prayer requests

I have some prayer requests.

Please continue to keep the girls here in your prayers. Many of them are in the process of transitioning back home. As I wrote before, Melinda and Clara went home. Deysi and Milusca also went home after four years here at the Hogar...so I can imagine some tough transitions ahead for them. Alexandra, my white-sandal friend, also went home while Sean was here. But I was suprised and excited to get a phone call from her the other day. She said she wanted to check in, say hi, and plan a get together.

A friend and in some ways co-worker, Jesusa, is going to have a baby. She´s due in March. I went with her this weekend to help run some errands. She´s going home, to Arequipa, to have her baby because no one in her family wants her baby girl to be born in Cusco. But then she´s bringing her baby back to live with her at the residentado (she lives at a home for girls over 18 who are studying at the university).

Also, a really good friend of ours, Juan Carlos, came over really early Sunday morning because he and his wife got into a fight and are now separated. So if you could also please keep both Jesusa and Juan Carlos in your prayers.

Praise God! Antonio is back at home! Please continue to pray for the Raygoza family and Antonio´s health. Last Wednesday 12 of us were gathered at a prayer meeting at the Nazarene Church here in Cusco. We´re praying for you over here, too, Tony!