This year our women’s Bible study sponsored Fundación Amparo, case a home for pregnant teenage girls. The girls come to the home when they find themselves in a difficult situation and their families cannot or will not help them. While at the home they receive a basic education, learn trade skills like baking or cosmotology and have times of devotions, studying the Bible and counseling. Technically they are allowed to stay as long as they want after the baby is born, but most through the training feel empowered and within a year ready to return to the world to stand on their own two feet. It really is a blessed ministry and we were all very touched by our visits with the girls and their adorable babies. All of the moms received pajamas and lotions. The babies received various gifts including clothes, toys, blankets, etc. Again, most of them will not receive much for Christmas, only what comes through strangers wanting to bless them. This was a very moving experience for me and a ministry that I would one day love to do. Please keep these girls in your prayers as they go through these tough times some at very, very young ages and, of course, for their beloved babies.
~Tona