Newsletter / September 05

The summer was wonderfully busy for the children and for the many guests the Lord brought to our little town. We had over ten teams visit in a two month period. The visits were wonderful and we had two houses built for two moms and their children to move into as they move out of Casa Del Pastor and into their new lives. We also had considerable work done on Phase II, the new dorms and kitchen that will house many more moms and their precious children to be safe in and to live. Our local church, Calvary Chapel Horizonte also benefited from the summer teams as the floor was laid and 18 foot high walls were erected, three of the four walls are standing and plans are already in place for the final wall. It is so exciting to see God building his church here in San Vicente, in buildings, but more importantly in the lives of his sheep. The visiting teams brought crafts, dramas, plays Bible stories, sports, music, worship and other terrific activities and blessings for our 11 moms and 67 children who call Casa Del Pastor home. The children are back in school now but have many sweet memories of their summer at CDP.


King’s Kids Visit His Kingdom in the States!

The Lord allowed little Jesus to visit old friends and make new friends as he came up with his mom to have surgery, however, the surgery to separate his two webbed fingers was postponed again. The Lord says "I know the plans I have for you, plans to help you and not to harm you, to give you a hope and a future". Jeremiah 29:11 We might not have the same time schedule that God has, but we can trust that His timing is perfect and that He loves us. Jesus’ surgery is rescheduled for October and his friends in the states will look forward to the five year old’s bright smile and cheery "Hola’s!".

Jesus and Pilar were also able to come to the United States in August and they were able to act as ambassadors for Christ as Pilar shared her testimony at three churches in Florida, including three services in one church! It was an exciting time for them as neither had flown before, but it was an opportunity to allow others to share in the special work being done at Casa Del Pastor. Jeanie, Lisa, Jesus and Pilar made the trip as guests of Calvary Chapel, Emerald Coast. God’s timing is perfect as they arrived during a beautifully calm week, sandwiched between two weeks of hurricanes! As they enjoyed the calm weather and sweet fellowship they marveled at God’s loving kindness as they were treated royally as King’s Kids by the wonderful brothers and sisters at Calvary Chapel, Emerald Coast in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.

Jeanie’s Lambs

At the present time, Jeanie is personally mothering 7 children! Five are Marilu’s children, she has left and Jeanie hopes she will visit, she has only visited once. Two others, Eloy and Beto, refused to go with their mother into their mother’s abusive boyfriend’s home. They are safe with Jeanie and their mother comes and visits each week. We continue to pray for her to follow God’s plan and to make Godly choices.

Passports Are Needed-Don’t Wait!

Over the past 14 years there have been a lot of questions about the passports and visas that should be obtained before entering Baja, California, Mexico. It has always been assumed that there has been so much tourism in Baja California that Visa and passports were not needed and that an American driver’s license would be sufficient to return back into the United States at the Mexico-American border. However, in light of 9-11 and the recent acts of terrorism all over the world, this will change. According to our information there will be heightened security requirements at the border and passports and or visas will be required to reenter the United States of America. That is you will be able to visit me but you’ll have to stay. I would strongly recommend obtaining your United States Passport, it is a good idea to obtain that now so you will be prepared as we have heard that it will be needed as early as 2006. The groups and individuals who visit and minister to the moms and children at Casa Del Pastor are our life support and we don’t want to see that cut off.

Prayer Requests

Christmas will be here soon and our shoebox ministry needs to be underway shortly.

A certain mom in our Casa has gotten involved with a married man and lives are being destroyed, there are three adults and six children involved in the two families. Please pray for repentance and healing.

Marilu’s five children, especially her little five year old.

Prayer for Kevin‘s (our heart "baby) mom and dad because they are separated. We don’t know were he is at right now, but our prayers can go with him for his safety,

Prayer for Jeanie’s deteriorating knees, she asks for help with the pain, as well as wisdom for the doctors and healing.

Prayer for healing and help for Jeanie’s asthma, the daily dose of medication is costly.

Faithful financial support for Jeanie, the children count on it to provide their basic needs.

Needs

Big industrial sized cooking pots and skillets.

