Fundacion Shalom

Dear Friends,

My last post is a couple weeks old, I just didn't have time to post it. I thought I would bring you more up to date. Things at the foundation are increasinly difficult. The director is very busy with various tasks in the office and at the foundation itself. Hermana Dorris is working hard every day with the boys, discipling them and keeping them busy with homework and lots of chores. This week there was no school monday so many of the boys didn't come until monday afternoon. Others didn't come until late tuesday and missed school on Tuesday. The two highschools dont have class this week and two of the boys went to school on Tuesday, but when Hermana Dorris arrived to talk with the teachers, it was closed. Apparently the boys went to a friends house or something and didn't come back to the foundation until they were due to arrive from school. They had a long day of chores ahead if them. Others refuse to do their homework and are causing trouble at school.

It is increasingly difficult lately to keep the boys under control. Nothing bothers them. Punish them, put them to work, do what you will, but they won't budge. The twins are especially difficult, one of them comes back from school with a note from the teacher every day. Most of the boys have at least one brother at the foundation but most of them don't look out for each other. They keep an eye on each other only to do them harm or get them in trouble. The older ones when asked to help their siblings with homework just complete the homework for them which results in laziness and they fall behind inschool because they aren't learning.

Please pray for God to send more help for these boys. We are also looking for a new tutor because the one we have isn't overbearing enough to control the boys and they do whatever they will. Hermana Anita is already in her sixties and there are very few helpers. We are also losing the cook at the end of the month so she can be home to raise her three boys. We need more men of good Christian character and strong masculine presence. The women are doing what they can, but we are missing the other half. We need more men who are forcefull in their disciple. The boys go home on the weekends but if they even have a father figure in their lives he is working or not home, and the moms are often away as well. At this point prayer is the most important thing for these boys. There is no one who can change them but God.

Please also pray for patience and wisdom for all of us who work with the boys. Pray for God to work through us and to make his presence evident at the foundation. Satan is at work but our God is bigger, better, and stronger and He is in control.

Thanks for your time and for reading my blog.

God Bless!