About: Mel

I have been cooking all day today for our second Belize dinner that will take place tomorrow. We will be serving authentic Belizean cuisine and sharing testimonies and videos about the ministry. Please pray for us as we present at this dinner. Pray that God will give us His words to say about Belize. Pray…

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Every day I wake up one of the first things that I think about is Belize. I get sad. John and I REALLY want to be there so bad. We want to start our lives in the country that God has called us to. Then, I look at the task that lies ahead. We still…

Being a new mommy and maintaining this blog has been a bit difficult if you can’t tell by my lack of posts. I finally feel that now I am able to post every week again. The other day we met with our prayer team at our church and celebrated reaching our 50% in support. I…

On Friday evening I (Mel) received a call from my sister telling me that my abuelita (grandma) was in the hospital because of an brain aneurysm. The next evening she passed away. This was all very unexpected. The past couple of days have been filled with preparations for me and Evangeline to attend the funeral…

We are returning from our trip to the Bay Area to meet with Basil, Vera and the board of the Belize Mission. Basically, what we found out is that although Basil’s kidneys are not fully functioning, he’s optimistic about being able to return to Belize next month. By changing his diet and such, he hopes…

We received a call from Vera just two days ago asking us to please come to California. Vera and Basil are still in the states because of Basil’s health issues and Vera leaves for Belize to lead a team next week. It was a rather urgent request, so we dropped everything and have been preparing…

Hi all! John and I need your help. We just got professional pictures of Evangeline done and they look great! The photographer keeps a blog and she is having a contest. If we get 25 comments on HER blog about our pictures we can get a free 8 X 10. The post with the most…

This is the first chance I’ve had in days to even glance at a computer. I’m not complaining at all. My eyes have been so distracted by out beautiful baby girl. I wish all of you could see her in person. She is incredible. Here are the events that lead up to her birth: John…

Hi! Here we are at the hospital. The waiting begins. I was only 2cm dilated so they gave me a medicine called Cervadil instead of the Pitocin. They are hoping this will put me into labor, if not, I have to wait 12 hours. Please pray this medicine will take effect. It’s all in God’s…