Out There with the Beams -- August 2018

Dear Friends and Family,

We had a great tour of the U.S. this summer visiting friends, family, and supporting churches across quite a few states.  Thank you so much for hosting us so graciously as we traveled around the country.  It was great seeing old friends, meeting new ones, and sharing how God is working in Bolivia. If you are new to our monthly newsletter, then bien venidos!  We are now busy setting up mission teams for trips to Bolivia this fall and next year.  We hope you will join us on this journey and help us share God’s love by becoming a valuable partner in this ministry. 

Agua Yaku Update

While we were traveling this summer, my Agua Yaku crew began a new well drilling partnership/project with two local mission organizations, the Baptist Convention of Bolivia and the Swiss Evangelical Mission.  Marcos and his crew packed up the well drilling equipment and headed up to the town of Riberalta, located about as far north at you can go in Bolivia, right up next to Peru and Brazil—two full days drive from Santa Cruz.  The Baptist and the Swiss mission have been working in this area for years, planting churches and discipling new believers in the rural indigenous communities around Riberalta. 

Access to clean water has always been a top priority and a huge need in this area.  Local pastors and community leaders asked the missionaries for help drilling water wells in these remote communities.  After contacting Agua Yaku about the need, we began discussing the possibility of starting a drilling project in the area this year.  We needed to act fast because it is only possible to get the drilling equipment into these communities during the dry season months of July through October. 

This is where you come in! We need your financial help to complete this project.  We made the commitment knowing that God would provide the means to get this done.  We committed to drilling 65 household wells (with manual handpumps installed) in 13 rural communities where these two mission organizations are working.  Fortunately, groundwater is relatively shallow in this region and if we do not hit too much rock, we should be able to find good water at a depth of 50 to 100 feet.  If everything goes smoothly, we should be drilling three to five wells a week.

Water well recipient families have agreed to help with labor, to provide a meal or two, and to pay about Bs. 500 ($72.50 USD) to help cover the costs of materials, but after we pay the full cost of materials, fuel, travel expenses, salaries, mission admin fees, etc., the actual cost of each well will be closer to $600 USD.  We need donations help cover the remaining $527.50 cost of each well we drill, or $34,287 USD to cover the cost of all 65 wells.

We will drill as many wells as we can, but we cannot drill wells for every single family.  Many residents will continue to collect contaminated water from surface sources such as rain water, shallow hand-dug wells, rivers and streams, and even stagnant livestock ponds.  We want to ensure that each person has access to clean water regardless of whether they have their own water well.  Habitual use of water filters helps ensure that each cup of water a child (or adult) drinks is clean regardless of the original water source, and that it will not contribute to the endemic problem of gastrointestinal disease that is so common throughout this region. So, along with drilling water wells, Agua Yaku will also distribute water filters and implement a WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) training program. Agua Yaku will donate water filters to schools, health posts, and churches in each of these communities.  We will also offer filters for sale to families at a nominal subsidized price.  The cost for each filter distributed is approximately $42.00 USD.  We would like to distribute at least 300 filters during this project in Riberalta.  To reach this goal we need to raise additional counterpart funding of $12,600 USD. 

Combining the cost of water wells and filters, we need to raise a total of $46,887 USD to cover our commitment to this project.  Please consider being a part of the solution. Help us share clean water and the love of Christ through word and deed with these humble families.  We have already drilled over 20 wells in Riberalta in July and August, but we need your help to take the project forward. 

Stay tuned for an exciting update on our new AQUASIV water filter in the coming weeks. 

Blessings,
Danny

Out There with the Beams -- April 2018

Dear Friends and family,

Greetings from Bolivia.  This is Danny writing this month. We are just finishing up a busy season of spring teams and a productive visit with our EFCCM mission director from Canada.  I can’t believe that in just one month’s time we will be heading back to the U.S. for a two-month whirlwind tour through the towns of our supporting churches and mission partners.  If you would like us to host us on our journey or would like us to share about our ministry in your church or small group, please write and or give us a call.   We would love to see you in person and share how God is blessings so many people in Bolivia. 

Do you sometimes actually SEE and FEEL how God is partnering with you in ministry?  It doesn’t happen to me all the time, but it is so encouraging when it does.  I want to share two little vignettes of how God has recently “shown up” in the middle of our Agua Yaku activities.   I’m the first to admit that I don’t always plan with the greatest care to detail, and sometimes the lack of careful planning might even reflect negatively in my ministry results.  Several weeks ago, I took a team of 12 guys from Crossroads Church on a five-day motorcycle adventure through the Andes mountains.  We had six motorcycles, two follow vehicles, and a trailer full buckets, water filters, and Clean Water Stations. We had a great time visiting schools along the route where we installed water filters and trained the students and teachers in the health benefits of drinking clean filtered water, hand washing, and proper sanitation habits.  The plan was to give free filters to all the schools and to sell additional filters to as many families as we could at a deeply subsidized cost.  We will even accept handmade crafts from families who do not have any cash. Despite a few minor motorcycle mishaps and route-finding issues, we were on target to visit all the schools we had planned out for the week. 

