Please tell all hello and God bless. We are well in Honduras. I had a slight case of flu after I drove home from the U.S. for the fourteenth time. I don't think I picked up the swine brand in Mexico. I just can not seem to get in on the beginning of anything. I am over it now, and the wind is back in my sails.

"Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?" (Job 30:25)  I read in the newspaper about a little newborn baby that had been abandoned in the street's of San Pedro Sula. That reminded me about a newborn boy, in another part of Honduras, that had been placed in the pasture, by his young mother, as soon as he was born. Some field workers heard him crying and rescued him. A newborn girl, not far from us, was thrown into the outhouse hole to die among the maggots. Would I have jumped in that hell hole to rescue her? The police were called, and she was saved. That reminded me that almost all of our children are with us because that were abandoned by their family. How many babies have died a violent death here because they were unwanted by their own parents, and there was no one else to help? They all need a loving family home, and that is one of the reasons that we are here. The main reason is that God sent me to Honduras to glorify Himself. "When my father and my mother forsake, then the LORD will take me up." (Psalm 27:10)

We are keeping a sixteen year old girl who is with child. She had no place to go, so we invited her to live here as long as she needs too. One of the reasons that we gave her a home is because too many women here drink some kind of medicine or poison to kill their babies in the womb. We tell them, "don't do that-have the baby and we will help." She gave birth to a beautiful daughter a few days ago.

One of our school teachers told us about a fourteen year old girl that is almost a slave in a house in our community. She had been working there since her father died two years ago. The woman of the house was very cruel to her. The girl was required to do almost all the work for a large family. Sometimes the woman was gone for several days at a time. The girl washes all the clothes by hand, ironed them cleaned the house, cared for all the children, etc. On Monday-Saturday, she got up at 4:00 AM and worked until 11:00 PM, and on Sunday she got up at 3:00 AM and went to bed at 11:00 PM. She was paid about $37 each month. Of course, if she broke anything like a plate, she had to pay for it. Her father is dead, and her mother has three other younger children. My wife checked on that girl, and invited her to come live with us. We plan to bring her home with us. Her younger sister is not in school because her mother does not have the money to send her. We pray to enroll her in our school soon. (The girl is with us now, and her sister is enrolled in our school.)

The tractor finished breaking our farm land today. The produce will be used to help feed our twenty six children.