Medical Update: Estela’s Recent Surgery

Visitors to our home probably remember Estela, even if they don’t remember her name. She’s part of our Dorie’s Promise family as a foster child. Most notably, she’s also one of the leaders of our “pre-school girl welcoming committee.” Walk through our gate and she will be one of the first children...

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Reflecting on 20 years at Dories Promise

Next month, we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Dorie’s Promise!   I am proud of the home our team has created and I am looking ahead to many more years serving our children and the impoverished people in Guatemala.  Looking Back I have to say that 2020 has brought many painful challenges...

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Inviting Women to Invest in Themselves while Serving

Imagine someone stopping your car in the middle of a parking lot and offering to jump on a plane to Guatemala with you, trudge through the airport with 20 suitcases, and spend a week redecorating two homes.  Sound a little strange and far-fetched? Maybe, but that’s the short version of how Lisa...

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The Lasting Impact of Mission Team Gifts

As we wrap up the first week of August, we also end what should have been our last big summer mission week at Dorie’s Promise. But as you know, the summer of 2020 has not gone as anticipated for any of us. Looking back, we’re reflecting on the lasting impact of mission team gifts, even when we...

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The Happiness Gene: Efrain’s story

Every child in our home has a story, all of them difficult. Efrain’s story is especially hard, given all we know and the many things we may never know about his birth and complex medical conditions. A Baby in Need of Help Most of Efrain’s family history and birth story are a mystery to us. Even...

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Our Quick List of Quarantine Blessings

The past few weeks have been hard for us. We have officially been home for 4 months. Since March, our kids have been doing e-learning, the whole country has been under varying degrees of a nationwide curfew, and most businesses are shut down. Becoming anxious and extremely disappointed is fairly...

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