On our fourth day out, we stopped for the night in a town called Aiquile.  Even though Aiquile is a good size regional town that I knew has huge water problems, I also knew we would be exhausted at the end of a rough week and I had decided earlier not to tackle the water problems of Aiquile on this trip.  Besides, Friday was going to be our longest day in the saddle.  Our plan was to get up early Friday morning and make a quick stop at one small school along our route back to Santa Cruz.    I thought it would be too large of a task to try and take on the whole of Aiquile’s water problem.  Well, I should have known that God loves everyone in Aiquile and He wants them all to have clean water.  As we were prepping the bikes, getting ready to leave on Friday morning, I walked across the plaza to take a few pictures of the modern Catholic church sitting catty-corner to our hotel.  The church doors were open for early morning mass.  Two ladies were on the sidewalk, ready to sell flowers to parishioners as soon as mass was over.  One of ladies, Rosemery, was watching me taking pictures and curiously asked what our crew was doing in Aiquile.  I told her about the motorcycle route and about the water filters.  She immediately said the water quality in Aiquile was terrible, that many people get sick from the water, and she wanted to know if she could buy one of the filters?  I said of course she could buy one.  Then she asked if I had free filters for the schools.  “Yes,” I said.  Rosemery said she was a teacher as well as a flower seller.  She said Aiquile has 12 schools in town and many more in the rural villages nearby.  I explained that we would be getting on the road right after breakfast, but that if she could call her friends I would give a filter to any school who had a representative in front of the hotel within an hour.  She excitedly packed up her flowers and disappeared into the back streets of Aiquile. 

It turned out that there was a national teacher’s strike called for on that Friday.  Normally, all the school directors would have been busy at work in their respective schools on a Friday morning, but because they were preparing for a march through town later that day.  All 12 school directors had the morning off.  Word of the water filters spread quickly through town and by the time we got back from breakfast in the market, there was a small crowd of people milling around on the street in front of our hotel.  We ended up doing a training session and a bit of evangelism right on the street.  In the end, we gave filters to the directors of 18 different schools, to the director of the local hospital, and we sold an additional 30 or so filters to individuals.  God knew Aiquile needed water filters and He wasn’t going to let us leave town without giving them away.  After our impromptu training and filter sales convention, the directors joined the parade of teachers marching around the plaza shouting for better salaries. 

Okay, I have to tell one more story about how tuned-in God is to the needs around us.  Some of you may remember when Agua Yaku distributed about 700 water filters during a huge flood in the spring of 2014.  Many of you reading this contributed to this impactful effort.  Well, the floods are back in 2018.  While not as severe as they were in 2014, they have still displaced thousands of families in the eastern lowlands in the departments of Beni and Pando.   Not to my credit, I have not reached out to flood victims with water filters this year like I should.  Instead, I have stuck to my own plans and program, drilling water wells and coordinating volunteer teams.  God still knows the needs of these flooded out families.  If I won’t take the filters to them, then He will bring them to me. 

Last week while I was working in the shop behind my office, I heard someone rattling the fence and shouting, wanting me to come to the gate.  I almost ignored the interruption, thinking it was just a salesman I didn’t want to talk to, but they were persistent and didn’t go away so I finally put down my work and trudged up to the front of the house to see what was going on.  There where six or eight young men out on the street asking neighbors for old shoes, clothes, food—any donations they could take away with them.  The two young men at my gate, Gabriel and Juan, were in their late teens or early twenties.  Gabriel explained that they were from a flooded community near San Borja in the department of Beni.  He said they were part of 25 families who had lost their homes, crops, and livestock and that they were all living together under a single “tinglado,” a covered roof located on the only high spot in their community.  Even though the flooding began in February, Gabriel explained that the water was just now finally beginning to recede. He said they had lost everything in the flood waters and they hadn’t yet received any government help.  Desperate, the families decided to send the boys out on a mission to Santa Cruz (at least 20 hours away by boat and bus), to see if they could bring back some help. 

I told Gabriel about our water filters.  He said they were in desperate need of clean water but that he didn’t even know that such water filters existed.  I quickly set up a water filter bucket in the back yard and trained Gabriel and Juan how to use it.  I sent the boys on their way with five filters, and with the promise for more if they needed them.  So, let’s summarize what God did. What appeared to have been random door-to-door begging was nothing of the sort.  Over two million people live in thousands of neighborhoods across Santa Cruz.  These boys, who desperately needed to find water filters for their community (and who didn’t even know water filters existed), knocked on the only door in Santa Cruz with water filters.  No, not so random after all. 

Pray that these 25 families from San Borja, and the 1000s more flood victims, can quickly recover from the flooding.  Pray, as well, that Christ’s love will shine brightly upon them and that they will come to know His saving grace through these tragic circumstances.  If you would like to designate a special gift for flood victims in Bolivia this year, please let me know.  $50 will provide a filter for a family in need, $500—ten families, $5000—100 families. 

Blessings,
Danny

World Water Day 2018

Good morning friends,

I want to remind you that today, March 22, 2018, is officially designated as World Water Day.  This is a great day to reflect on the importance of clean water in our own lives and in the lives of everyone living on this planet.  Most of you receiving this email do not have to think about clean water, it simply arrives to your home or business with a twist of the tap.  For many millions of people around the world this is far from their daily reality.  After traveling and working in Bolivia for over a decade, drilling water wells and distributing water filters, I have seen first hand the daily struggle that so many families go through to get water to their homes.  Some carry heavy jugs of water for hours each day back and forth from distant water sources. Many drink directly from the same water sources that their livestock defecate in.  Even communities with municipal water systems do not have safe water to drink.  I do not remember seeing a single rural community water system that disinfects or filters water before distributing it to homes.  Most systems simply collect water from some open water source and pipe it to the faucets.  A recent newspaper article reported that in Bolivia alone more than 40 children a day die from water related diseases.  I do not have solid statistics, but based on my experience I would estimate that at least 90% of rural Bolivians do not have access to safe clean drinking water. 