Spoons, forks, plastic cups and plates.

Bibles for Youth in Spanish

Illustrated Bibles for children in Spanish.

Strong folding tables

Strong folding chairs

Heavy patio chairs for our outside area

White knee hi socks for girls ages 5-14.

White crew socks for boys aged 5-14

White T-shirts



To Contact Jeanie!

Phone: (619) 241-9161

Email: 2jspnmex@telnor.net

Newsletter / June 05

Little Jesus

"Mi amigo!" shouts little four year old Jesus as his face lights up! He runs excitedly to one friend after another. This scene was repeated several times as little Jesus greeted several old friends at Calvary Chapel, San Bernardino. Little Jesus lives at Casa del Pastor and was visiting the states on a medical visa for a doctor�s appointment. While he and his mom were here they were blessed with a trip to Disneyland and to see a play at the Christian Arts Theater in Corona.Jesus was born with two fingers fused together and comes with his mom Pilar to the Shriner�s hospital. He is scheduled for surgery in September 2005. Although the Lord allowed his fingers to be fused together it was apparent that the Lord has also fused his heart together to his many friends from Calvary Chapel Red Barn in San Bernardino as he saw and greeted the many friends who have come down to Mexico to assist in the Casa del Pastor ministry. It is amazing to see how the Lord brings one person along side the other and the difference each person can make. God has called us to love each other and to further His kingdom and I have a special thank you to every person who is involved in this ministry at Casa del Pastor. To those who come down and help paint or build things for the moms and kids. To the faithful whose monthly and other donations support and feed the moms and children. To the ones who pray for us and lift us up in prayer. Thank you. As Jesus said excitedly as he was passed from one friend to another "Mi amigos!" Please know that you are part of his joy.

Marjorie McPhillips

"Well done, good and faithful servant!" These are the words we long to hear when we enter heaven�s gates. Marjorie McPhillips is an example of one of God�s good and faithful servants. Marjorie has been a missionary for over 24 years. She lives in San Vicente and we have had wonderful fellowship together. Marjorie has had some serious health problems lately, but the Lord has graciously brought her through thus far. Marjorie is 80 years old and needed artery surgery.

After she came home to San Vicente she felt that she was having a heart attack. After she was taken to a hospital in San Diego it was found that she did indeed had had a heart attack. She ended up having a quadruple bypass, but wonderfully came through and is making such a rapid recovery that the doctor�s are amazed. She was out of intensive care in 12 hours, within 24 hours she was sitting up chatting to the nurses and even walking down the hall. She was discharged in only four days because she was doing so well! She is actually out of the hospital and is renting a room in San Diego for a few months while she recovers with a home care nurse. Please pray for her steady recovery and her ongoing walk with the Lord. Lisa and Jeanie are going to visit her and bring her any items that she needs .

Call Jeanie!

Jeanie was very excited to be blessed with a cell phone that has an American number so her friends can call her...but so far nobody has! She longs to hear your voice and will tell you if she can�t talk, so call her! Please use this number instead of any other one that you might have. Why don�t you program it right now into your cell phone and write it in your address book. Then call her!

(619) 241-9161. She also is back on line, email her at:

2jspnmex@telnor.net

School Supplies Needed:

With approximately 71 children at Casa Del Pastor, the majority who are school aged, you can imagine the need for school supplies! Schools in Mexico generally do not provide any school supplies, the children must have their own. This actually keeps quite a few children from attending. As part of giving the children a "hope and a future" all of the children at Casa Del Pastor attend school, even through high school and some onto college! This is not the norm, these children are very lucky to be able to continue their education, but they do need school supplies. Right now is a good time to look at the list and pick up some extra that are on sale at Walmart or Target etc. Call Jeanie and she�ll help you arrange on how to get them to her. Thank you!

Prayer Requests

Group Season is here and pray that their time here will be led by the Lord.

Stephen Clark�s heart operation .

Marilu�s five children, especially her little five year old.

Prayer for Kevin �s (our heart "baby) mom and dad because they are separated.

Faithful financial support for Jeanie, the children count on it to provide their basic needs.

Needs

Big industrial sized cooking pots and skillets.

