Eviction Notice

This is probably the hardest blog we have had to write, as this will likely be our last post as house parents at the American Indian Christian Mission (AICM). When we were hired, we were unaware of the doctrinal foundation in which the Mission was established. It was later that we learned the Board was from the Church of Christ background and through time, learned about the doctrinal differences between them and us. We, along with a good portion of the staff, don’t align with one singular doctrine; considering ourselves as solely disciples of Jesus. The differences between our beliefs were never at the forefront last year because we didn’t have any staff at the Mission that came from the Church of Christ background. 

That all changed this year when our Director, Principal, and Bible Teacher joined our staff; pushing their Church of Christ agenda. Many staff members have tried to establish a middle ground doctrine that all could agree on, however people who come from the Church of Christ feel that they are completely in the right and all other beliefs are completely wrong. As a result, we have had to face a lot of conflict this year with the Church of Christ people. It is extremely hard to be persecuted by people claiming to be your Brothers and Sisters in Christ.

The Church of Christ leadership of the Mission feels that our beliefs are too far apart and are unwilling to compromise. Therefore, Laura and I have been informed that our employment with the Mission will end the last day of school (May 23) and we have to vacate the property by the end of June. Naturally, this doesn't give us much time to find employment and housing. However, we are totally trusting God that He will provide both in His perfect timing!

Spending the past two years at the Mission has opened our eyes to the tremendous need the Native people have. We have also grown to love living in the White Mountains. God is calling us to stay in this area and to continue to minister to the Native people. Laura and I both have a heart for foster care and definitely feel God leading us in that direction. The puzzle pieces of what this new ministry direction looks like are coming together, but we don’t yet have a full vision of God’s plan. In addition to foster care, we have fallen in love with all of our girls and want to continue to teach them God’s Truth. Once we have secured a home, we are praying about taking in a few of our girls who could live with us and attend public school so that God can continue to grow them into His disciples.

We are excited about starting the next chapter of our lives. Over and over, we see God’s over abundant provision when we are within His will! We trusted God to provide the funds for all of our girls to go to summer camp. The fund raising efforts brought in an extra $2000 over the funds needed for camp!!! This extra provision will cover transportation costs, food, and camping supplies needed for both our girls and the older girls going to summer camp! It is clear that God wants these girls to go to camp and we are excited about their week learning about Him in Colorado! Please be praying for our girls during this time (mid-June), that they could become closer to Him!!

We are so thankful for those who read this blog and pray alongside us. We will continue to use this blog to document the next chapter of our lives. Although we are trusting God to provide, this transition from one ministry to another is not easy. We could really use your prayers and words of encouragement during this time. One challenge we are facing is difficulty locating financing for a home as a result of our short sale two years ago. Many of you have resources and abilities that could help us in this next chapter. We would love to hear your ideas for creative financing options! We know God will provide! We are already seeing some provision through our good friends and fellow house parents (who are also being evicted). They have agreed to allow us to fall under their non-profit so that we may receive donations and longer term financial support.

Our theme verse for this transition time is as follows: “For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!” 2 Corinthians 4:17

In His grip,

Trampas and Laura

Spring Time!

As always, we are behind on blogging and have a lot to update you on! After a cold winter and numerous snows, I believe that Spring is officially on its way. Coming from Las Vegas, we are surprised at how quickly we have acclimated to the mountain weather. In Las Vegas, 60 degrees meant winter clothes and a jacket. In Show Low, it means shorts, a t-shirt, and flip-flops! With highs currently in the 50’s, Keaton and I got out the hammock and have been enjoying afternoon naps outside.

With ten little girls to take care of, we find it difficult giving them all the attention they need and deserve during the day. For some reason, bedtime has become the best time to individually connect with each girl. The girls frequently open up about issues at home and at school while we are putting them to bed. This time involves lots of hugs, prayer, and sometimes tears. Of course, this individual time we spend with them at bedtime means Laura and I don’t get to bed on time. We are frequently tired and just wore out, but the time we spend with the girls at night is crucial and worth the sacrifice we make.

