hope your Holiday Season was a blessing and that you enjoyed spending time with your families. I am so blessed to have a family that loves me so much and believe me the feeling is totally mutual… I least I think it is. LOL.

The time we spend together is so precious and always brings warm fuzzies to my heart.It's a wonderful thing to know that our family relationships are strong and a very important part of our lives.