Spoons, forks, plastic cups and plates.

Camping tents (with all parts please)

Sleeping bags

Bibles for Youth in Spanish

Illustrated Bibles for children in Spanish.

Strong folding tables

School Supplies:

Lots of spiral notebooks

Pencils

Lined paper

Pens

Highlighters

Erasers

Scissors

Geometry sets

5-10 Scientific Calculators

Backpacks

Folders

Lots of colored pencils

White socks (girls knee hi�s and boy�s crew)

White T-shirts

Crayons



Matthew 6:33

Newsletter / May 05

Capilla Calvario/Horizonte (Calvary Chapel-San Vicente)

One of our biggest prayers answered through the years has been the establishing of a systemic Bible teaching church, here in San Vicente. Not only for our families but for our community. The Lord established Calvary Chapel-Capilla Calvario/Horizonte with our beloved Pastor Kiki. Before there was our own Calvary Chapel, we used to load everybody from Casa Del Pastor on the bus each Sunday and travel over an hour to Ensenada to attend a Calvary Chapel there! Now, with our own home church here in San Vicente, we can be much more involved! The church is on the move, in its physical location. We were renting three rooms in a building, but the owner asked us to vacate two of the three rooms. As you can imagine, the church has quite a large children�s ministry, so we needed more than one room total! Pastor Kiki called a board meeting and we prayed and discussed the matter. Well, a large warehouse was offered to us, free of charge! The Lord has his plans as always. He will lead and guide our church! The new property, that the Lord provided, is being prepared, and Lord willing, a floor for the sanctuary will be poured within a month and in another month, a church is planning on coming to install the walls for us. Finally, a roof will go up within four months! This is the schedule we are praying for, please join us in this pray request for our new church home! In the meantime, the church is going to meet in two houses temporarily. The Lord is good and it is our ultimate prayer that His will be done. It is an incredible thing to see His work here in San Vicente. He not only cares for our own families at Casa Del Pastor, but the whole town! I know that He has good plans for your too, always remember to seek Him

FM-3 Visa

Every year I need to get permission to remain in Mexico. For the first five years in Mexico, I had no idea that I needed this permission. However, for the past nine years, I have prayerfully receive this permission, called at FM-3 Visa. It took 3 1/2 years to receive the first permission due to many technicalities. It is that time of the year again. I need your fervent prayers. This paperwork takes a great deal of time and energy. Could you pray for this FM3, it makes a big difference! Thanks!



Sandra

She had come from Tijuana and is a mild mannered, quiet and gentle woman. When she arrived, over a year ago, she was very scared, worried mainly for her three children. The youngest boy, her seven years old, was so tramautized that he was incontinent, and the other two were terrified and not talking. Five years earlier, she had been at Casa Del Pastro because her husband had been involved with drugs. When her husband had gone to drug rehab and had seemed to be doing better, she had returned to him. When she returned to him, she�d hoped that he would remain clean. However, five years later, she came back, but the damage to her children wasgreat and only the Grace of God could heal her children�s hurts. Sandra was a broken woman and was seeking the Lord, for herself and for her children. One of the most important things we do is provide a peaceful and Godly atmosphere for the moms and children to heal. Sandra and her children have been with us for over a year. She is growing in the Lord and her children are settled and confident. There has been a big change in all of her family, the have "a hope and a future". God is changing lives here, please continue to pray and support Sandra and all of the mother�s and children here. You are involved in making a difference here in Mexico!.

Help Jeanie

Jeanie�s database of addresses had a technical problem. She needs everybody to resend their name and address to her email at: 2jspnmex@telnor.net. Not only your name and address, but anybody else that you know who usually receives Jeanie�s newsletter or who would like to receive Jeanie�s newsletter. Her prayers and her financial support are very much tied to this newsletter, so having everybody�s name and address is vitally important.

Prayer Requests

Group Season is here and pray that their time here will be led by the Lord.

Our vision for a new, private school to serve not only our children here at Casa Del Pastor, but to provide quality Christian education to the community as well. This exciting vision needs lots of prayers to become reality. We need an association de civil as well as to meet many legal requirements and paperwork. Pray the Lord will bring teachers willing to serve!

