Face of my Father Children ’s Home

ROSTRO DEL PADRE A.C. Quetzal # 7 San Marcos Jalisco 4 654 0 Mexico Tel. 011 52 (3 86 )7 57 -0 55 1

October 1, 2008

Progress
Progress is being made toward being able to open our
doors. M any people have asked us what steps need to be
made in order to open. Here’s what’s left to do:
1. Finish the construction of the building
2. Inspection by the health department
3. Final seal of approval from social services
Our plan is to have these steps done by January of 2009.
We are very grateful for more donations that have come
in for the construction of the building and are pleased to Upstairs living room
say that after 4 weeks of no construction progress, we are plastered
now able to pay the workers a few more weeks of work.
They will be plastering the upstairs inside walls and
finishing all the upstairs electrical work.

Ramey’s Visas
We send a huge thank you to each of you who gave
towards the Ramey’s visa expenses. All of the needed
money was raised and the visas should be approved by
November at the latest.

Garage S ale
With all of the wonderful donations we have received
over the past few months our recent garage sale was a Garage Sale
great success! M any people from San M arcos came and
we were able to visit with new people as well as friends.
In total we raised $255 dollars. This money is being
used towards the Ramey’s visas. Thank you to everyone
who donated items, including Ohio ZCM A youth team,
Salisbury Church youth team, and the church in La Joya.

Visitors from Ohio

Visitors are always such fun and we were very blessed to
have been visited by Pastor Andy, his wife Cindy, and
the church secretary Lynne from the Zanesville Alliance
church in Ohio. This was the first time they had come to
San M arcos. They report of their visit, “We were Pastor Andy, Cindy, &
impressed with the progress on the Children’s Home Lynne from Ohio
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building (especially the wonderful kitchen!) and the Children’s Home
enthusiasm of the Rameys as they get closer to being Contact Information
able to accept children into the home. It was also great
to see how each family member is adapting and how well
they and the Cookes work together.” Website:
www.faceofmyfather.org
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Meet the Board of Directors Email:

Face of M y Father Children’s Home is governed by a cooke_penielsm@hotmail.com
board of directors (in accordance with M exican law)
formed here in San M arcos. They are all members of the Tel: 011-52-386-757-0551
Iglesia Peniel church and are all excited about this new
ministry opportunity. Some of you who have been here
before may recognize their names: M ailing Address:
A.P. 8
Carlos Dominquez – President San M arcos, Jal 46540
Victor Venegas – Vice President M exico
Aurelia Ruvalcaba – Treasurer
Chelo Ayon – Secretary
Leticia Venegas – Board M ember Financial support for the
Lucila Amezquita – Board M ember Children’s Home may
Eva Amezquita – Comisionar be sent to:
The home also has a paid public accountant, who is a Good M easure
Christian brother from Guadalajara. We are so pleased International
with the way that all the legal paperwork has been 785 Harrison Ave.
handled. We ask that you would pray for the board of Charleston, IL 61920
directors as they make important decisions for the
Children’s Home even in these early days.
Check out their website:
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The Lord watches over the alien

and sustains the fatherless and the
widow.
Psalm 146:9