Christmas On the Streets - Reflections

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Published: Friday, 03 January 2014 15:46

Written by Corina Clements Soria

Christmas on the Streets” has come and gone for another year… With a few quieter days, the frantic activities of the last weeks fade in my mind… and thoughts like “reports”, “letters”, “planning” and “looking for a new administrator and shops people” start to overtake my thoughts… Thinking back to Christmas four things stick out in my mind… COMING HOME:  One of the things I love about “Christmas on the Streets” is seeing everyone who “comes home” to help…  Josué, one of “Marco’s kids” who hasn’t missed a Christmas even though he can’t come during the year because of work and studies (his dad died years ago and as the oldest son he carries a lot of the responsibility…)

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles

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Published: Sunday, 22 September 2013 15:46

Written by Corina Clements Soria

Planes, Trains and Automobiles really has nothing with this past week… it is just a phrase that kept coming to mind… 

     - Planes, trains, automobiles

     - This, that and everything

     - Weddings, births, funerals… and international fair

It’s been one of those weeks at El Jordan…  Jenni and Chachi mentioned a couple times over the last 6 months that they’d like to get married… but its another thing to get paperwork and money together…  About a month ago Jenni asked me to write down everything that was needed to get married… paperwork, money for the justice of the peace… and everything else (invitations, clothes, food, decorations) were extras…  With 8 days to spare, Jenni came back to say that they had arranged it with the justice of the peace… they were getting married on September 18th!!! …at El Jordan!!! …and what else did they need to do?

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Pictures Taken With My Heart

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Published: Sunday, 25 August 2013 15:46

Written by Corina Clements Soria

We originally planned this activity as something we could do with a team from Canada…  They would see outside the city while experiencing the sobering reality of many (no running water, precarious wood/tin/tarp/plastic/cloth shack to live in).  They could play with the kids, have a little “church” service with them, cook, wash all the dirty clothes… they would come along side Janeth’s family, helping carry their burden for a day…  

When the team couldn’t come, we decided it was something we should still do…  Lots of students and volunteers from El Jordan brought little gifts of rice, noodles, oil, sugar, soap, shampoo etc. to make a gift hamper…  6 of us (and 6 kids) went out last Sunday to Janeth’s house to fulfill our promise…

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Truth ...

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Published: Thursday, 22 August 2013 15:46

Written by Corina Clements Soria

Hi there…

Just a quick update on a couple things… that I need you to take time to pray about…

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Janeth (with cancer) has been in a LOT of pain since last night… It is heart wrenching for Ricardo (her husband) and kids to watch and not be able to help…  She was discharged from the hospital a couple weeks ago because others need her bed more than her…  She lives just beyond the outskirts of a town/city an hour away from Santa Cruz…  She has to walk down a little path and then down a little road to get to a place where she can catch a motorcycle taxi to the place where she can catch a bus to the city…  She is weak and dizzy…

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