This past week, I had the privilege of spending an afternoon at Rayitos De Luz- a children's home that B2B has been involved with for only a short time now.  This is little Fany- clearly she's so cute you could just melt when she jumps on you and wants you to hug her.  more photos and info to come on this home... i'll be there a lot next week.  The children here are absolutely beautiful, so sweet, respectful, cute, and really really smart.  
To the right is a photo of the outside of the old Rayitos De Luz casa hogar which means "little rays of light children's home."   if you'd like to hear a little more, check out their website:  www.littleraysoflight.com
The inside of their old home.  The conditions were so bad, some of the biological parents of these children started to threaten to take the kids back from the casa hogar if their living conditions did not improve.  In a lot of situations, that might sound like the best thing for the kids- to be back with their biological parents.  However, this isn't always the case with many of the children we serve.  Their parents are abusive or simply do not have the means to feed them and look after them.  Often, a Christian run casa hogar is the best option.  But God had a plan all along and it's a beautiful story of how he demonstrates his love for us. 
This is Fany one year ago playing with me in the park by her old home.   With B2B's help, this casa hogar was able to rent a better home on their same street until money could be raised to build them a new home.  A recent Family Christian Stores - James Fund cruise fundraiser raised over $100,000 for their new home.  I got to go to their new home this week.  It is beautiful and they call it "the promise land."
Again, Fany 1 year ago at her first home.   We blew bubbles all afternoon and read mexican appropriate books for a 3 year old like "feliz cumpleanos martin luther king."  do they even know who MLK is?  well they do now because we read it a lot.

Prayer Requests:

-  safety for a worker's family who does construction on this newer home

- my comprehension of 4 and 5 year olds speaking spanish would improve

- that i would live in the moment and take advantage of opportunities