This is not just a problem in Bolivia, but a global problem.  A 2018 Newsweek video stated that 2.1 billon people currently lack access to clean safe drinking water, and over 1000 children die each day due to unsafe water and sanitation-related diseases. 

http://www.newsweek.com/world-water-day-2018-mind-blowing-facts-about-lifeblood-planet-earth-854342

In 2015, the U.N. agreed to a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved by 2030 that will improve the world in which we live. Number six commits countries to ensuring access to water and sanitation for all. “Clean, accessible water for all is an essential part of the world we want to live in,” it says. While many governments and large international agencies are striving to make this a reality around the globe, it will also take the efforts of many small actors and change agents, like you and I, to make it happen quickly.  Just think about the two-year-old baby up in the Andes mountains of Bolivia who will not die of a dysentery disease next month if we can get a water filter to his family in time. 

How can I help you ask?  My project, Agua Yaku, has been drilling water wells and distributing water filters in rural communities throughout Bolivia for over ten years now.  We have helped bring clean water to thousands of families, but we still have so much more to do.  It costs us about $1500 to drill a community water well, and about $50 to provide a family with a water filter that will ensure clean safe drinking water (no matter what the water source) for up to ten years.  Many of you on this mailing list have traveled to Bolivia and worked with us first hand to bring clean water to Bolivia.  You spent 1000s of dollars to come to Bolivia to befriend the beautiful people, to enjoy the fantastic food and culture, and to serve.  Thank you for coming. Even more of you have been supporting this ministry for years in prayer.  Your visit and prayers are a blessing. I know you left a piece of your heart here as well.  Now let’s keep the love flowing!

What did Jesus say?  “Truly I tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the Messiah will certainly not lose their reward.”  Mark 9:41

Let’s use World Water Day 2018 to show Bolivia how much we love them and care for them by helping fund Agua Yaku for another year’s service.  Our annual budget is about $100,000.  I would love to raise at least $50,000 (half of our annual budget) in recognition and celebration of World Water Day.  I thought about starting a fund-raising campaign on GoFundMe or some other site, but that would take too large of a financial bite out of your donation.  Please go to our Agua Yaku website, check out what we are doing in Bolivia, click over to the Donate page to make a one-time donation or set up a monthly donation.  If you just gave up a couple of premium coffees at Starbucks each month you easily afford to pledge $25 a month! There are tax-deductible donation options for U.S. and Canadian residents, or you can donate directly to us in Bolivia if you do not need a donation receipt.  I will be excitedly letting you know how close we are to reaching our goal over the coming weeks!

Thank you,
Danny

Out There with the Beams -- December 2017

Dear Friends and Family,

Merry Christmas to all our friends, family, and ministry supporters around the world.  We hope you are enjoying the holidays with your loved ones.  We made a quick trip to Texas to celebrate Luciana’s graduation from Dallas Baptist University and to spend Christmas with our stateside family.  We will be back in Bolivia shortly after the 1^st of January to begin a new year in ministry.  We are excited about the teams that are preparing to join us in ministry in 2018 and we are excited to see how God will expand our work to reach even more people with His love and compassion.  Thank you so much to all our faithful supporters who have partnered with us over the years. On December 7th, Vanessa and I celebrated our 20^th anniversary!  And we have been serving in Bolivia for almost 14 years! 

As you finish up 2017 and are thinking about where to invest your year-end charitable donations, please consider supporting our ministry with either a one-time gift or by setting up an automatic monthly donation.  We have fallen behind in pledges and currently need an additional $2000 a month in support.  Donations are tax deductible for U.S. citizens when they are channeled through the Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA).  Canadian citizens can make tax-deductible donation through the Evangelical Free Church of Canada (EFCCM).  Please click on the links above to begin the online process, or click on the DONATE button to the right.  Of course, we also need monthly financial support for Agua Yaku, our clean water ministry, and CAFA, Vanessa’s urban ministry for women and families—but honestly our priority right now is to bring our personal support budget up to 100%.  Thank you so much for prayerfully considering becoming a partner with us in this work. 

If you would like to come down to Bolivia and work with us first-hand in 2018, either as a family, or with a church or civic group, please let us know as soon as possible so we can make sure we have room on our calendar. 

Prayer Requests:

Family – Pray for Luciana and Nat as they are making their own lives in the U.S.  Nat continues to live and work in Fort Collins, Colorado, and in January Luciana will be starting an MBA degree at Dallas Baptist.  Isaiah is in the middle of 10^th grade at the Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center.  Please pray for Tom Combs, a dear friend and fellow missionary who is battling cancer. 

CAFA – Pray that in 2018 God will touch the hearts of women who are suffering abuse and need to hear the positive gospel message of love, hope, and healing that Vanessa and her team share with women and families in need. 

Agua Yaku – Pray that in 2018 we can successfully bring our AquaSiv water filter into production at an affordable price that will make clean water, and better health, a reality for 1000s of families in Bolivia and other countries around the world.  Pray that we can use “clean water” as a method reach many families who would not otherwise hear about or be receptive to embracing the love and hope that we have in Jesus Christ. 

May you celebrate joyously this Christmas season,

Danny and Vanessa

Out There with the Beams -- November 2017

Dear Friends and Family,

Greetings from the Beams in Bolivia.  We hope that you are finishing up 2017 with a flourish.  Oh, and happy #GivingTuesday! (I bet you know where this is going).  As most of you know, we are self-supported missionaries who have been working in Bolivia for more than 13 years.  We love living here and serving through our local church and our ministries to families in need, but as you can imagine we cannot continue to serve without the financial support of friends and churches back home.  If you are already faithfully supporting our work, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.  If you have yet to begin supporting our work, we hope that you will celebrate #GivingTuesday by coming along side us in our ministry and supporting us financially.  As happens, we have recently had some supporters who, for many good reasons, will not be continuing to support our ministry.  This is a blessing in disguise!  This leaves so much more room for new supporters. 

