Our Feeding Center is the heartbeat of our ministry in the village of El Sitio. Each week we experience firsthand the malnutrition, poverty, and sickness that are all too common among the many families that live there.
Because of generous donors and partners in the US, we can offer healthy, delicious meals each week to many kids and moms. But more than that, we love on them, serve them and point them to Jesus.
Just a week ago, I was at the Feeding Center building getting it ready for the new year. Two brothers yelled at me from the road. I recognized their faces, but I didn’t know them because they weren’t in our Feeding Center.
These two boys quickly became my friends and they asked if they could help me. I could tell by looking at them that things were probably tough at home for them. I asked them if they wanted to split my sandwich, which they quickly responded with a “Yes!!!”, and then I headed to get them a broom. When I returned they had already finished there sandwich.
During the next hour, we cleaned, we played and we joked around. They told me their mom was very sick and the only thing they had eaten in the last two days were a couple tortillas. I taught them how to burp and the youngest brother shot his older brother in the face with the water nozzle – twice.
As we finished up our work we were sorting through trash that had accumulated over several weeks. It was then when Bryan, the oldest of the two boys, held up an old bag with a half-eaten sandwich and asked: “Hey, do you think this is safe to eat?”
My heart ached at his inquiry. The half-eaten sandwich was mine from the previous week and I had thrown it away because I didn’t like it much. I realized at that moment that I probably waste more food than these boys consume.
So, why do I share this story with you? I share it because we need your help…and so do Bryan and his brother Josue.
Our Feeding Center will re-open next week for the year. We have received only a little funding for our Feeding Center sponsorship program this year, but we are moving forward in faith that we will not only provide meals for the 90-100 kids and moms from last year, but that we can grow and add these two boys and a few other families that are in the same situation.
For just $100, you can help us provide 3 nutritious meals a week for an entire year. Not only do these kids and moms receive the benefit of these nutritious meals, but we also pay three moms from the village to run the kitchen and our preschool. And the other moms that volunteer to work in the Center, they receive rice, beans, sugar, and oatmeal as pay.
I am no Warren Buffet or Charles Schwab, but I promise you that this is a great investment! If you would like to sponsor 1 or more children in our program, it would be a huge blessing to our ministry and to this community.
To participate, please visit or Donation page. Thanks!
