Hello Everyone!

                              

   I am sorry this June newsletter is so late in coming. It’s just that we have been very busy in the mountains the past month with groups and other situations. We were blessed to have two groups from the Calvary Chapel Church Association this past month. The first group was from the Rocky Mountain Fellowship. They came down and helped in the village of Guaguitare. The group spent two days building bunk beds and doing skits for the children and showed them a film during the evening. We all camped out there overnight enjoying the cool night air under the stars. The group was made up of mostly teenagers and young adults. The bunk beds that they constructed will be used by the children who stay there at the albergue. An albergue is a place where the children can live during the week while they go to school. Because many of the children live very far away in the canyons it would take them hours to walk back and forth each day. Before we built the beds the kids were sleeping on “pallets” on the ground outside or in the school. We hope to be able to provide them with some mattresses or foam pads before the classes start back in the fall. Doing these small projects for the school gives us an open door to share the love of Jesus with the children and adults of this village. The picture to the upper left shows the team assembling the bunk beds. The one to the upper right shows the completed beds being put into one of the dorm rooms

The next team was from Baltimore, Maryland. They came down and helped with a project for the water system that will provide water for the El Salto / Ranchito community. The team spent a day with us down in a small canyon gathering rock and sand to construct a cistern that will hold the water that will be pumped almost 200 feet straight up to another cistern on top of the mountain where our vehicles are parked. This is place where the people will come to fill their water containers. They will no longer have to make the treacherous trip down into the canyon to the spring and carry heavy jugs of water back out.

  This team was a great blessing to us because of all the work they did. The next phase of this project will be to begin the construction of the lower tank. We are hoping for good weather so we can begin building soon. To the left you can see the team getting organized before going down into the canyon. To the right is part of the large pile of rocks and sand that they gathered. The work they did will make it easier for the next group to begin their work.   

 

 

 

 

   Earlier the month we had the opportunity to show God’s love to a local couple by helping put a roof on their mud / adobe house. They are middle aged and new Christians and cannot believe everything that God has provided for them. The husband has had heart problems recently and cannot work. They have seen God provide them with the things they needed when they had no idea how they were going to get them. Below are some pictures of their house while we were putting on the roof and of the couple.  

 

     

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

We ask for your prayers of protection over our lives and that we could continue touching and changing the lives of the Tarahumara. Thank you all for helping make all of this possible. Monica’s appointment with the Shriner’s Hospital went well; she will not need surgery at this point in time. We Praise God for answering our prayers, she will only need to do certain exercises to strengthen the muscles in her leg until her nextcheck-up in January of next year.

 

 

 

                                                                                      

 

 

 

Onor u'ami micuirsa (God bless you, in Tarahumara)

Ryan, Shelly, Monica and Melena Maness

Highways and Hedges Ministries

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