Casa Hogar para Ninos Esperanza Orphanage Update

2 Chronicles 30:11 - Our task is to invite others to consider God’s actions, his claims and his promises.

Our Mission

We are servants of God by serving others. We share a responsibility to bring God’s love to hurting people. We are Cancun Christian Fellowship, an outreach fellowship of believers dedicated to showing the people of the Yucatan Peninsula, through our teaching, actions and love, the life changing power of Jesus Christ.

I’m Tom Martin, an Evangelist with Cancun Christian Fellowship in Colonia de Pescadores, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Until recently, our objectives had been three-fold: (1) To provide assistance to children of very low to no income families and (2) To provide Christian activities and weekly Christian study groups for men and women (3) along with nondenominational Sunday Christian Church Services I invite you to look at our website, www.cancunchristianfellowship.com to get a better idea of who we are, why we are here and what we strive to accomplish. It’s a simple, two page website, but it accurately describes our goals and Christian mission.

In early 2010, the staff of Cancun Christian Fellowship visited Casa Hogar para Ninos Esperanza, an orphanage south of Cancun in Colonia Alfredo Bonfil. What we witnessed touched our hearts and challenged us to expand our work to an additional area where children truly need our help. After completing due diligence, we confirmed that the orphanage was Christian based, the children were being cared for to the best of management’s ability and they honestly needed our help. Casa Hogar para Ninos Esperanza has been in operation for twenty+ years and currently cares for fifteen children ages eighteen months to seventeen years. Sadly, most of the children have a history of abuse.

In our current mission work, the small amount of money we receive through donations covers most food, medical expenses and some children’s items with nothing left over. In order to expand our work and offer continued support to the orphanage, we need additional supplies and partners. We are currently providing diapers, wet wipes, diaper rash medication, milk, rice, beans, eggs, pork, beef, chicken, fruit juices, coloring books, crayons, medical examinations and making general repairs to the facility but our resources, for additional assistance, are very limited.

What we desperately need are:
1. Children’s shoes (any size or gender)
2. Children’s clothes (any size or gender)
3. Twin size cotton bed sheets
4. Plastic mattress covers for twin size mattresses

I am not asking your church to buy these items. I am asking that you pass our request on to your church small groups, men's groups and women's groups. We know that many people have outgrown children’s clothing or they are willing to purchase one or two children’s items and drop them off at the church for shipment to us. We will be happy to email updates and photos as often as desired to the groups that participate. Additionally, phone calls and site visits by church members are always welcomed.

There is also a need for mission groups from the church to assist us with repairs and improvements to the orphanage as time and schedules allow.

Please give it some thought. I hope your light will shine on us. If you would like to share your thoughts, have questions, desire additional information, please call me. Thanks to the beauty of the internet, we have a US phone number in our home in Mexico. I can usually be reached at 713-529-8078, and should someone not be available, please leave a message and Cherilyn or I will return your call.

Thank you for listening, your consideration is appreciated. Tom
http://www.cancunchristianfellowship.com/ (be sure to read our Blog Spot)
tommartin@inbox.com
cancunchristianfellowship@gmail.com