Welcome to the New Website
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Matching Donations Extended
A big thank you to our generous donor who has decided to extend the matching deadline to include the month of September to take advantage of the website which includes updated instructions on how to donate via a trust or donor advisory fund. To learn more about opportunities to have your donation matched click here.
The Portables Arrived
We keep growing and expanding our facility as God continues to bless our effort and bear much fruit.
We received three new donated trailers from our home church Horizon north county. We will use them for the wheelchair and adaptive equipment workshop, a new expanded physical and occupational therapy room, and a youth center for the local teenagers!
This is a great opportunity to help us prepare them for use. They have ramps and stairs thanks to the Horizon men’s group, led by Pastor Steve Armendariz and Bud Rudolph. We could use a hand with painting, clean them up, and installing doors and shelfs. We’re also looking to have the skylights and roofs fixed after damage experienced in transport. To learn the specifics of what building supplies and work we could use help with check out this link.
Our facilities are on track to be able to accommodate the kids and we are praying for the finances to hire the staff to meet the special needs of the kids at the new facilities. If you know someone with a heart to help here is more information.
Youth Center Portable: We are also looking forward to opening the youth center which will include a game room, couches and chairs, basketball court, volleyball, soccer court, and a fire pit. We want to create a safe, Christ centered space where the youth in the community can come and have fun and be together without all the temptations of the world to distract and lead them astray. Interested in contributing a Ping Pong Table or other equipment?
Thankful for Adaptive Equipment
We could use a hand transporting additional adaptive equipment (like Wheelchairs) from out storage space in San Diego down to the ranch. It would be a huge blessing to have the chairs and other donations driven south to the ranch.
Special Needs Classes Begin
We added two new classes for special needs children in one of our existing spaces. One session is in the morning, and the other one is in the afternoon. Most of these children have never been to school before and they are loving it! The reason they never went to school is because the public school does not and cannot adapt a program to fit their physical and developmental needs.
The parents are so happy to have their kids in a program for the first time, where the kids can achieve their God given potential. We have a second educational program for developing children who need a bit more attention. The class sizes in the Mexican public schools are so large, that many children fall behind and never catch up. Here at the ranch, we were blessed to have found Josephina, an extremely gifted teacher who has the compassionate and patient heart of Jesus. She has even helped one of our mom’s get her middle school certificate and has taught many children how to read and write.
How To Help
Get in on the action. Make a difference either at the ranch or from home.
- Do you build?
- Do you have access to building materials?
- Do you have access to horse supplies?
- Do you know therapists?
- Are you an educator?
- Are you good with state side logistics?
- Do you have connections to wheelchairs or braces?
- Could you assist with medical needs?
Find which way of helping works best for you even if that means referring us to a friend who works in one of these areas. Click here to learn more about how to help in any of these areas.
Update On Our Family
Yoshira graduated high school and is currently waiting to enter the University for nursing. She has lived with us since April, and it has been a blessing having her here at the ranch.
She is so sweet and has a servant’s heart. She is always helping us around the ranch and in the house. She was raised for many years in an orphanage. We used to care for her sister, Melinna in our home for 3 years, so we have known Yoshira when she was younger.
Her desire is to someday be a pediatric nurse. She received a partial scholarship so far, but we are praying and trusting God that someone would be touched by the Holy Spirit and be able to support Yoshira with the the final amount of tuition. For a cost of 200 dollars a month for four years Yoshira can earn her degree and become even more effective in contribution her time and talents.
Jaciel finished his first year of middle school and is now seeing a psychologist to help him deal with his childhood trauma that he has suffered. This has given him a healthy and safe place to talk about his past and about his feeling about his biological family. He has come a long way since he started living with us 5 years ago, but with adolescence, we felt it was time for him to get more specialized care for his abandonment issues of the past. He is really enjoying his sessions, and we see the Lord’s hand in his healing.
Christian stays with us many nights and he will be going to San Diego soon to see a urologist at Children’s hospital through the fresh start foundation to see if his congenital defect in his urethra can be fixed to prevent further kidney damage. Please keep him in your prayers for complete healing.
My two daughters went to New Jersey to visit my parents and introduce them to their new great grandchildren!
Update on the Children
Melinna
Every wonder about the history of the little girl in the His Wings Logo? That girl is Melinna! We are really praying on whether or not the Lord is leading us to accept Melinna back into the ranch permanently. She is very fragile and needing hemodialysis three days a week. This would require a full-time nurse or nursing aide with her 24/7. We cannot attend to her needs without this help. Our current budget does not allow for that, but if the Lord would provide a donor to help us pay for this care, we would put her in one of our casita’s here at the ranch. Click here to learn about Melina.
Other Children
- Since the last newsletter in April, we have added 3 more children to the program.
- We helped send a burned child to Shriner’s Sacramento for care.
- Nicole is back in Philadelphia.
- Valentina is scheduled to go to Shriner’s Philadelphia as well in September.
- Cristian is scheduled to go to San Diego for urologist.
- Ruth is going to San Diego for dental care.
- Jared will also go to San Diego for dental care.
- Luis Miguel is planning to go to Philadelphia Shriner’s for his severe thoracic kyphosis.
- Melanie is planning on getting a video visit to see if she will go to Shriner’s Pasadena for a new brace for her hand and leg.
Prayer Requests and Praise Reports
We Pray for the Holy Spirit to touch hearts of trained professionals to come and visit or stay onsite as missionaries and short-term stays. And We also pray for:
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- For increased monthly support to hire more staff to care for the growing needs of our ever-growing list of children in need.
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- For monthly support to hire a full time nurse to care for Melinna
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- For the rest of the scholarship needed for Yoshira’s nursing school
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- For a scholarship for Miguel
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- For groups to come and help us build houses for our kids still waiting for their forever home
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- For groups to come and help our families get patios and bathrooms to better care for their frail children.
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- For Cristian’s surgery to completely heal his congenital defect and save his kidney function
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- To retrieve our confiscated Escalade from the Aduana to have our second car back.
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- For us to connect with a pediatric urologist to help our kids
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- To finish the playground
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- To finally get the wheelchair workshop built
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- To get wheelchair accessible pathways throughout the ranch
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- For funds and donations for the youth center(ping pong table, pool table, foosball, etc)
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- For the Holy Spirit to touch hearts to partner financially with us so we can bless our staff with salaries they deserve
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- For the Holy Spirit to touch hearts of trained professionals to come and visit/ or stay onsite as missionaries and short-term stays
Praise Report
We are thankful to the lord for answering our prayers and providing:
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- Partial scholarship for Yoshira
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- For bringing the 3 new trailers to the ranch
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- For the opportunity to bring Cristian to San Diego to save his kidney function
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- For increasing the numbers of children coming to the ranch for hope, and healing
Photo Gallery
Looking for photos of the ranch not incorporated into the stories above? Here they are.
