JANUARY 2010

Dear

Greetings to you on the first month of the New Year 2010. All of us
here at the Home want to wish you a very happy New Year and we pray that
your Christmas time was as happy as ours was here at the Home. The
children started the day off very early in the morning by getting up before
dawn and checking all the names on all of the pretty wrapped presents to
see which ones was theirs. We then started handing out all the gifts and
the kids unwrap them as they received them. It took longer to wrap them
then it did to unwrap. Here in México the kids get another chance for
gifts. They celebrate Three Kings Day here on the 6th of January. This is
the time that the three wise men brought gifts to the Christ child in the
manger. The night before the 6th ,kids attach a note to a balloon, with a
list of things they want from the 3 Kings. The balloons are then set free.
The morning of the 6th the gifts will be found in the living room.

Everyone then takes time out to eat breakfast. It has always been a
tradition for us here at the Home for Bev to bake a birthday cake for
Jesus. We put candles on it for the year and then we have the youngest
kids of the Home blow out the candles after we all sing happy birthday to
Jesus. This year Doug and Monica wanted Bev and I to blow out the candles
in celebration of our 40th Christmas here in Mexico. The kids then play
with their gifts until time to eat dinner.

Bev and Monica, along with the older girls, start preparing the noon
meal. This year Bev cooked a turkey and a ham, along with all the
trimmings. For weeks before Christmas Bev bakes cookies and makes candy to
be eaten all day Christmas and for many days after.

I want to take this time to thank each of you who took the time to
pray for us during this time and also for those who sent extra donations so
that we were able to provide all the toys and cloths for the children for
this Christmas. The children are told on this day that we are celebrating
the birth of Christ. And that it is not only a day to get gifts, but also a
day to rejoice in the birth of our Savior.

In His Service;