Dear Fellow Believers
What a couple of months it has been. In just one month our temps have gone from the seventies to the nineties and the April hot winds howling. Good thing Richard and Victor got some of the trees trimmed so they don’t rub on the roofs of the buildings and cause damage. Last week the lunar eclipse passed through the valley. How amazing it is to see the awesome work of God. God showing us that even though darkness comes, His light is still shining on the other side and will break through to dispel that darkness. God is ever faithful.
I want to thank those of you that are supporting this ministry. We have been blessed by your generous gifts. Our prayers are that God would return unto you one-hundred-fold! We have been able to help the Mexico ministry, churches, etc., more than we have in a long time. It’s exciting to see so much getting done for God’s kingdom. Just a reminder, that you will receive your gift tax deductible receipts at the end of the year instead of monthly.
This last couple of months, we have been getting some work done here on the homestead, especially the parsonage (dad and mom’s home). My brother Clair from Pennsylvania brought two men from his church, Ray and Denny, to get a much-needed project done. They took out the whirlpool bathtub in my parent’s master bath and installed a walk-in shower. At the ages of 95 and 92, a shower is a lot easier for mom and dad to manage. Also, my brother Victor and his brother-in-law Alex rewired the house. I’m not sure when the house was built but it had old electric wiring that had to be replaced. This house is layered with brick, terracotta and concrete, and the old wiring was cemented into the walls. There was no way that they could push new wiring down through, so we had to run the wiring through the baseboards along the floor in some of the rooms. Not the best fix but the only option. In the front living room, they ran the wiring on the outside of the house under the siding, it looks beautiful, and gives great peace of mind..
My parents are doing fairly well. Dad just had his pacemaker replaced, I guess he is ready to go for a while yet. He is a little sore, but doing well. He just celebrated his 95th birthday this month. We will be having a big celebration for him on the weekend. Mom is undergoing therapy twice a week to help her gain some strength in her legs. We are in the process and prayerfully looking for caregivers for them.
Richard and I celebrated our fiftieth anniversary on February twenty-third. We were privileged to have two celebrations, one with our children and grandchildren at Christmas time and then a beautiful elegant celebration with family and friends from here in the valley. We have been so blessed and touched by everyone’s thoughtfulness and good wishes.
In early May we plan on taking a few weeks and head north to visit family in Iowa and Missouri. Richard’s mother will be turning ninety-seven this year, so he would like to spend Mother’s Day with her. We will have to be back in the Dallas, Texas area by the end of May because our granddaughter Eliza will be graduating from high school. My sister Sarah will again be flying down from Pennsylvania to stay with mom and dad and keep the homestead running smoothly as we travel.
Last newsletter we talked about Pastor Rosendo building a chicken farm in San Luis Potosi to help support the missions and pastors of that area. The first building is almost up and ready to go, it just needs the floor installed. This chicken farm will not only bless the pastors but also the community by creating jobs, which are hard to come by in that area.
We are now looking forward to preparing VBS and taking it into Mexico to minister to over five hundred children. We provide crafts for them to do, we feed the families that attend, and gift them a back pack with school supplies. I will be putting the preparations of the lessons into my sister Sarah’s hands while she is here, and we will hit the ground running when we return. We would love to have you play a part in this precious opportunity to pour directly into these beautiful children of God’s lives. Our budget is around $2,500.00. If the Lord lays on your heart to support this area of our ministry, we would greatly appreciate it.
You can continue to support us through mailing a check, or you can now send your support electronically by going to flameoftruth.org, pull up the donation page, select which area of Flame of Truth you would like your donation to go towards and follow the prompts.
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God richly bless you.
Yours in Christ;
Richard and Linda Hough
Melvin and Anna High
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