Faithful financial support for Jeanie, the children count on it to provide their basic needs.

Needs

Big industrial sized cooking pots and skillets.

Spoons, forks, plastic cups and plates.

Camping tents (with all parts please)

Sleeping bags

Bibles for Youth in Spanish

Illustrated Bibles for children in Spanish.

When this newsletter comes to you many people have worked to get it there. There have been illnesses, communication and technical problems for our team. Alicia, Dave, Becky and Stephen have been a faithful team over the years. I am forever grateful to each one of them who work to share this work of the Lord with you. Thank you.

Matthew 6:33

Newsletter / April 05

Marilu And Her Children

We have a history of seven years with this certain mom, Marilu. She came to us seven years ago because she was pregnant and at the end of her resources. She had five of her children with her and was carrying her 9th child (2 children had died and relatives were raising a third).

She has been a challenge to minister to because she is so apathetic. A few years ago we saw that she was also a very angry person and has harmed her own children because of that anger. We had to do crisis intervention and she went in and out of counseling because of her apathy.

Finally, after 5 years, 2 years ago, she told us that the father of her 5 year old was asking her to come back to him. She felt that he would take care of her and her children. She was gone only 3 weeks and then returned saying she wanted her children to remain at Casa Del Pastor so they could continue in the special school they had been attending. I agreed on the condition that she would visit regularly. I started raising the children and she did not visit. Then after a year she returned, upset and hurt, saying the man was mistreating her (which he had done before). She asked for a new chance, . After much prayer, I agreed that she could stay. However, within a few days it came out that she was carrying her 10th child. I was not surprised. She had known this and had deceived me.

This woman is very apathetic in her mothering skills and the school had noticed the radical change in her children when she was around. The children actually appear more secure and able to learn when the mother was not present than when she is at Casa Del Pastor. Marilu finally returned to the man. I had really wanted to see her seek counseling and change, but it was not happening.

Now her 10th child is 1 year old and she returned asking to come back to Casa Del Pastor. I said no. I asked that she find a room to rent to be near, but she could not live here at Casa Del Pastor as it has a negative affect on her children. She had been here 6 weeks but had made no effort to find a room. Even when a trailer became available and was offered rent free to her, she refused.

I did not want to take legal action against this woman, but I did not want to jeopardize her children?s welfare, either I have been raising these children,: Juan, Reyna, Fransisco (Pancho), Isabel and Celia for two years and have become their adoptive mom. I need prayer for wisdom and Marilu needs prayer also to get right with Jesus and to be led by Him. Please join me in prayer for this delicate situation.

Note: Before this was sent to print, Marilu left CDP while I was away. She left 5 of her children in my care. Prayer is still needed, thank you.



Sad News

Lucia, mother of Ezequiel, Susana, Gilbert, William, Fedencio, and Jeanie has gotten involved with a man. She left with all of her children without thinking of their safety, security or welfare. She is not at peace or involved with the Lord's counsel. We are praying that she realizes her error before her children are harmed. Please pray for her and her children.

Praise Reports

Casa Del Pastor continues to thrive! We have 15 families, including 79 children. Our children continue to receive top honors in the schools, thanks in part to our intensive schooling/tutoring program run by our teacher missionary Chelah. The children continue to grow healthy and strong in their bodies, minds and in the Lord with daily Bible stories, and weekly church services and Bible Club meetings.

The Lord has done much these last 13 or so years! Now there is a busy Calvary Chapel in our small town ministering not only to our families but to the whole community. Our Phase II building is going forward and it will house 30 families. And, the Lord has given us a strong desire to open up a private Christian bilingual school for our children and for those in the community! We are starting to pray and plan for it. We want only excellent things for our children here "to give them a hope and a future".

Our moms are involved in many endeavors, including our own restaurant as well as other businesses. They are busy saving their money to buy their own plot, have a house built and continue to rebuild their lives. And Casa Del Pastor is a big part of this and you with your prayers and financial support are also a big part in God?s amazing work down here at Casa Del Pastor