We have had the privilege of hosting dozens of volunteer teams over the years.  It has been a blessing getting to know so many people who have come down to share with us and support our ministries through hard work.  If you were blessed during your visit and can see God at work through us and our team of ministry partners, please consider becoming a regular monthly supporter.  Most of our partners contribute $25, $50, or $100 a month.  Some even more. 

To be completely honest, we need an additional $2000 a month in personal support to meet our monthly salary and travel expenses budget.  It would be such an honor to count you as one of our supporters. 

If we haven’t scared you off yet, below you will find current updates on our ministry activities. 

CAFA update and prayer requests (from Vanessa):

Beloved and dearly missed friends and family, it is a joy to be able to share with you details from our life and work here in Santa Cruz Bolivia.  It is an even greater joy to later hear from you!  It’s humbling and reassuring to know how many people pray for us daily and lift us, and those we work with, to the Father.  Your prayers do make a difference, both in our personal family life and in our work.

At CAFA (Alfarero Family Care Center) we are finishing our second year of caring for women, children, and men who are trapped in abusive situations.  Here are some stories to summarize the year:

I’ve learned that a lot people (some whom I see almost every day) walk around carrying an enormous amount of shame and pain.

One of our girls confessed she ran away from home with her boyfriend, only to find out he was very different to her in private. She became pregnant at 17 and as result of fear, violence, and loneliness she had an abortion.  Most of the time, I can stay calm and listen, but then, she told me “I count every year”.  My tears started to fall. What I can I say? What can I do? Only God can talk to her.

I was sitting at the Alfarero Café one day and a lady sat with me who I barely know.  She began telling me how hard her life had been, how she was fighting to be a good mom despite all her scars—scars from abuse, violence, and trauma.  How tired she was.  I just prayed and hugged her, knowing that whatever I had to say, it was nothing compared to the well of life Christ has for her.

One of my dear friends, someone I work with and admire, also talked to me at the café and told me how his life had been the product of a rape. From the way he talks about both of his parents, I would never have imagined.

In one of our volunteer training sessions, participants were learning to teach clients how to survive the next aggression.  Several of our volunteers raised their hands with personal questions like: “In my case…” “But if I had tried this…”

When we think of domestic violence, we usually think of an abusive husband; but, I have seen, abusive grandmas, abusive moms, abusive dads, abusive older siblings, abusive grandpas, and yes abusive husbands.  Many of our volunteers have said they have realized during our training that they too have been abusive.  I too have been abusive with my words.

So what now? True repentance. I come before God holding my shame and hatred, knowing I was once a victim and now I have been a victimizer.  Accept the fact that I can’t do life alone.  I was made to walk by the hand of Jesus.

One of our last sessions is on Identity and Brokenness.  “When we yield to the Presence of God in our most painful stories, we break away from the enemy and we stop torturing ourselves trying to understand.”

How many women did Jesus heal in the Bible? Giving them new identity, an identity tied to Him. I pray our 8 newest clients and our 9 newest volunteers and myself and my team (there are 5 of us) will continue today and tomorrow and the next day by the hand of Christ, respecting ourselves, believing who we are in Him, believing who He is.

On my last trip to Peru, I had to face my abuser.  I hadn’t seen him in years, and for a long time I was terrified of this encounter.  That day, somehow, my eyes fixed on him, I spoke clearly and didn’t run away or start screaming and kicking like I thought I would.  I declared forgiveness in the name of Jesus Christ and at the same time protected myself.  No hatred.  I am sure, forgiveness is given in different ways according to situations and people.  In my case this time, it meant: “I belong to God.” “You no longer have power to upset me.” “I am a strong daughter of the King.” “Your mistakes are yours to deal with.”

I thank my Father, who adopted me to make me again.  I thank Him that His hope was not stolen from me, neither was the joy of life or my eyes to see His beauty.

I hope today too, you my dear friend will be able to clearly see how God has protected you, guarded you, gifted you and cherished you. Amen.

Agua Yaku Update (from Danny):

It is hard to follow Vanessa’s emotional and moving testimony, but I will try!  We continue to drill wells and distribute water filters throughout many rural communities in Bolivia.  It is such a privilege and a joy to see the smiling faces of families when they witness clean water gushing out of the ground for the first time, or when they see how a water filter can change muddy brown water into crystal clear clean drinking water in a matter of seconds. The production of our own AquaSiv water filters is coming along slower than expected, but we are still progressing and hope to launch a Kickstarter fund raising campaign soon.  Our goal is to get the price for a filter down to a level that every family can afford.

We just finished a five-day water filter trip to 14 Guarani villages in the department of Chuquisaca with First Baptist Benbrook, distributing close to 100 water filters and Bibles to schools, health posts, churches and families.  At least half the villages we visited did not have any sort of evangelical presence.  We traveled with two local Guarani pastors, Felix and Placido, who were able to share the gospel and in the people’s own language.  It was a true joy to be able to also help distribute a brand-new translation of the New Testament in the local Guarani dialect.  Check our Agua Yaku Facebook soon for a new team trip video.

If you feel called to support our work, please follow the links in this email.  You can set up online giving or you can mail a check the old-fashioned way.  Monthly support or a one-time gift will be greatly appreciated and well spent.