Every girl in our home has a story. Even though we are now familiar with life on the Rez, the stories of pain still break our hearts. From big problems like alcohol and drugs down to unemployment and apathy; these issues continue to destroy so many families. Our hearts break when our girls go home for the weekends because we know what they are going home to. This week, all of the students are home for Spring Break. Our girls were excited to see their families but also a bit apprehensive. A little girl shouldn’t have to throw bottles at a grown man to stop him from beating her mother. A little girl shouldn’t be afraid of men because her dad physically and sexually abused her. A little girl shouldn’t have to watch her dad hang himself. A little girl shouldn’t cut herself because it distracts her from her emotional pain. There is just so much pain and so much hurt. At times, Laura and I don't even know where to begin to start the healing process. Ultimately, it helps just knowing that God is on our side and dearly loves these little children. I know I mention this every blog post, but please continue praying for these children and their families. Please.

Only one out of the ten girls in our dorm has a father in the traditional sense. As a result, these girls miss out on important father-daughter moments. I purposely look for these moments to try to fill the void. It is important for these girls to learn how to fix things and how to tinker. When a household project arises, I grab one of the girls to help me. Helping me builds their confidence, teaches them how to use tools, and allows for some one-on-one quality time.  One of my favorite teaching opportunities arose when I had to replace a hard drive in a computer. I handed one of our 5^th Graders a screwdriver and allowed her to do it all, walking her through the process. She asked a lot of questions about the guts of a computer and, thankfully, I was able to answer all of them! When finished, she couldn’t believe that she had fixed a computer and couldn’t wait to tell her buddy at school about it the next day.

Fortunately, despite their rough home lives, we are able to provide many healthy outlets to help our girls cope. Going for walks, building forts out of tree branches, playing in the playground, movie night, and sledding are just some of the fun activities we do to try to keep their minds off of their homes. By far, their favorite activity is swimming! AICM is blessed to have a swimming pool (whose primary purpose is water supply for forest fire fighting helicopters). However, during the winter months, we have to take the girls to the Show Low city pool. While the pool has reasonable rates, these costs add up when you take 13 people swimming! We have really been blessed by receiving several one-time donations to cover the cost of swimming and have been able to go more this year than the last.

A few weeks ago, we had a team on campus from Camp Redcloud, in Colorado. They came to our dorm and talked to our girls about the camp. All of our girls have shown interest in going. We were able to get a discounted price of $350 per student. The girls are paying $50 of the fee so that they are invested in the camp and we are raising the rest of the money. We will be taking the girls in the middle of June to attend the Adventure Camp at Redcloud. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our girls and we know they will grow as a result of one week of camp. If you feel led to make a donation to help cover the costs of camp, please contact us at consolidation@yahoo.com

In closing, here are some pictures of recent activities with our girls:

The girls playing a board game.

AICM kids at the Show Low pool

Cindy and Thearsa

Joniqua and Jasmine

Keaton going under water for the first time with Joy watching on!

Naomi catching a ride

Joy and Naomi

pajamas + junk food = movie night

Building a fort out of tree limbs and scrap lumber

Oh, chopsticks!

It has been too long since our last blog post. I had a post prepared around the New Year and misplaced the file. Ah, technology! The biggest news is that we have all ten of our girls back with us! There have been so many family and illness issues lately; we have found ourselves several girls short each week for the past month. It is a blessing to have a full house again! Although having so many to care for presents many challenges, we truly miss each one when they aren’t in our home!

This Christmas, the students received a plethora of gifts from several churches that had created Angel Trees for the AICM kids. For those who aren’t aware, an Angel Tree contains ornaments, each representing a child and their needs. An individual selects a child and purchases gifts for them. The Angel Tree program is a great way for an individual to sponsor a child, meeting immediate needs without having to make a long-term commitment of continued sponsorship. It was really special to receive gifts, cards, and letters from so many different churches! The girls enjoyed hearing from individuals; learning where they were from, what their home life is like…. While they naturally enjoy receiving presents, getting letters from strangers who care about them and pray for them is special.

On this blog, we frequently mention the numerous challenges faced on the Rez. One topic not yet discussed is the frequency of teen pregnancies. Due to a lack of sexual education, reaching puberty at increasingly younger ages, and a lack of emphasis on abstinence, the Rez experiences an unusually high number of teen and premarital pregnancies. An unfortunate side effect of these pregnancies is abortion, which is culturally taboo but secretly practiced. In the past, one of our 5^th graders has shared with us that her mother gave birth to her when she was 13 years old. This week she shared that her grandmother told her she had encouraged her mother to abort her pregnancy. It is heartbreaking to think that our 5^th Grader wouldn’t be with us today if her mother had chosen to have her unborn daughter’s life terminated. While I am certain that becoming a mother at 13 years of age was difficult, God has a plan for this little girl and I am glad that her mother decided to keep her!

