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Rancho 3m Christian Orphanage & School

Update March 2006

Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ Jesus,

Through God’s grace & mercy our seventeen month long battle is over here at the Ranch. But first allow us to update you on some of the other exciting happenings around here.

THE SCHOOL
Many of you know that a while ago we received written permission from the state government here in Mexico to operate our school. But what we didn’t have was the actual license number in hand until the other week when we finally received it. We are so excited. It is the culmination of three years of work by a lot of people. Thank you Lord!!!

Speaking of school, we have our first “child,” that we know of, to go directly from the orphanage to college. Josylin started at the beginning of this school year and is doing very well, despite the challenges with transportation to and from Juarez. At present she is studying Social Services to be able to get a job with DIF, the department here in charge of women and children. It is the same governmental department that has authority over us as an orphanage. She says that she would like to work there to be able to help children like the ones that come to the Ranch to live.

THE STAFF
Speaking of children. All of the staff and teachers here had the privilege of attending the Ted Tripp conference on “Shepherding a child’s heart” at Comunidad Cristiana in Juarez. Some brothers & sisters from that church where kind enough to come here to the Ranch and watch our kids for a day and a half while we all stayed in Juarez. Thank you guys very much!!! We highly recommend the aforementioned book to anyone with children still at home. We have already gone through the book together as a staff and tomorrow I will be explaining to al! l of our kids some of the things that we all learned. Good stuff.

Speaking of conferences, a fellow orphanage director called me the other day who was feeling pretty down and out. While we spoke, the Lord brought great conviction about something that He had placed on my heart to do two years prior. That is to get together with other orphanage directors and their key staff for the purpose of edification and education. It won’t be a conference with speakers but rather we have devised a list of questions and each director will be allotted a period of time to share to the rest of us how they do or handle a particular task or challenge. None of us does it all correctly so we are excited about learning from others! That will take place this weekend here at the Ranch.

Sadly, my administrative assistant, Erin Jones, left the Ranch after almost three years of hard and excellent work. We will miss her terrible and pray the best for her. Thank you Erin for all you did for us. She left to continue her studies.

THE KIDS
Also, some sisters from our home church recently came in town for a long weekend to have talks with our older girls about modesty and Biblical womanhood issues. Thank you guys for doing that. It is already bearing fruit.

With the boys, we have been teaching some of them how to weld. We have a three year plan of building and installing a fence around the Ranch for the children’s safety. We are using rebar in the back which the boys are welding up into ten foot sections. Mr. & Mrs. Boyd will match any donations for the fence up to 7,000 dollars a year. Thank you for your generosity and kindness for the care of the children here.

Also with the kids, we replaced our Thursday service with “home groups” or “care groups”. Something I have been wanting to do for sometime now. We divide the kids into four groups by age and gender. It enables us to hear from them better. On Sundays we are preaching through the Westminster Catechism and on Thursday we talk about it and challenge them to apply what they learned to their lives.

SUMMER GROUPS
We are looking forward to all of the summer groups that we are blessed to serve this summer. Thank you guys for desiring to come and bless us here at the orphanage.

THE BATTLE
As I mentioned above, the battle is over. Jair just finished his last chemo a couple of weeks ago and is now totally clean. He even had the radioactive isotope test again to see if he has any cancer cells in his body. He was 100% clean thanks to the Lord. So the battle is over! There were many ups and downs. There were a number of kids that he went through chemo with that died. Teo & Lety have grown a lot in their faith and it reemphasized the need for sound doctrine in all of us. For those of you that are new in receiving this letter, we have a staff couple who have a little boy who had cancer until the Lord completely healed him of a deadly Duraplastoma tumor last January. Teo and Lety wanted me to thank everyone who prayed for, fasted for, and gave money for his treatment. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone of you who so graciously and sacrificially support this orphanage & school through you offerings and prayers. We couldn’t exist apart from God using you in such a mighty way. We are humbled by your generosity and care. Thank you!!!

Because of the cross of Jesus Christ,

Dean Adamek
Director

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