Dear Friends,
We are aware as a team of all the efforts to continue to raise our support. As I have share with you we are closely watching what we spend and how we spend it.
VIM.
Las week we were at VIM, doing our monthly trip to take groceries and to be with Juanita and Isaac. We had a very productive time and they have agreed to stay for the next school year. Both of them are doing a superb job of caring and loving for the children. I have told them that VIM is looking and working much better since they have taken over. They have currently at 18 students they were pleading to us to accept one more boy that is from the village of Cocoyol. So total, not including their children, we will have 19 boys and girls. I am attaching and updated Excel spread sheet of their information.
Shelter.
We have 12 young men going to a University, Merida Tech, or Seminary. We have 12 sharp young men that have a clear vision of what they want to do career wise. Oveth as some of you know, is a Licensed Pastor, continues to help the boys to mature and grow in the Lord.
Confraternidad is doing well. I had lunch with Gerardo last week and both Patty and I are involved in the Children´s ministry and we help every Sunday with the children´s sermon. I am also helping Frank Pool with the youth in Confraternidad.
Patty is doing great, she is thinking on doing a Masters in preschool teaching. Andre is doing great school and doing Karate (just like his dad). Maya is doing ballet, she is beautiful, just like her mother, she is in second great in preschool and she is a smart as a whip.
Personally I have been very busy. The 15th of December of 2008 I presented a dissertation work (130 pages) to get certified as a Social Anthropologist in the University of Yucatan, my alma mater. It took me about 7 to 8 months to finish my research and then write it. I also took a seminar with one of my teachers from Seminary in the US. He was here sponsored by S. Paul Seminary it was a great and refreshing time for me. The pastors, my father’s colleagues, are encouraging me to continue with the process of becoming a Pastor. I am planning to go back to seminary (San Pablo Seminar) here in Merida and finish my Masters, and then pray to see if the Lord wants me to become a pastor.
Please continue to pray for us.
In Christ.
Oscar Dorantes, Anthropologist (price the Lord!)