Hi friends,

The Casa Hogar Mi Refugio is growing! When we got back from the States there was another addition to to the home – a 12 year old boy. The boys dorm is over flowing so the last several weeks have been focused on adding a wing to it. The concrete mixer was “towed” up to the dorm by hand. It is hard to get photos of the elevation but it is high. Twenty people pulled and pushed it up by hand. It didn’t help that the tires are flat and won’t hold air either. We helped carry a big truckload of sand up for the concrete in gunny sacks on our backs. Brick, portland cement, – all the material had to go up, too. This pass week a church group from Anderson SC helped carry the wood up.

Excitement has been high with the kids and the adults. Foot ball (soccer) is huge here like it is in a lot of Latin American countries. This year Peru made it to the World Cup play-offs for the first time in 36 years. The president of Peru declared a national holiday when they qualified to enter. Most of the adults here are younger than that so it is a huge event. So when the game comes on the work stops and the school closes so everyone can watch it.

God laid on a certain local woman’s heart to provided funds for new bathrooms for the dorms. They were needed very much. The old shower stalls were made of galvanized tin nailed to the wood studs and they were rusting and full of holes. The walls in the toilet stalls are rotting and have holes to the outside. The funds were given to build masonry walls covered with ceramic tile. This will be much more sanitary than the old wood and metal bathrooms The girls dorm is being done first and the boys dorm will follow soon. God is good! He has always supplied the needs here and we trust Him to do so in the future.

The Schrocks