January 2021 Soria Praise & Prayer Update

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Published: Monday, 01 February 2021 18:00

Written by Corina Soria

JANUARY 31, 2021

Thank you to each one of you who pray for and partner with us! You encourage us and accompany us… Here are some praise and prayer requests:

PRAISE:

• We were finally able to change Marco´s truck for a “younger” one!!!! Yeah!! We are SO thankful!!! …and thrilled to not have to worry about mechanics every time we turn around! Thank God with us!
• We have had a good start to our year at El Jordan - remembering our Mission’s Statement with our team so that we can move forward together… We have also been working through questions like: “What kind of help HURTS and what kind of help HELPS?” “What are the best ways to transmit our Biblical values and principles to our El Jordan families?”
• The continued “COVID Restrictions” have given us the time to work on fixing up our workshops – putting a roof over our field and changing the synthetic grass, remodeling the “classrooms” for the boys, painting the shops with a more welcoming color and more! God has provided for us, every step of the way! (The synthetic soccer field is for our boys… but also to rent out to help to sustain our program.)

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Update From the Soria Family

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Published: Sunday, 27 December 2020 18:00

Written by Corina Soria

A year ago, we had our “Christmas at Home” – where we invited three different groups of street ladies to El Jordan to get a taste of “HOME”, to build trust and bridges that we hoped would result in some of them getting brave enough to come back for Bible Studies and practical classes at El Jordan in the new year….

Well… we are almost at the end of that “new year”… and it looked much different for us that what we “planned” – but then:

In their hearts, humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps. Proverbs 16:9

What a comfort to know that the LORD establishes our steps! There are no surprises for Him! Our year was established by HIM ... and what a year it was!

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Update from El Jordan - Bolivia

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Published: Tuesday, 07 July 2020 17:00

Written by Corina Soria

First of all, I would like to ask for your prayers for our El Jordan family.... over the last 6 weeks, we have lost two very dear volunteers... (Susana our bread/baking teacher... Maria Elena our crochet teacher) while multiple volunteers have lost their mom, dad or family members...

Please pray for comfort and hope for the family and friends left behind... These losses affect our students as well... because these volunteers were much more than teachers to our girls, they were like family.... We also buried Mirtha, a lady who came for the first time to El Jordan at our "Christmas at Home" outreach... We had been helping her and her two boys (9 and 11) through this crisis time... but she passed away suddenly a week or two ago... leaving behind her two boys... In all of the 20 some years on the streets, no one knew anything about any family members.... Pray for her boys, Jorge and Jesus.... Another lady who came as a student for a short while at El Jordan long ago, at 32 years old was just left a widow - with 5 children (Clarix 15, Randy 12, Diana 6, Esteysi and Deysi 13 month old twins). There is so much pain.... so much sadness... so much need... Please pray for us at El Jordan to have wisdom in knowing how to serve the Lord during this time.... The crisis in Bolivia is far from over... and I only pray for God´s grace and mercy on Bolivia....

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A Note from Claudia

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Published: Wednesday, 01 July 2020 17:00

Written by Corina Soria

Last Wednesday, Claudia, our volunteer dentist from El Jordan, asked to come with me on my rounds to our families to deliver donations of vegetables… This is a little note and some stories from her
perspective from that experience.

My dear brothers and sisters,

I want to give my thanks to each and every one of you for giving to help so many families with groceries, diapers, milk – people who in many cases didn’t have anything to eat that day – and the help arrived just when they most needed it. We thank God for your lives and the great love and mercy that He put in your hearts. I want to encourage you not to tire of doing good and to listen to the sweet voice of the Father, talking to us through His Word.

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