Dateline September 1, 2013

August was another very busy month at Promise Home with five teams here in three weeks.

It started with Jim and Sandra Murphy coming to help with construction projects and to look at the possibility of serving in the mission field full time after retirement.

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Jim has lead teams for years to Honduras and led a team to Promise Home this spring.  They spent the week working on projects for the new casita and assisted other construction teams here.

We also had a team lead by Jeremy Breaud from the Genesis Church in Frisco Texas.

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They had taken on the challenge of building the entire perimeter fence around the new children’s casita.  They were here in March and completed half of the fence and returned to finish the fence which they proudly completed.

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In mid August, we had Dean Donat and Matt Stallup from the River Church in Branson, Missouri.  The River Church had committed to pay for and build the septic system for the children’s casita.  However, during the week that Dean and Matt were here, it rained about every day so they worked on installing culverts and other projects that they could do between rain storms.

Also in mid August, we had the Frisco Sunrise Rotary team here led by Andy Eskildsen.

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The Rotary team worked with the San Pedro Sula Rotary club to install a deep water well to provide water to Promise Home and to the El Portillo village.  The water well drilling was a success and Andy’s team came to provide additional water lines to the village and to build Promise Home a water pump house.

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The men in our village were eager to assist in the installation of the additional water lines.

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The extra water line and the water well is a very big deal for this poor village.  In their free time, the team installed five pilas to homes and schools in our village,

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distributed clothing to people in our village,

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showed a Jesus Film aimed at reaching the children in our village and gave us a suitcase full of new Spanish children’s books for two local schools.

The final team to arrive this month at Promise Home was a pastors team from the Heights Church from Richardson, Texas led by Pastor Miguel Lopez.  Other members of the pastor team were Gary Singleton, Bill Ferrell and Bo Behenna.

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This team was here to look at the opportunities that are available to expand God’s ministry by working with our Promise Home church as well as other pastors in our area.   They were able to meet with area pastors and a church planter to better understand their needs and their opportunities.

At the end of this month, we will begin the construction of our second building, the kitchen/laundry building.  God has blessed us with great teams and the financial resources to accomplish these tasks.

Bill Hayden

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