Monthly Support Update–22%!!!

I’m going to be honest with you.  I am blown away.  God is so faithful and it makes me wonder why I ever doubt… and yet I do, time and time again.  About 3 weeks ago I put out a plea for monthly supporters for PDE because we were really at our financially end and I was stressed out and unsure of what to do or what steps to take.  Going into the new year I am happy to report that the Lord has provided $340 in monthly support as well as $4012 in one-time support that will be divided out to use per month for this calendar year.  In total that means we are at 22% of our monthly need for 2013.  Wow.  God is good.  And I have 3 people with monthly pledge promises coming, I just don’t know the amount yet.

If you don’t support us monthly, please consider picking up the $60/monthly to complete paying for our utilities or $115/month to finish out paying for rent.  Or pick a new category to start funding in part of completely.

From the bottom of my heart THANK YOU to those who have begun to support us, for those who have been praying, for those who have written with encouragement.  Thank you.  Please keep praying and sharing about this ministry as we see the Lord provide the rest of the needed funding.

6%… wow

The Lord has been so good this week to remind me that this ministry belongs to Him.  In every moment that I stress out about His provision, He already has a plan in mind.  In His timing and in His way, He is going to provide.  This ministry is His, these girls are His.  He is a father to the fatherless and fathers provide for their children. 

Thank you so much to those of you who have already contacted me in the last few days about partnering with us monthly.  In 3 days you have pledged $200 in monthly support so we are up to 6% funded monthly.  For just $20/month someone could finish off our monthly medical needs.  Thank you also in advance to those of you who will give or pray or spread the word for us. 

As Christmas is right around the corner I think its fitting to remember that God loves us, and these girls, in a very personal way.  So personal in fact that He came to live with us…

“The animals stood around his bed.  And the whole earth and all the stars and sky held its breath… ‘The One who made us has come to live with us!’” – Sally Lloyd Jones

He came to live with us and then gave us the most precious gift of all… more than food and medicine and education… Jesus’ righteousness and a place in the family of God.  Praise Him for it. 

Merry Christmas everyone!

Moving up!

I’m so happy to be able to report that we got $55 in monthly support pledged to PDE yesterday, which brings us up to 4% of our monthly need!  They choose to support part of our medical need every month, so if someone wants to give $95/month you could finish out our monthly need for medical care!  Thanks so much for your partnership.

S, not C

Some names here sound like they should start with a C and really start with an S.  Some names have always ended in S until you go to the bank and they open your account with your name ending with a Z.  People don’t know how to spell…

This time it was me… our sweet girl who came from Tegucigalpa is actually an S, not a C, which actually makes life way less confusing since we already have a C in the house!

Anyway, after spending a few days with her I wanted to give you an update.  First of all, I am so thankful for our friend Ericka who is involved with the Micah Project in Tegucigalpa and has a such a precious heart to help people in need.  She brought S up here this week and was just a shoulder for her lean on.

S loves it.  She wants to come.  We went to the doctor and the baby is growing.  I heard a baby’s heartbeat for the first time and I was super excited :)  S is healthy, although very underweight.  She has been really sick, but we got some prenatal vitamins, medicine for the nausea, and we ate lots of veggies!  She stayed the night with the girls at the house and I’m pretty sure they stayed up way too late talking.  We made Christmas cookies and she played with the babies.  I’m positive that it is more stable and caring environment than anything she has ever known.

Her mom is a different story… she didn’t come with her to visit and is certain now that she doesn’t want her to come.  She wanted her to come for 6 months enough for us to cover medical bills and the first sleepless nights and then send her home.  Well, our program doesn’t work that way.  And mom is not thinking through the costs of an infant, doctor visits, shots, sickness, parenting, discipline, a 14 year old who has no idea what she is doing and should be given a chance to keep studying.  Mom is only thinking that she will be lonely if S isn’t there, even though she cannot care for her.  So we are just praying.  We have seen God do a miracle in a mom’s heart before and we are praying for it again.  If He wants her here, she will come.  If not… we will continue to pray for her where she is that the Lord puts people in her life to love and care for her where she is.  I will be back in touch with them in a few weeks.

Thank you for walking this with me.  Every day of this journey is a step of faith for me… trusting God for His timing in everything.

It’s a Start!

God is a good provider.  We have a ways to go to have Puerta de Esperanza will be fully funded.  But we are 2% funded monthly.  I received some one-time donations that will cover our monthly needs for one year for transportation and gas.  THANK YOU!

Here you go!  Look for a category that maybe you could get some friends together to cover :)

A plea

So here it is… I’ve tried lots of things… a support raising trip home, lots of emails, links to the donation page at MTW, hints at needs of money, but the time has come to really put it out there. 

Puerta de Esperanza needs monthly donors.  Without them we will not be able to sustain the ministry.  We have two potential girls who want to move into the home and I am hesitant because I’m not sure we can financially support them.  We have been scrimping and scraping to get by, but it is not financially responsible to put new girls in the home with the way our budget looks and we live prayer to prayer on a monthly basis for the other girls as well.

Please consider partnering with us on a monthly basis.  Tell your friends.  Ask people to help.  Even as little as $25/month would pay for all the girls transportation.  Here is an idea… pick a category from the monthly PDE budget, if you and/or your family can support that category monthly, GREAT!  If not, get together your small group, your church, some friends, and maybe together you can support us for that category or at least half of it every month.  In return, I will keep you updated with fun pictures and a chart once we have these monthly costs covered.

To give go here...https://donations.mtw.org/donate/default.aspx and put in this number 92413.  You can let them know it is a monthly donation.

As soon as you sponsor something, shoot me an email at ssinnes@gmail.com and I’ll start a chart to keep us updated!

Update #2

She’s here!  C arrived on the bus tonight with a dear friend Ericka from Tegucigalpa to visit PDE and get to know us a little bit.  She is 13 and 3 months pregnant.  And you can’t even tell, she is so tiny!  She is excited to show me her ultrasound pictures tomorrow and has lots of questions for me.  She was sick on the bus all the way here, so pray for her stomach to settle down some.  Coming to La Ceiba would be a huge change for her and take her very far away from her family.  She is nervous and uncertain about a whole lot of things… but told me that she is a Christian and is trying to trust God.  I got to share with her tonight about how young of a mother Mary likely was and how God gave her an incredible ability to trust Him in the midst of a really tough situation where she didn’t really know what the future would hold.  She trusted God and took Him at His Word.  I told C that I am praying the same for her, that she would be open to listen to the voice of God and then be obedient to walk in the path that He has for her.  She is so young and has a long road ahead of her.  Please pray!