We feel so blessed to have this school here, which opens many doors to us on the Reservation. The only way we are able to form relationships with Apache families is due to the enrollment of their children at our school. The Apache are not typically welcoming to white people. The connection we have with their children allows us to connect with and minister to these families who so desperately need to hear the message of hope! Laura, in particular, has been extremely successful at connecting with the Apache women, many of whom now call her for prayer support and guidance. Ultimately, we recognize the benefit of teaching these children, who in turn, teach their parents. We know that God is at work when a student’s mom calls to complain (in a good way) that her daughter “preaches” to her on the weekends; encouraging her to make good choices that honor God and bring peace to the family.

We are frequently asked by those connected to the mission what our specific dorm needs are. Fortunately, most of our needs are met by the mission and its supporters. However, our biggest need is financial support for our dorm activities. As a result of the sheer number of girls in our house, neither we nor the mission are able to afford special dorm activities: eating at a restaurant, swimming at the city pool, going the movie theatre, or treating the kids with ice cream. Small donations to the dorm allow us to enjoy time outside of the mission with the girls.

We recently received a generous donation from a few individuals so that we would be able to take our girls out to eat. After discussions on where to go, the girls decided that they wanted to try the Chinese buffet. In general, our girls have had very little experience eating out, so the concept of a buffet (where you can get 2nds, 3rds, 4ths….) was foreign to them. It was fun taking them out to experience new foods, unlimited helpings, and chop sticks! The girls were well behaved and we received a warm welcome from the Chinese staff. We taught the girls a few Chinese words and they practiced saying “hello” and “thank you” to the staff. The white customers gave us interesting looks when we rolled in with ten Native girls, but that is part of the fun of taking them out of the comfort of the mission into the “white man’s world”. Questions from a few brave customers opened the door for us to share with them information about what we do and why the mission exists. Our girls were very well behaved and enjoyed trying new foods. We look forward to being able to take them out again!

The weather will start warming up soon, which means the mission will be inundated with Spring and Summer work teams. The team coordinator indicated that over the course of this season, over 1,000 people will come through the mission! Teams stay anywhere from a day or two up to an entire week. Teams are such a blessing to the mission. The assistance they provide allows the mission to get caught up on projects as well as offers some relief for the annual staff.  The fees they pay to stay here supplies enough income for the mission to operate up through winter (Gov. tax credits help us get through the rest of the year)! The highlight for the teams is to make the afternoon run on the Blue Bus to the Rez. The Blue Bus operates as a rolling Vacation Bible School, visiting a different neighborhood each day. The afternoon activities consist of a short bible lesson, some songs, then an hour or so of playtime. The Blue Bus is well known on the Rez and families willingly place their children on the bus, knowing they will return safely in a few hours. It is our primary tool for recruiting students for the next school year. I encourage any one of you reading this to consider making a visit to the mission. Seeing first hand Reservation life will forever impact you, I promise.

Thank you to those who take the time to read this blog. Its original purpose was to give us a place to document our adventure, allowing for retrospective reflection. However, we are so glad that we can share it with others so that they can follow along side us on this continued journey!

In His grip,

Trampas

The Season of Hope

The day before Thanksgiving is Native American Day. We celebrated the day at AICM with a weaving demonstration and a motivational speech by a former AICM student. We also heard a speech made by the current Ms. Apache Queen. She told the students how blessed the were to be able to attend a safe school, off the Reservation, which teaches them about how much God loves them. Some of the students’ Moms served us acorn stew (beef, broth, dumplings, and ground acorns) and Apache burgers (frybread and patties) for lunch. All who attended enjoyed celebrating Native culture and history.

Several weeks ago, we were blessed to receive a visit from some ladies from our Las Vegas church, The Stream. Although their visit was short, it was jam packed with crafts, songs, and a Career Day talk with all of the students. We frequently find ourselves singing some of the songs the Stream Team taught us. While here, the team also took measurements of our girls in order to make them camp dresses. Camp dresses are the traditional “formal” ceremonial attire of the Apache and Navajo women. The women typically wear a pair of moccasins with their camp dresses. The shoe design between the Apache and Navajo are quite different. It is said that the Apache women used to chew the animal hide in order to make it soft enough to use for making shoes. Anyway, we had a great visit with the Stream Team and hope that they will be able to return again!

