Sis Maria meets the need (light blue shirt)

..serving, at risk children,most will go home to dirt floors.

2008 Christmas caroling at Las Glorias...

K-4 taught by Mrs. Maria Rivera,the children feel the holiday excitement... ...Maria with her children...and they do like to huddle about!

...they call out "Tee-chur"...they come ready for what the day will bring...

...the poiensettia tree with full color call out the winter season, in Central america...

...the students helped us celebrate my birthday, we had cake and coffee, pics of today's events are included. We had a thick fog today that covered Lake Yojoa Bilingual School, the poinsettia tree is showing the color of the season, the rains announce December in Honduras, it is so beautiful here, but the poverty is huge and the workers few, but i feel that the future holds blessings as our time and goals unfold, i do not feel as old as i am, accept on cold days like this week has been, we are knitting relations and strong ties with the "catrachos" (Hondurans) as they treat us like family, today our beloved Emely and her mother Ana made banana leaf tamales for us to eat, they were wonderful! THANK YOU Maria, my wife,for the sweet things you do for me...

Pray with us as we pray about "opening doors" with our next door neighbors: "Friends of Barnabas Foundation" , you can learn more about them at www.fobf.org. An opportunity to reach out to recuperating children of genetic defects, has been presented to us at CCPena Blanca. The foundation would like to sponsor "Art Therapy" for children healing from heart and other surgery. Once a week, working with Calvary Chapel Pena Blanca, we could have up to 20 children w/parents doing art projects which in the "words" (paraphrased) of President and Founder, Linwood G. Cook, "speed the healing and recouperation of our little patients and parents! Linwood, met with Eulogio and I today asking us to prayerfully consider opening a wing of our childrens ministry to them and in exchange they help us set up childrens minisrtry and furnishings, I looked at Eulogio and asked him if he was ready for such an undertaking - as he stands along side me, in this mission field, he knods the affrimitive. We are excited, and anticipate the opportunities that will be availble to those whom I send this e-mail to, "Barnabas Clinic" also has plans to build a 100 bed hospital on a purchased site in front of the present location! It seems as though "neat" things are happening...in HIS service...chris and maria rivera