Answered Prayers at Douglas

I just wanted to encourage all of you who have been praying for Douglas and especially since we as a staff team started asking for prayer warriors to cover the home in prayer last February. There have been many, many changes at Casa Hogar Douglas in the last 10 months and I believe that it is in direct connection to your prayers and all of you who committed to pray and fast for Douglas last February. I spend almost every day of my time here in Monterrey at Douglas. Sometimes, it's too easy to get caught up in my daily responsibilities of child care to reflect adequately on all God has done to drastically change Douglas for the better. God has sent a ton of new staff families - another one moved in last week. God has moved workers around so that there are awesome people in direct child care. He's given us a ton of shelter sponsors. We've been able to move a lot of the kids to new schools. Some of the kids are attending a school for kids with special needs in the afternoons and evenings. Their food is a world better because of the Shelter Program funds. They have hot water for their showers now that it's freezing and it's winter becuase of Shelter Program funds. The kids run and yell and practically push me out of my table when I get out the Shetler letters because they are so excited that maybe they received a letter. The church at Douglas now has a tuesday night youth group for all older kids. The biological families of the kids (if they have them) are being asked to be more involved with their kids and are visiting more often, staying longer and some are even taking their kids home for the weekends now. The Mexican government is getting more involved with the home and helping to regulate forms and programs to help the kids. Not everything is perfect there but a ton of changing and it's obvious to see how God has been moving at Douglas in these past 10 months.

Thank you for praying - keep your prayers coming. Here are some ways you can be praying for Douglas:

- For renewed energy each day for the workers to love and serve the kids

- For biological relatives of the kids to be more involved in their kid's lives

- For Javier - the director - to be a good leader and vocal

- For Jim and Betty (with B2B) to have good communication with the workers of the home

- For appropriate use of all funds to serve the kids in the best way possible

- For dentists and doctors to volunteer their time and services to serve the kids medically

- For tutors to help bring kids up to grade level in reading and in math

- For all the new workers - katy and Nacho, Isabel and Adrian, Lorena and her husband and all their kids to feel welcomed, valued, appreciated. For their ability to pour God's love into the kids, to be different than the other workers, to fight for justice on behalf of the kids and to always stand up for what is right. For their marriages and their families.

Thanks!