The Book...

Doris Corrales (our Honduran Director of ML Refuge), Ronald Millon (our Honduran Director of ML) and I are working hard on completing a book that no one has ever done before. We want to be the first (or maybe one of the first) children's home in the world to have a book that outlines every aspect of it...from discipline, daily schedule, rules, contacts, medical, you name it-it will be in there. We want to be able to hand this book to all our employees and they fully understand their role and what needs to be done at what time and what needs to be done if something goes wrong. It is a huge undertaking but we are taking it one step at a time.

We have been working on various aspects of it for 2-3 months now but it is crunch time. We have set the date of June 7th to have it completed. We got serious yesterday. Doris and I leave San Marcos at 6 am to travel 45 minutes to Choluteca (where our office is located). We start with a prayer with our other workers at 7 am and then hit the computers. We do not leave the office until the assigned project for the day is complete. As of day 2, it is working well. It will be a complete book when we are finished and one that will help our children's home run smoothly (or as smoothly as possible).

We had a meeting with IHNFA (the Honduran child protective services) this morning and they are coming to do a seminar on the rights of children for us next Friday. We are inviting all our tias (aunts who take care of our children) and teachers from the schools. We will begin at 8 am and go until 3 pm. Each person in attendance will get a diploma which is great to have on record for our workers. I am excited to finally see the light at the end of the tunnel and some real progress being made.

Shelly and Roxanna (the director in the school) have put together a Teacher's Day tomorrow for all the teachers in our schools. I will lead a devo at 10 am and the party will go until 2 pm. They will have lunch also. It should be a great day. I know Shelly is excited about it.

Pray for our efforts in working on the book. It is a huge undertaking but something that is very necessary.

Chad