Something For You ... Something For Me

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Published: Thursday, 12 January 2012 16:46

Written by Corina Clements Soria

 Something for you:  Heidi made up a power point/video that we are sending to the local churches – talking about our needs for the year, asking them to get involved...  She made up an English version that she put on her facebook/and her dad passed on...  This is the link so you can watch it too...

“Here is a video presentation Heidi put together on behalf of el Jordan - set to a Spanish translation of a well known song.  The subtitles are all in English for this version - another version is in Spanish as the presentation is being distributed to churches in Santa Cruz as a prayer request for workers.  As you watch it, you will have a good sense of areas and items you can be praying for in the ministry there - who knows, maybe there is a place for you to use your gifts and minister alongside Heidi and Corina (short term, or longer)  :-)

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God's Provision, Step By Step

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Published: Tuesday, 20 December 2011 16:46

Written by Corina Clements Soria

2,700 Christmas goody bags... done
70 round roasts... ready and carved in the freezer
500 pounds of rice...  promised
20 stalks of frying bananas... we pick them up tomorrow
300 chickens... half of them being “sacrificed” as I write – the rest - tomorrow night
Borrowed ovens... we’ll pick up the last two tomorrow<br/ >Donations: God is providing day by day what we need...
Locations of “Christmas on the Streets”: most of them confirmed...
People on the Streets: waiting

Well... everything is coming along well...  I’m sure we’ll be busy on Friday night (cooking all night)... and Saturday (serving/delivering by noon... and then clean up)... but really, so far, after a couple years of preparing 5000 + gifts and plates of food, this feels like a breeze...  We feel like we should be doing more – but everything is on schedule...

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Tail Mix ... A Few Little Updates

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Published: Thursday, 15 December 2011 16:46

Written by Corina Clements Soria

Christmas on the Streets is only a bit over a week away…  Preparations are going very smoothly (except for my printer giving out right when I needed to print some things off... and some troubles getting in our order from the candy factory).  We’ve actually had to tell El Jordán volunteers to hold off wrapping gifts and bagging the “popped corn” because we need to have things for people from the churches (and our students) who want come and help out...

Yesterday, a lady, Martha, came with 6 teenagers (spending almost 2 hours on bus to get here) to spend the day helping us with  Christmas on the Street  preparations ... They brought a donation – not “large” by American standards – but sacrificial on their part...  For the last couple years, they were recipients of “Christmas on the Streets”...  This year, they’re not only preparing their own meal for outreach in their neighborhood, they came back to help us...  The first year Martha received “Christmas on the Streets”  for a group of extremely poor kids whose parents would leave them alone all day because they had to work...   She was a new Christian who felt compelled to serve and reach others for the Lord in spite of attending a “more established” church where the norm was to “sit” and be comfortable...

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Catch Up Updates from Bolivia

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Published: Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:46

Written by Corina Clements Soria

Later today I am travelling to New Jersey!!!  A supporting church there invited us to their mission’s conference...  For a while the trip was up in the air because of our little lemon acting up... but the doctor (and second opinion) both think that I am “fit to travel” as long as I’m careful and don’t lift my bags... I picked up my renewed passport just this week... but Keiden’s paperwork which was submitted in July isn’t back yet...

 I’m travelling alone this time because:

· paperwork not complete for the “boys”

· it’ll be easier for me to “take it easy” without Keiden being clingy with so many changes - and me not being able to pick him up...

· the workshops aren’t done yet and Marco really needs to be here right now...

· between several weeks bed/couch rest and being down to one vehicle between us  (Marco’s pickup is STILL in the shop – its now 3 weeks longer than originally promised.) everything got pushed back and we just weren’t ready for all of us to travel...

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