Visitation

Yesterday was visitation day! The kids were excited all week, counting down the days til Friday got here. Josue would ask me every day is today visitation and I had to remind him how many more days every day til visitation. He hears all the hype from the rest of the kids so he also gets excited about getting to go to visitation.

Josue and Nohemy's mother is expecting and she told us she was due in August. So we tired to prepare Josue and Nohemy before hand that their mom might not be at visitation because she might be in the hospital with the new baby. Sure enough she did not show up to visitation. The kids seemed to be fine. Josue kept saying she is in the hospital with the baby. Whether she really was we do not know but at least they were prepared for their mom maybe not being at visitation and they did much better with the whole situation. Usually if one of the kids moms do not show up the child is sad and upset and often becomes angry. Although Josue and Nohemy really stayed calm and dealt with the whole situation pretty well.

New bikes

Thank you to Gayle Davidson's group from FL for bringing the kids some new bikes!!! They absolutely love them!!!!!

Maryuri has tired and tired to ride a bike with now luck. Well finally she is up and on the bike and peddling by herself. Thanks to the new bike and training wheels that were sent!
And she is so proud of herself!!!!

New Shorts

Rosy

Jackson

Sisi

Reina

Bryan and Antonio

All of our kids seems to be growing which means their clothes no longer fit. Lots of them are wearing shorts that are too short or too tight. There are quite a few of the kids who are getting ready to enter into their teenage years. So they are also hitting their growth spurts. I am sure there are a lot more growth spurts to come. Thank you Sue Tindall for getting these shorts made and bought for the kids. They are very thankful. Who would ever thought the kids would be so happy to be getting new shorts but they are thrilled!!!!

EVERYTHING

Do Everything
by Steven Curtis Chapman


I wrote the song “Do Everything” really to remind myself and also to
encourage others that everything matters; everything we do can be done
as an act of worship. 1 Corinthians 10 says, “Whatever you do, do it for
the glory of God.” There’s this tendency it seems to think of life with this
line drawn down the middle where there’s the spiritual stuff on one side
and then just the stuff of life on the other. But I really think God wants us to
remember, and I’m trying to learn, that whatever we do, it all matters. Some
might say, 'well, my job or role isn't important enough to make any real
difference," but I disagree.

1 Pet 4:10 & 11 addresses this, "God has given gifts to each of you from his
great variety of spiritual gifts. Manage them well so that God's generosity can
flow through you. 11 Are you called to be a speaker? Then speak as though God
himself were speaking through you. Are you called to help others? Do it with all
the strength and energy that God supplies. Then God will be given glory in everything
through Jesus Christ. All glory and power belong to him forever and ever. Amen."


Whether it’s walking the dog, washing the dishes, taking out the trash, driving car pool,
trading global stocks, leading a massive company, all of these as well as the really big
spiritual moments, all of these can be done as an act of worship and everything can be done
to bring glory to the God who made us for that very purpose.


--Steven Curtis Chapman

Exams

The kids are half way through the school year. The week before last they took their second semester exams. We are always happy to see exam week go by because during exam week it is always stressful trying to study with everyone. So last week was the first week of the third semester. Most of the kids have pretty good grades and did well on their exams. A few of them are struggling. Hopefully this second part of the school year the ones that are struggling will be able to improve their grades.

June 2011 Update

June 2011

In June 2006 we took our first kids at Casa de Esperanza. This month marks 5 years that Casa de Esperanza has been helping, loving, and ministering to children. What a joy and journey it has been. We continue to learn along the way. In the past five years we have learned a lot about taking care of these kids and just the general rules of a children's home in Honduras. Just like anything there are days we laugh, rejoice, cry, get frustrated, and just want to throw our hands up but, I am thankful for this ministry that God has placed me in to minister to these children.

I continue to feel great with this pregnancy!!!! I am out of the first trimester. Mid June I hit three months. Crazy how fast the time is already gone by. I still feel beyond blessed that this miracle has been placed inside me. This whole process is just so amazing. The way God has created my body to carry this child and the way this child is being formed inside me.................I am in Awe and Amazed at this miracle that is inside of me.

Dorian continues to stay very busy working with some of the groups. He leaves in the morning and it is usually night before I see him again. He is tired and they are long days but I really think he is enjoying the work he is doing. Only about 4 to 5 more weeks of teams. Then things start to calm down.

Speaking of groups......they really seem to be in full swing here at Casa de Esperanza. Several groups a week stop by for the afternoon to see the children's home, play and love on the kids and shop in our Casa store. The store really is such a huge income during the summer months. The kids even have some of their stuff they have made in the store. The kids are beaming when they find out someone has bought their stuff. On top of that the kids get a little bit of the profit for themselves.

We continue to covet your prayers for the kids and our ministry here in Honduras.

Blessings~
Dorian and Karen Guido

KFC

Supper at KFC

Here are some more of the kids enjoying eating supper with Ashley and Mike.

The kids got to enjoy an outing to KFC for supper Friday evening. Ashley Lauer's group had invited the kids into town to eat supper with them. The kids were all happy to see Ashley. For those of you who do not remember she use to work here at Casa. There were also many other familiar faces the kids have come to love and were so happy to get to spend some time with also.

Birth Certificates

I have been working hard the past 4 years to get birth certificates for the Carrasco's (Doris, Reina, Fernando, and Katy)going on 5 years. We have not made much head way, only a big headache. We are only told time and time again that that papers are being done, but in reality they just give us a new constancia stating that it is in the works when really nothing is being done. Frustrating!!! It is something that I have to stay on top of or they do not work on them. These birth certificates are very important. For them to be accepted in this culture an get a job, to get an ID and graduate from 6th grade and high school they have to have this document. No exceptions!!!
About two years ago I took all of them to medicine forensic to get exams done on them as to what sort of age they really are. Well somewhere along the line the papers got lost. They only have a hard copy at the office and they can not give us a copy. So all of that was a waste. The children's services lawyer (IHNFA) has been working along side us to get their papers but no luck.
Also we have Nohemy that does not have her birth certificate. So this past week I had to take her into IHNFA to get an dental exam for her age. It was very quick and the papers were typed up by the dentist and given to the lawyer. I asked the lawyer if I could just bring the Carrasco's also to IHNFA to get a new exam done. She said to bring them in the next day. It is much easier to just get the exams done at IHNFA although a few years ago they did not have the dentist and this was not an option. Although bringing them in the next day was not going to be an option. Short staffed and too many other things going on. So I came back home with Nohemy and called the school and told them I needed to pick up the Carrasco's from school and to have them ready. So I turned right back around after dropping Nohemy off at the house and went to pick up the other kids from school and took them into IHNFA to get their dental exams done.
Just crossing my fingers by the end of the year we have these birth certificates in our hands! When we do finally have them I think I will be throwing a party!!!!!!!!!!!