High School in Bolivia

This year Andrew is enrolled at Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center, the mission school in this part of Bolivia. There are around 240 students in the high school, about half Bolivian and half missionary kids. This weekend was the big Junior/Senior banquet. At SCCLC, everyone is invited. Here is a picture of Andrew with his proud parents.

Talita Cumi Board

Since the earliest days of our work in Bolivia, Jeanie has been involved with the Talita Cumi Children's Home. Last night we had the board over for dinner on the occasion of the visit of some friends from the U.S.

Talita Cumi is home to 30-35 orphaned or abandoned children. They learn, perhaps for the first time, how to live as part of a family. They learn about God's love for them and have constant encouragement academically, emotionally and socially.

This is a photo of the Talita Cumi Board for 2008. That's Jeanie seated on the left.

Finding Christians in the USA

Several weeks ago one of our JESUS Film student volunteers, Saul, left for the University of Arkansas on a Fulbright Scholarship. Saul comes from a humble part of Santa Cruz, Plan 3000, where he lived with his mother. He is really a great guy who wants to know the Lord more deeply.
He wrote to me after a week in Arkansas and told me that he was a little lonely. I called Jason, a Campus Crusade staff member in Fayetteville and asked him to invite Saul to their weekly meeting. The U.Ark. CCC Campus Director, Tim Casteel, wrote back and said that Saul had a great time.

Here is what Saul wrote me today:
"First you have to tell me how you knew? (that I attended the CRU meeting at U. Ark.) Well I am going to tell you something about the meeting, it was really good, approximately 150 young people, they have a band, and there is just one word to describe it, it was awesome. Besides, a preacher came from Oklahoma, and he was really funny explaining the gospel. Furthermore they talk about their next trip that they are going to have to Thailand, they do the same things that we do in Bolivia, and I felt like if I was in Sirari. It’s wonderful to see many people around the world that are adoring the lord, different cultures, different languages, but they are looking for the same like us in Bolivia. Thank you for being in contact with me, sometimes I feel alone, and its good to receive news from Bolivia. Please say hello to everybody in the group and God bless all of you."

I am just so thankful for God's people around the world. Please pray for Saul as he works to adjust to life in the USA and as he continues to grow in the Lord.

Ron