Mike Clark's Daily Blog
Never give up
The Lord sent a new baby, Anna, who is 10 months old with a mother on drugs. Little Anna looks more like a 4 month old. Another Arkansas team arrived last night & in a few hours a tam from Florida is arriving. One team is having services…
Where we are
As we end the month I want to tell you we have received a gift sufficient enough to purchase the land which we have done. Also it was enough to get us started on remodeling the dialyisis unit & converting another dorm for medical purposes. So God has…
A confession
The little boy, Keiser, pronounced Key Sir  will arrive Wednesday. He is only 6 not 7. We have three teams here now from Missouri, a second group from Oklahoma, Washington State and even 3 left over from the Arkansas group last week. But Wednesday there will…
Abuse
VBS was a blessing. This is the 4th year in a row that Fellowship Ministry in Fayetteville, Arkansas has come and ministered to our children. It has been raining daily in torrents so the teams have really had to adjust. Another team from Oklahoma went with Adam for…
JonJon is here!
So many hundreds of people remember Jon Jon who was with us for years and who was so very ill. Todd and Jamie visited and fell in love with him. He was adopted and taken to the states with them & today he arrived with them. He…
Down the mountain
These sisters arrived today as did a 12 year old boy named Anderson. The girls are Maria, Dayanna and Melanie. Dr. Lou called about  7 year old dropped at his hospital who is needing dialysis but his family brought his clothes to the hospital and said they…
Keep Praying
I cannot tell you what the LSU research could mean. To discover why so many children in Guatemala have kidney disease they can provide methods of prevention, early diagnosis & education of parents. This will cut down the death rate considerably. We still are waiting for word on…
Dr Lou
We had not heard from the land's owner so I am trusting that it i due to the fact he has a large family and is speaking with each of them. I am so impatient so pray for me and him. Our daughters emailed from Lafayette that they…
Pray
I feel poorly so I did not write an update. We made an offer on the land and will know Tuesday morning their response. Astrid, age 11, physically abused arrived this afternoon. Vacation Bible school begins tonight as we have teams from Arkansas, Tennessee and Oklahoma here. I…
Can you believe for a miracle
When you read this please pray as at 10am because we will make an offer on the 1.75 acres of property behind Casa & then Tuesday I meet with Dr. Lou. We are stepping out to begin putting everything in place for an additional dozen to twenty children…
CHRISTMAS
Getting everyone together to take the Christmas photograph for this year is a challenge since we have so many children working or in college studying off campus. I do not know of any minute on any day when everyone is here at the same time. We had one…
ESTELLA’S BABY
Estella & Josue' who live in Jackson, Tn had their second child. He is Javiar and looks just like his grandPapi. Some folks asked me about having surgery here in Guatemala. My orthopedic surgeon studied here and also in Switzerland, Columbia, Brazil, Spain & Argentina. Pretty impressive!! The…
Following the crowd
I suppose that if I needed to make a voice as what is most destructive when raising teenagers I would say their tendency to follow he crowd. History tells us that one of the weakest crowd-pleasers was Pontius Pilate who, as a Roman governor, was the individual who…
Natural reaction
A number of folks have said they are having trouble with the new web page and getting to certain areas. A virus (heart bleed) hit the server. You need to go to Yahoo and update your computer. God has blessed again as we will make a bid…
His specific will
The team helped us in the Christmas bodega and wrapped a number of gifts. Dottie and I are so far behind on purchasing gifts for the kids and time is wasting. I have only had one response to my request to help build a small hospital/clinic for children…
More blueprints
Pastor Dave wants to purchase rings for the high school graduates and asks that if anyone would like to contribute to contact him at Triumphantmission1@yahoo.com. Tony took me to the mattress factory as we bought 50 mattresses and need them by Friday. Then Tony, Becky &…
blueprint
I want to thank everyone who is prying for me. the last two days have been the most pain-free days since the surgery 7 weeks ago. Tony , Tanya & Crissy are taking me to lunch Monday for father's day. Only God can see the whole picture.…
jOsue
Last night Josue' took a baby to the hospital in Antigua and while wiring he went to see his sponsor at their hotel. When he returned his car had been stolen. He is devastated, He helps so much and uses the car for telemedicine, taking children to…
RECEIVING HIS BLESSINGS
The Woodlands left today after being their usual blessing to our children. The Chicago team did work at a church near here and also worked in the Christmas bodega with us. The Georgia team continues to bless the kids and cut limbs and will visit Dr Alb tomorrow.…
The Perfect Will
Dottie and I stayed up late writing Christmas cards then got up at 3am to finish them so the Woodlands ladies can bring them back for Debbie. We have not taken the group photograph but will bring them in September to place in the envelopes. This is prayer…