All of the kids that attend the school have a story to tell about their home life. None of the girls in our dorm have a father in the traditional sense. Sadly, a few of our girls are motherless as well. One such girl has a both parents in prison. She lives at her grandmother’s with a slew of other people. She feels ignored and out of place. This past week, she described herself as an “orphan that nobody loves”. Drugs and alcohol have destroyed this girl’s family along with her feeling of self-worth. Unfortunately, these feelings are common amongst the children from the Reservation. A set of sisters were in tears this week because their dad had told them that he didn’t love them. Another girls’ dad told her that she was stupid and should kill herself. Despite this negativity, there is the good news that God is good and as His hands and feet, we are making a difference in these young lives. The following is an excerpt from an essay by one of our girls:

“When I ask Laura that I feel like I am worth less and she tells me I’m wonderful. She tells me it’s cool to be an Apache girl…So now when I think I’m worthless I think what Laura said. Another thing somebody say to me is Trampas. He thinks I am a cute little Apache friend. He also thinks I am huggable and I am a strong girl…their words help me feel like I am so special and blessed.”

It is touching that we have been able to instill hope and a feeling of worth in this young life. It was a year ago that this same girl was planning suicide. We know that God loves all of these children. We have learned that it takes time to get them to believe that, especially since many of them hear from their families the opposite message.

As always, please continue to pray for these children and their families. Also, please pray for the leadership of the mission. It is unclear what Board is has planned for this campus next year. They are making the battle decisions from an outside perspective. The staff is in the trenches, seeing God’s work being accomplished and the need for this school to exist well into the future.

God bless you for taking time out of your schedule to read this and to set aside time to pray for these precious young lives.

Crisp Fall

Fall is here! The trees have turned and the mornings are very crisp! We come to you with many praises on this, our 12^th week of school. For starters, the Boy’s Dorm house parents were hired and have arrived on campus! With their arrival, we are now fully staffed and Laura and I no longer teaching!! Hurray!! It is such a relief to be free of teaching; allowing some much needed R&R time during the day.

As a result of some seriously poor choices, all of the high school and a few junior high school aged girls were kicked out of school. Sadly, the junior higher we had kept over the summer and were ministering to was included in this group. It hurts that she was so easily influenced despite all the love and teaching we provided. However, despite this, God always has a plan!! Since the start of school, there has been a waiting list of students who wanted to attend our school but were turned down because didn't have room for them. The departure of these older girls created several openings for new students! We moved two of our 5^th graders into the older girl’s dorm, which gained a new 5^th grader, Viscena. Viscena's little brother, Landon, joined the Boy's Dorm. In turn, we gained a new 4^th grader, Cindy! As of today, our dorm is sitting at 11 little girls with room for one more. Cindy is the cousin of two of the little boys who already attend our school. She lives with her aunt because of her mother’s heavy drinking. Please pray for little Cindy as there is a lot going on in her head.

We are so grateful for the prayer support our little girls receive. They truly need it! The school put together a bio of each girl with prayer needs. I am not smart enough to know how to attach it here, so email at consolidation@yahoo.com and I will send you the bios. Color photos of each student can be found at http://www.aicm.org/images/students_2012-13/index.html. I encourage you to become a prayer warrior for one or two students. Daily prayer for a specific child and their situation will go a long way towards repairing their family situations! God answers all prayer; sometimes He says “Yes”, sometimes He says “No”, and sometimes He says “Not right now”.

We finally got around to taking some pictures of dorm life:

Trampas' mom leading a t-shirt craft. 

AICM Boys and Girls at AWANAS, a weekly kid's club at a Baptist Church

Diego, Eric, Julio, and Trent (left to right) at Awanas

Singing at Awanas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEXvGSQfT_o&feature=youtu.be

Our girls modeling the new coats that were donated. What a generous gift!!

Ricilla, from the Older Girls' Dorm, teaching Diego how to make fry bread. 

Older Girls and Younger Girls at the table ready to eat their fry bread.