Blessings,

Danny and Vanessa

Contact Us

Email:beamsclan@gmail.com

Bolivian Telephone:Home: 011-591-7768-1840

Home U.S. Mailing Address:Daniel Beams
8902 Bellechase Rd.   
Granbury, TX 76049

U.S. Telephone:682-205-1013

EFCCM web site:
http://www.efcc.ca/index.cfm?pageID=4

Our Websites:
www.beamsclan.blogspot.com
www.aguayaku.org

About our Ministry

We live in Santa Cruz, Bolivia where we work as missionaries with the EFCCM (Evangelical Free Church of Canada Mission), based near Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

We originally came to Santa Cruz in 2004 to work with World Concern, a Christian relief and development agency working in many places around the world. Our contract with World Concern was completed, but we still felt called to continue working in Santa Cruz, so in 2006 we began working the the EFCCM.

Danny, who has a PhD in applied development anthropology, works with local community groups and churches in projects focused on relieving poverty through a clean water project called Agua Yaku. We focus on drilling water wells and distributing point-of-use water filters.

Vanessa directs a ministry called CAFA (Centro de Atención Familiar El Alfarero).  This ministry counsels women and families on how to get out of the cycle of domestic violence.  An integral part of every project is sharing our Christian faith.

While poverty alleviation, material progress, and social justice are central to our purpose, we believe the best way to achieve material transformation is through spiritual transformation. The most important element of any person’s life is his or her relationship with God. If this is on the right track, everything else in life tends to fall into perspective.

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and the greatest commandment. And the second is like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Matthew 22:37-39

“So how can we help?” you may be asking yourself at this point. We are glad you asked. First, we need your prayer support. We know that with a strong prayer team behind us, God will use us in this ministry to reach many people for Him. Secondly, we are seeking ministry partners who can support us financially.

The EFCCM provides the structure of a church family, prayer, and spiritual and financial accountability, but they ask that we raise our own financial support to pay for living expenses, travel, ministry expenses, etc. Please pray for our ministry and prayerfully consider your financial investment in this ministry.

We need to raise approximately $5,000 a month to cover our living and ministry expenses. We currently receive about $3000 a month in support, so there is plenty of room for additional partners. Approximately 14% of what we receive is used for EFCCM administrative costs, 86% is used in Bolivia. If you would like to designate your gift for a specific project, please include a special note stating such when you make a contribution. If you know of anyone else (a church or individual) who might be interested in this ministry, please share with them what we are doing and have them contact us.

Click on the following link to become a supporting financial partner:

                                                              Donate Here

Out There with the Beams -- June 2017

Beloved friends and family,

This is Vanessa writing this one.  I am sorry I haven’t been able to write in a long time.  I first prayed this morning so the Lord would help me in communicated what He thinks should be communicated.  If it was up to me I would spill my guts and give you every detail about everything, good and bad.

I will start with news about our family this time.  Danny, Isaiah and I still are in Santa Cruz.  Isaiah just turned 15 this past May.  He is extremely smart, tall and handsome and as for now wants to be a magician (please, please pray about this!)  I try not to freak out and smile, but the Lord has been soothing my heart.  Isaiah went to help at a church plant-children center of our local church called San Isidro, and performed his magic for the kids there, he also played his guitar and helped with food and moving furniture around.  So, praise Him! He went to serve.  Of course we do not make a big deal out of it, because, I don’t know if you know this or not, but in the mind of a 15 year old, anything that comes out of the mouth of parents is a bad idea.  Isaiah asks very difficult questions about God, life and the Bible.  We try to answer the ones we can, we pray about the ones we cannot.  Please helps us pray that Isaiah (Ishi) will see the Lord revealed in his own life, and will embrace His love. 

Separation from our two oldest kids is still very difficult for me.  They are both living, working and studying back in the US.  I really miss the days when all five of us would pile up in our old truck and go places.  Please pray I will learn how to relate to adult children and still be a mother who speaks with wisdom when needed.  I miss Luciana and Nat a ton! And I miss Luciana, Nat and Isaiah being little children.  I’ve spent so much time and effort learning and trying to be a good mom and now they are leaving! What now?

Luciana just visited us a little while ago! It feels like such a huge gift to be able to hold her hand, or kiss her cheek.  To actually watch her as she talks to me.  I am very thankful to the Lord and to her for her visit.  I think Penny our dog is also very glad she came.  Lucy will graduate this December, please pray for what is next for her, may the Lord continue to hold her hand and guide her. 

Here in Santa Cruz, I am still part of a wonderful team of women working with women at CAFA and Chance and Ruth and Noemi.  Ruth and Noemi will again open its doors at the end of July and we will start a new training for volunteers in July and new users support group at the beginning of August. 

For health reasons, I will not be in the front line this time, meaning doing counseling or mentoring.  But I will continue to support the team, making sure they have all the resources they need to do the job and also making sure they get rest and fun.  Fun? Yes, indeed.  It’s a prescription extremely necessary for teams to bond and re charge.

We have several women on a waiting list to start the program in August and also have been containing two cases of inner family violence.  One them is a girl that will probably have to come stay at Ruth and Noemi for a while with her three children.  Remember, Ruth and Noemi is now reserved for cases of vital risk only.  So when I tell you this family might be coming soon, that means, please, please pray for their protection and ours. Pray that the aggressor will see the Lord! Will receive forgiveness, will feel loved and valued.  Pray the aggressor will seek help.  Pray the children and mom will not receive any blows at their bodies or their hearts.

