Mowerys with Back2Back: August 2014

Some of the children in Bonfil - they were so eager to help paint

There are two girls who live in Bonfil we’ve gotten to know better this summer. They make us smile every time we are with them because of their sweet yet spunky personalities. We know that God has a great plan for their lives! Recently, we discovered that neither of them can read, and struggle with the abc’s and numbers. We know that they are not alone in their educational struggles and want to provide after school tutors every day who can help the children of Bonfil. We are trying to be more intentional with the educational programming at Mision Educarte. For years, the kids in the neighborhood have heard about Jesus through Rossy’s classes. Every Wednesday & Saturday she has a Bible class with a craft and feeds the children. For 19 years she’s done this alone. We started working with Rossy in January 2013 to provide her with additional resources, bring teams, provide a hot meal, and help her with the Bible classes. Because we believe in going deep with our ministry partners, we have been evaluating the children and the program to determine their biggest needs and how we can help. Our desire is that the children will love God with all their heart, soul and mind, but we also want to help make a difference in their educational, physical, emotional, and social needs.

This summer we took one mission team (Horizon Church College Group) to go and paint the community of apartments – called a cuartaria - where many of the children live. The one room apartments are about 12 x 15 feet. Most apartments share one community bathroom and only have a small electric stove for cooking. The mission team was able to repaint the entire lower level of this cuarteria. The kids and some of their Mom’s helped with the painting. We also had VBS every Tuesday night with the help of many local volunteers.