Here is our harvest from our garden: cucumbers, pumpkin, green chili, radishes, watermelons, butternut squash, and cilantro  Our prayer to God was that we could grow at least one vegetable. Our prayer was answered and then some!! We have a better strategy for next year, so hope to have several full baskets a year from now!

...and this is one reason why our garden struggled all summer. This doe, and three of her friends, were walking about 20' from our front door, headed over to our garden to continue their destruction of vegetables. :)

I hope that you enjoyed these pictures! Please continue to pray for the students, their families, the house parents, and the mission.

In His grip,

Trampas

6 weeks and running

Written by Laura:

We press on with 12 girls in 3rd-5th grade living in our house/dorm.   Somehow, it is easier than last year. Partly because we have a year of experience behind us, and some because the girls overall are more cooperative and appreciative to be with us.

Each morning we do a short and simple devotional with the girls.  They are becoming more eager to pray and read scripture.  They are asking important questions and some have inquired about getting baptized. Our focus in the home is Jesus- praying to Him, trusting Him, living our lives to glorify Him as best we can.

Trampas has learned to drive one of the converted school buses to take 17 kids to Awanas each week (a Christian youth group kind of like scouts) at a local church.  The girls look forward to this! Last week the girls beat the boys twice in tug-of-war.  Our girls are tough!  We had a missionary volleyball team from Florida come and teach the girls volleyball for their PE class.  Some of the girls athletic skills is very appatent...and they pride themselves in picking me up and carrying me across the room! 

There was certainly an adjustment for the new 5th graders who knew each other from school on the reservation.  We are teaching them daily to get along with one another.  The level system is working out very well in this group.  The benefit for us is that we don't have to go to our wits end when someone is being defiant, we just tell them they have chosen to move down a level.  The benefit for the girls is that they can see what is expected in behavior and attitude.  Most of them strive to move up levels, so the ones that aren't so motivated see that as an example. Bag checks when they arrive and laundry day is very systematic; they line up their bags in order from 1-12, and somehow it goes smoother than when we were taking care of 5.  Homework time in the afternoon is the most challenging, because they all want help but there is only two of us. We take the time to check and have them correct their work so they can keep their grades up better than last year. Once a week I am taking 3 at a time out for some quality time which they all crave every day.

Family situations this year include parents being in jail, parents drinking and neglecting them, or some not having a father figure in their life.  One 10 year old mourns a family member who was murdered and she can describe in awful detail what happened. We speak to them daily about making better decisions for themselves and their future families, because they can understand the importance of having a mom and dad present in a child's life.  I love the hugs at bedtime. 

Praise God for our new director, Les, and his wife the new principal, Angie.  They have brought new leadership and compassion for the students at AICM.  They put in long hours and really care about us as people.  It is nice to work at a place where we are like a big family and all there for a common purpose.

Recently AICM has been blessed to have Dennis and Lucy Smith of Manos de Dios ministry come on board to be the older girls dorm parents.  They have been committed volunteers and encouragers to us for the past year.  Lucy is vibrant in her speaking out for the Lord and her trust and faith in Jesus Christ is transparent.  The older girls dorm is probably the most challenging assignment on campus, and already we are seeing positive change in that direction.  Lucy has put together a ladies prayer/worship time for staff once a week which is much needed and helpful to re-center on Christ and His purposes.

Kenny and Celia are becoming good friends of ours too.  They were brought on board for the bus ministry to take the place of Gene and Sherry who served for 15 years.  We are grateful to have them and their dedication to the students.  The bus ministry has been put on hold while they serve as the boys' dorm parents until we hire boys' dorm parents. The new director has been interviewing and hopefully will have a new boys dorm parent couple in by the middle of October.  Kenny and Celia are sacrificing a lot to switch roles like this so quickly.

Because we have been short staffed, Trampas and I have been teaching to help fill in the gaps.  Trampas is teaching 5th grade geography and Laura is teaching of all things that is not a forte- 7th grade history.  It has been a good experience and gives us a chance to connect with the students in a new way. But- it does take away from our personal time and we, like most of the staff, get tired easily.  We really have to guard our time off, our time with Keaton, and our bedtime in order to be at our best.    We hope that the couple taking the boys dorm will be in a position to help teach, which will be easier if they don't have young children.

