By Arwen McGilvra- This Thanksgiving we’d like to look back over 2014 and the many things we have to be thankful for at Dorie’s Promise Guatemala. To start the year off we shared the wonderful news of Chelsea going home to her Forever Family. This year we’ve seen many children go...
By MJ Zelya- The school year starts in January and ends in October in Guatemala. This year we’ve been very blessed at our home: children have been reunited with their adoptive parents, we have new children whose lives can now be forever changed, and we received many missionaries who have come to...
We first wrote to you in June about our vehicles needing to be replaced. We started a fundraising campaign to purchase a new 16-passenger Microbus. Thanks to many generous donors and their faithful support of this ministry, we have raised $45,700 of the $55,000 needed to make the purchase. We want...
By MJ Zelaya- Not only does Africa contain some of the poorest countries in the world, but there is also one country in the Americas, a very small country called Guatemala, where people exist and live in inhumane conditions. And it’s hard to say this when you are talking about the country where...
Part seventeen of our Missions Matter Series, come back each week to find out more about serving those around your home and community as well as around the world. God has given us the power to be His witnesses! Start today… By Heather Radu- God loves you all the time. He does not quit for a day,...
Part sixteen of our Missions Matter Series, come back each week to find out more about serving those around your home and community as well as around the world. God has given us the power to be His witnesses! Start today… By Heather Radu- Over 2500 years ago, the Jewish nation was conquered and...
By Heather Radu- While it is impossible to rank the importance of a particular donation to the work of Dorie’s Promise, I am especially pleased by a recent $500 gift from Cayce Dossett. A senior at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Cayce made her first trip to Guatemala last...
By MJ Zelya- Everyone who does the work of a Special Mother at Dorie’s Promise has an important role in the lives of our children that will be remembered for the rest of their lives. If not by a name, it will be by a loving gesture, good manners that have become a habit, polite character, and an...
Part fourteen of our Missions Matter Series, come back each week to find out more about serving those around your home and community as well as around the world. God has given us the power to be His witnesses! Start today… By Heather Radu- Did you know we have not always been called...
Part thirteen of our new Missions Matter Series, come back each week to find out more about serving those around your home and community as well as around the world. God has given us the power to be His witnesses! Start today… By Heather Radu- Loving junk food is easy, isn’t it? In America...
Part twelve of our new Missions Matter Series, come back each week to find out more about serving those around your home and community as well as around the world. God has given us the power to be His witnesses! Start today… By Heather Radu – I love music. I suspect you do too, since...
By MJ Zelya – God has blessed us with having had more than 200 children in our preschool classroom throughout the years. We give them the opportunity for not only education, but the chance to experience positive attention from teachers as well. At Dorie’s Promise, we try to educate our own...