My friend Monica and I went to visit the main local police station.  Met with sergeant Mamani Condori, and he was very polite and kind.  When I asked if we could call him directly when/if we had a case he said: “I might not be here anymore, I have been here two years already.   It is very difficult to see people’s pain day in and day out”.  That brought be back to the harsh reality in this country.  Where women are the most vulnerable group.  But it also gave me hope, to hear vulnerability from a man, from a police man.

Here in South America, most of us have been touched by violence one way or another.  Most of us when we were children, learning inappropriate ways to “solve” problems.  These ways have entangled us in despair, bringing pain and confusion with our loved ones and our Father. Yet, our Redeemer will come! He loves us! There is no shame! So, as for now, I make a pact to stay with the Lord, to live, to serve and wait for my healing, and enjoy life being surrounded by His grace and beauty, with the full conviction that it is not in my strength or energy that good things will happen.  But in Jesus.

Out There with the Beams -- May 2017

Dear Friends and family,

Hello again from the jungle metropolis of Santa Cruz, Bolivia! We have had a busy spring with teams and volunteers visiting and plenty of activity here in Santa Cruz.  Our family will be staying in Bolivia this summer, hosting several teams that will be focused both on ministry here in the city and in our rural Agua Yaku water projects.

Our latest team came from C. I. Thornburg, a water utilities supply company based in Kentucky and West Virginia.  A group of seven employees came to help us drill two wells in Pailon, a small town just east of Santa Cruz.  You can check out a video of there week of work and fun at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkFwkksM-VA&t=4s. 

In June, Crossroads, our home church from Kentucky, will be sending a family team to work with Compassion International and with a home for children called Judah Quy, where we will be painting and helping make improvements to the home.  In July, we will be hosting a team from the ABLE ministry that will help us distribute water filters in rural Guarani communities in the department of Tarija, which is south of Santa Cruz.  We will be working jointly with another mission organization that recently finished translating the New Testament into the local Guarani dialect.  We will visit communities where we will share both clean "physical" water and "living water" -- the hope of the Gospel message that is promised through Jesus Christ. 

We are continuing to develop our own brand of water filter, called "AquaSiv," which will replace the Sawyer filter that we are currently using.  The manufacturing in China is slower than anticipated, but it is still on course to be released this year.  We recently completed a video, which you can find at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJxlXVcD18A&t=12s on YouTube.  This video describes our work both drilling water wells and distributing filters and the importance of clean water, and proper hygiene and sanitation for the improvement of health in developing countries such as Bolivia. 

CAFA update:  Vanessa continues to work in the El Alfarero ministries and specifically in the administration of CAFA, the family counseling ministry that helps families break the cycle of domestic violence so prevalent in Latin America.  Please pray for both the counselors and the participants in these programs.  The counseling sessions can be quite emotionally intense as the deal with difficult past and current family situations, and the hard work of true forgiveness and hearing God's voice in the middle of crisis. 

We will soon be enjoying several weeks with our daughter, Luciana, as she has a chance to visit Bolivia several weeks in June. She will be graduating from Dallas Baptist University in December!  Please remember to pray for all our kids: Nat in Colorado, Luciana in Dallas, and Isaiah who will be a high school sophomore here in Santa Cruz in the fall.

Financial needs:  I don't like to focus too much on our financial need as missionaries here in Bolivia, but several key partners have not been able to continue supporting us this year.   We operate under the guidance and supervision of the EFCCM (Evangelical Free Church of Canada), but we are completely responsible for raising the funds for our own family support and for the operating budget for Agua Yaku and CAFA.  We are about $1500 a month short of what we need for our personal support for the year.  Thank you to everyone who has, or is faithfully supporting our work, we could not have been serving here 13 years without your prayers and support.  If you are not already on our team, please prayerfully consider becoming regular monthly supporters of our ministry.  Just follow the links on this email.  It is easy to set up a monthly donation, or a one-time gift, through the EFCA (Evangelical Free Church of America)—for U.S. citizens, or through the EFCCM for Canadians.  If you have any specific questions about our ministry or about how to become a partner please do not hesitate to write or call. 

We hope you have a great summer surrounded by loving family and friends.

Blessings,
Danny and Vanessa

Contribute

Our sending organization, the Evangelical Free Church of Canada Mission (EFCCM), provides us with a ministry family and financial accountability, but they require us to raise all of our own financial support through financial partners. We need to raise approximately $6,000 a month to cover our salary, insurance, retirement, and travel expenses (we currently receive about $4,000 a month in support, so there is plenty of room for additional partners). We also need to raise an additional $5000 a month for the Agua Yaku water project and $2000 a month for El Alfarero women's ministries.  Just so you are aware, 14% of all donations are designated by the EFCCM for administrative expenses in Canada. Please pray for our ministry and prayerfully consider becoming one of our valued financial partners.

For U.S. Residents:

Because the EFCCM is a Canadian organization, donations made directly to the EFCCM by U.S. residents are not tax deductible in the U.S. However, U.S. residents may make tax deductible contributions to this ministry through the EFCA—the Evangelical Free Church of America. Contributions received by the EFCA will go directly to the EFCCM for the Beams support and designated projects. A year-end tax receipt will be sent to the address you provide certifying the donations.

You may donate online using a credit card, or set up an automatic monthly contribution by visiting the EFCA website at the following link. Be sure to designate the gift for Daniel and Vanessa Beams, specifying one of following accounts:  Beams Support (#001-0116),  Agua Yaku (#001-0083), or El Alfarero Women's Ministries (#001-0141).

If you prefer to mail a check, please click on the link below to download and print a mail-in form.

