Puebla Christian School and Calling the Pray-ers

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Puebla Christian School has begun the 2016-2017 school year.  Once again Abraham and I are part-time teachers there.  Abraham is the PE teacher for the whole school for the fourth year, and I am the elementary students´ art teacher for the second year.  Like last year, I will alternate teaching drawing techniques with teaching art history and doing a project related to the artist or art movement.  Around some holidays we will also craft gifts.

We just found out that Fani, one of the PCS teachers, a lady who also has three children attending there and who was on the board of directors, was diagnosed with a brain tumor that must be operated on as soon as possible.  At this point, she and her family have no other information about the tumor.

The tumor adds her to a list of people Abraham and I are praying for and helping in any other way we can.  My sister-in-law has a former co-worker, Alan, a 25 year old man, who is in the hospital receiving chemo treatments for leukemia.  His family is poor, and the treatments, while partially covered by public health insurance, are difficult for them to manage.

Another person recently diagnosed with leukemia is Irma, the grandmother of seven of the children we do Bible study with once a week. She believes she has the cancer because some one put a curse on her.

Our neighbor Luis, the teenage uncle of three of the kids who regularly attend Sunday kids´ club (and who used to attend himself), will be having tests done next week to determine the cause of his anemia.  The thought is that he, too, may have leukemia.

Finally, we are also praying for Hortensia, a lady who lives with another of my sisters-in-law.  She has been down with shingles for the last two and a half weeks.  The family has been trying to find creams, lotions, and natural treatments to relieve her symptoms, but she is having a very rough time.  So far nothing helps much.  For this family also, the expenses of treatments are causing strain, since their budget is very limited

This is just too much serious illness!  Please pray for these people and their families.

On a much brighter note, we were very blessed by one of the families that Abraham and Six regularly do a Bible study with.  Ernesto and Marisol are new believers, and they still have many habits to change.  However, they are taking the studies seriously, and two weeks ago decided to give Abraham an offering of money for two of the sick people mentioned above.

On Thursday evening, we heard a knock at the door, and Abraham went to answer.  He returned with a box of groceries that these neighbors had bought for us.  How wonderful to see them growing in their faith and willing to generously give!  It is encouraging to see them grow.  Pray for them as they grow, because they often face rejection and mocking from their relatives who live in the same compound.

We are checking to see if we can change a Bible study that we used to do on Fridays to Sundays.  The Bible study sometimes involves three generations of women, all of whom have serious difficulties in their lives.  Recently only one person, sometimes two, could be at the Bible study.  Last Friday, one of the ladies asked us if we could change the Bible study to Sunday, because it is the only time she, and perhaps her four-year-old granddaughter, can attend.  We will try going right when we arrive from church.  Six will stay with the children who arrive for kids´ club as they play, and we will return for the other afternoon activities.