One week before ChristmasDear Friends,
You’ll probably have little time during this busy Christmas Season to be reading letters, so I’ll keep it short. Just the briefest report on recent happenings:
* SADLY, we have had to close our Iquitos Programme that many of you have visited. I took the hard decision and the Scripture Union Board approved it at once. The reason was exclusively a financial one. Our local income and donations from abroad dropped dramatically and we had no choice. God is in control and the program which opened in 1990 will be reopened when we have a solid economic base on which to rest it. Pray that the boys may see Jesus even in this closing, scheduled for this Saturday, Dec. 20. NOTE: Puerto Alegria is continuing as is the medical ministry – independently financed.
* HAPPILY, the year will end with forty abandoned boys in the Homes in Puerto Alegria, Kusi, Ica and the Sacred Valley – 36 in Kawai.
* THANK GOD for our incredibly motivated staff and a brand new Board of Directors, extremely well equipped to face rough seas ahead with creative thinking and single hearted commitment to reaching children who have been dropped by the wayside and unfairly left behind.
We shall all this Christmas remember, each in his own way, the One who was laid in a manger, no crib for his bed.
Paul & Marty Clark
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