For Canadian Residents:
Please donate directly through the EFCCM website.  You will receive the appropriate year-end tax donation letter. Be sure to and use the pull-down menu to designate the donation for the “Beams, Danny and Vanessa,” or select "other" and specify either: Agua Yaku--acct. #2-5035, or the Ruth and Noemi Transition House--acct. #2-5033.  To make your contribution a recurring monthly contribution, please follow the instructions on the donation page and email the home office with your request.

https://www.efccm.ca/wordpress/south-america/

Use the following link to print a mail-in form to send in with your check to the EFCCM.





For more information write to us at: beamsclan@gmail.com or visit our ministry blogs at: www.beamsclan.blogspot.com, and www.aguayaku.org.

Out There with the Beams -- March 2017

I hope spring comes quickly for all of you.  We have great weather year-round here in Santa Cruz, but I miss the changing seasons back in the U.S.  We have had a great start to 2017, already hosting two teams in January and February, and preparing for more in March and on through the summer.  It is so exciting to see the enthusiasm for ministry of so many friends and supporters to come down and join us in our work in Bolivia. 

In January, we hosted a team of eight Bolivian youth from a mission training organization called CIMA, who worked with Agua Yaku to distribute water filters in several rural Guarani communities south of Santa Cruz, down around Charagua.  We had a great week, providing clean water as well as sharing the gospel through drama and film.  Please be praying for Alcides, a local missionary from Machipo who works as a pastor and an agricultural consultant for farmers in this area. During the last month, Charagua has been invaded by locusts and most farmers will be losing their crops, and all their income, for the season.

In February we hosted a team from the Wellspring prayer ministry based in Lexington, Kentucky.  This is the second year they have come to bless people and give them hope through prayer.  It was so exciting to translate for this team and see how God so intimately loves and cares for everyone we encountered. 

In February we also had two young men from Oregon come volunteer for a month with Agua Yaku.  They worked right alongside our Bolivian staff who continue to drill water wells week-in and week-out.  We are preparing for more teams during March and April that will help in both our city ministries and in the Agua Yaku water ministries.

We are still on target to bring to market, and to our ministry, a new water filter called AquaSiv.  Manufactured by my partner in China, the AquaSiv filter will work similarly to the Sawyer filter that we have been using for several years now.  It will remove 100% of bacteria, parasites, and other disease causing pathogens that cause the epidemic problems with diarrhea and gastrointestinal diseases.  We are manufacturing our own filter to bring the cost down and to improve ease-of-use so that even the poorest and least educated families can gain access to clean water and improved health. 

Many people ask me why we focus on clean water.  Did you know that around the world, over 1,000,000 children under the age of 5 die each year from diarrheal diseases that are directly related to drinking contaminated water?

Just the other day I read in a local paper that in Bolivia alone, 40 children a day die from lack of access to safe drinking water.  The real tragedy is that most these deaths are easily preventable by simply improving water quality, hygiene, and sanitation. 

Studies collected by the World Health Organization show that access to clean drinking water can reduce diarrhea by 19%, simple hand-washing with soap can reduce diarrhea by 47%, and proper sanitation (which means using outhouses or toilets rather than defecating out in the open) can reduce diarrhea by 36%.  These three interventions combined can reduce the incidence of diarrheal disease by up to 90%.  

So, access to clean water is obviously important, but we also want to emphasize the importance of good hygiene (through hand washing) and sanitation.  But even simple tasks like washing your hands after you go to the bathroom or before you eat is difficult to teach and practice in households that do not have running water. 

To this end, we have designed the "Clean Water Station," a simple steel tripod stand that provides a place for water filtration and hand-washing with a device commonly known as a "tippy-tap." 

The tippy-tap is a foot-operated hands-free hand-washing station.  With this simple solution and bit of training and encouragement families will see dramatic improvements in their health and well-being.

For about $75 you can give a "Clean Water Station" (which includes both a water filter and a tippy-tap hand washing jug) to a family in Bolivia.  Please join us in our efforts to provide clean water, and bring renewed health and hope, to families in need.

If you would like to donate to our ministry, please click on the donate button and follow the instructions in the link.  We love working here in Bolivia and certainly feel God's guidance in all we do, but we cannot do it without partners like you backing us up with prayers and financial support.  Thank you to everyone who is already supporting us!  We look forward to see who else will soon be joining us in supporting God's work here in Bolivia.

Blessings,
Danny and Vanessa

Out There with the Beams -- December 2016

Dear Friends and Family,

I'm sure you are all preparing for a wonderful Christmas season, traveling to see friends and family near and far.  We send you season's greetings and a basket full of "Thank You's" for your faithful support of our work here in Bolivia over the past year.  Both prayers and financial gifts are essential for us to continue providing clean water through Agua Yaku, ministering to hurting families through El Alfarero, and sharing Christ's love every day.  Please consider a special gift for your Bolivian family during this giving season.  Click on the links in this email and follow the steps.  It's easy!

This year we will be spending Christmas here in Santa Cruz with Isaiah, and then traveling to Peru for the New Year to visit Vanessa's family for a few days.  Please keep our grown-up kids in your prayers.  Nat will be working through the holidays in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Luciana will be traveling to London with her college roommate.

Update on Agua Yaku:

We have had a busy Fall full of volunteer teams and travel to many rural communities.  In the last month we have hosted two teams.  First Baptist Church of Benbrook, Texas traveled with us to Iguembe, a small village located in the department of Chuquisaca (southwest of Santa Cruz) where we worked with Felix, a local Guarani pastor, to distribute water filters and Clean Water Stations in a half dozen isolated Guarani villages.  It was rough trip, with many long hours riding in (and at times pushing) our project trucks.  The need for, and the interest in, the filters was huge. We look forward to many return trips to the area so we can help pastor Felix reach these communities for Christ. 