Keaton has been doing Cubbies Awanas with the girls on Wednesday night.  He has also been going to Sunday school and Moms group weekly with Laura.  Since he is already a "busy" little boy, and to capture more 1:1 time with him and save some money, we decided to pull him from his daycare/preschool and do our own preschool with him.  It's a big change for us since he has been in a daycare setting since he was little.  But I'm looking forward to being able to connect with him in this way and glad we can have that option for our family for now. He's been learning to write some letters and draw shapes.  He is into spaceships and airplanes.  He likes chocolate milk every morning with a straw and his remaining baby habit is to rub a piece of fabric between his fingers while he drinks it.  He likes riding his strider bike with his yellow helmet.  Most of the time he and the girls get along great- as long as he has had his afternoon nap.  The girls look out for him and include him in what they are doing. He has picked up on their saying "K yah" which is akin to "oh my goodness."

Laura has been helping out a little with menu planning for the cafeteria just to stay active a little with dietetics.  She also reads her nutrition journals to help her fall asleep while keeping up with the continuing education requirements.  If and when there are teacher replacements, she would like to incorporate some health and nutrition education for the students.

Trampas likes taking us off-roading when we have free time.  He has intrigued his geography class with managing waterways and building rivers as a learning activity using a hose and an open dirt area on campus.  He remains a steadfast father-figure for the girls and makes sure not to miss out on guy bonding time with Keaton. We try to get up early and have coffee & tea together before the girls wake up and the chaos begins.

Roy and Kathy have come to visit again recently- Keaton loves to see his grandparents and the girls were also very excited to meet them.  We made T-shirts as an activity together one night.  This weekend we are celebrating the life of Roy's brother O.B. who passed away this week and attended his services in Tucumcari, New Mexico.

Well- thanks for reading and will update again when we can't remember what to write about again!



Prayer Requests:
For students and their families to seek God wholeheartedly and be obedient to Him; for parents to be released from their strongholds to substance abuse; for dads to be dads and moms to be moms.
Boys dorm parents to transition in well and for relief for us in teaching
For us to balance out where our time is spent-with our immediate family and with the girls
Extra $$ to take the girls out for ice cream or another treat ($20 goes a long way- but adds up for us with 12!)
For each student to have adequate monthly sponsorship

Blessings

Today marks the second day of the new school year and we are celebrating many blessings! Our house has been blessed with 12 girls, 3^rd- 5^th grade. The school has been blessed with 36 students (with another 20+ on a waiting list should we lose a few along the way). Having this many children definitely poses numerous logistical challenges, but we are slowly working through them. Amazingly, our bedtime routine has been able to stay the same as last year’s. At 8pm, all girls are expected to be in their beds and quiet. From 8 to 9, I read a story book, pray, and sing a song to each room (3 bedrooms, 4 girls in each). At the same time, Laura talks to each girl and prays with them individually. So far, we have been pretty good about getting done by 9. The girls, however, are still working on settling down and falling asleep on time.

We have entered this school year better prepared than the last. We developed a method to better keep track of performance, rewards, and consequences. Starting with the first night, we have had to put this method into action. Half of our house is below Level 3 (average expectations) as a result of them testing boundaries the first day. We already have one student dropped to Level 5, the lowest level, which entails lots of consequences and loss of privileges. When she continued to misbehave, she informed me that she was already at the lowest level and couldn’t go any lower. I reminded her that I can add additional consequences and that she was already in pretty deep. J

As many of you know through reading this blog, we live in a 1 bedroom apartment attached to the dorm which serves as our private residence. The lack of living space meant that our son had to sleep in our closet. Last year, our building was split in two, with one half set aside for the older girls’ dorm. With the increase in student enrollment this year, the older girls were moved to a previously unused dorm so that both girls’ dorms may have more space. A doorway was opened in the wall separating the two dorms, making it one large dorm for the little girls. An added blessing of this is that the area which was the older girls’ bedrooms were converted into a larger 3 bedroom apartment for us! The space is a little awkward, but we are so happy to have the additional living space without the need for an expensive building addition. As a bonus, our previous apartment is now available for guests! 

I finally got around to uploading some pictures. These are highlights from the summer and the start of the school year. Enjoy!

"Deep and wide"

Summer team from Highland Hills Baptist Church in Henderson, NV

Food distribution on the Rez

12 (one is hiding) beautiful little girls for the 2012-2013 school  year

Jumping rope