Last week we hosted our first team from Creekside Calvary Church in Lynden, Washington.  This team of three brave men accompanied us up to the Guarani village of Itayu where attempted to drill a water well.  The springs that they normally rely on for water in Itayu have completely dried up in the past couple of years.  The families who live there now have to collect the scarce rain the falls.  Many families have left the community, so the government has closed the health post and will probably be closing the elementary school.  Honestly, our attempt to drill a water well was a last ditch effort to save the community.  The government did a study and said we could find water at about 330 feet below the surface.  Other drilling companies said they could not get their rigs up into this high mountain valley.  We contracted a tractor to drag our drilling rig up to Itayu.  Sadly, after four attempts at drilling a well we could not get through the hard layers of rock.  We did leave water filters in the community.  Please pray for Alcides, a local pastor and development worker who is trying to plant the seeds of the Gospel in this community.  We will be returning to the area with a Bolivian youth team in mid-January to continue our work distributing water filters and sharing God's love. 

We are still finalizing the production details on the new AquaSiv water filter.  They should be available in the spring of 2017.  Anticipation is building around the world!  We will keep you updated.

Update on CAFA:

It is a joy to say we’ve just finished the second Alfarero Family Care Center (CAFA) training for volunteers, we had 13 this last time.  It was a joy to get to know them.  The training involves topics like shame and hatred, a hatred that most of us develop to cover the shame we feel from lies from our past.  We encourage both participants and facilitators to share personal stories. 

Even though this group includes wonderful Christian people, this doesn’t mean we don’t have problems, or sad childhoods, or battles.  How beautiful it is to see and hear the footsteps of Jesus coming to rescue you.  When I say rescue, I mean to rescue from a life of sadness, depression, self-hatred, and mistreatment of those you love most. How wonderful to recognize His presence even in our darkest most painful moments and to hold on to Him and be free from the enemy and his so common question: why?

We are also two sessions away from finishing our program with our first group of clients! We have six wonderful precious women whose faces I cannot show you because their stories must remain confidential, but please pray for all of them.  We have young single women and older married women.  They have all experienced first-hand violence from those who should have loved them, protected them and cherished them.  They are all learning to forgive and to guard their hearts so they can in turn be like Jesus in their home and not be driven by bitterness. They are also learning to choose better, to make their voices heard (in wise ways), and to see themselves in the eyes of an ever loving, careful, sweet and respectful Dad.  His name? Jesus!

The Ruth and Noemi doors remain open, so if one of our ladies needs a safe place to live she and her kids will be immediately taken in.  They will become a part of Alfarero by doing hours at the Café and making and selling jewelry with Marizabel and me (Vanessa) at Chance.

Many thanks to the Holy Spirit for adopting us and keeping us faithful and joyful every day.  And thank you for your support: your prayers keep us safe, your intersession plus Jesus’s power heals those we work with.  And your support allows us to be trained, to provide child care during sessions, to provide snacks at each session, and to be ready to host women at the Ruth and Noemi House.

The Beams love you and are praying for you today!

Out There with the Beams -- April 2013

Hi! This is Vanessa writing this month. I love this opportunity to connect with all of you and remind you how important you are in the lives of everyone in our ministries and to us personally. Whether you support us financially, pray for us, send out our mail, send us teams, or raise funds on our behalf, we are so glad and grateful God has put you where you are and that you are being obedient to our Father. I know being obedient is not the easiest thing, I know it can be very hard and at times feel wrong, so THANK YOU!

Some things are new:

I know this is last minute, but if you haven't already heard, today, Tuesday April 16^th, our friends at at Crossroads Christian Church (our beloved home church) are sponsoring a “Bolivia Benefit Night.” They are having a dinner and have invited as a very special guest Mr. Joe Castillo whom many of you know from the show “America’s Got Talent.” We would like to extend the invitation to you, so if you are in the area, please go and have fun and support our ministries! Tickets can be purchased at the church itself or contact Jason Newland via Facebook.

At the transition house we have 3 new girls, one of them has a beautiful baby called Matias. These three girls have come to us from three very different backgrounds, yet all very painful and sad. Out of respect and confidentiality, I cannot share more with you about these girls, but I do ask you to pray for each one of them. Pray for their salvation, that they will see Jesus in a powerful way that no one and nothing can take away from them. Please also pray for their future, for their jobs (for bosses with integrity), for their babies’ health and for their hearts to forgive and move on.

We also have one other girl who is with us for the second time. I have seen the change in this girl since the time a dear friend of mine prayed with her and she saw Jesus coming to be with her, and then despite all the sad memories and pain, she said: “it is going to be okay, He is here!” Of course I know becoming new in Christ takes some time. During her first stay with us she made some poor choices and had to leave. This girl would not make eye contact, she didn’t want to be hugged or even kissed on the cheek as we do here for a greeting, she challenged us in everything we said and did. She was gone for about eight months--she kept in touch for a while but then kind of disappeared without telling us her new address. Finally, one day she called our director saying she needed help to find a new home for her baby. We were surprised, knowing how much they loved each other and how attached she had been to her baby for 2 ½ years now. When she came to us, we saw the misery and poverty in her clothes and in her eyes. She and the baby were wearing rags again. As she told her story we found out that the baby had become extremely sick and had to be in the hospital for several days. Because she could not show up for her shift, the mom had been fired from her job. They lost or sold “everything” they owned and were practically living on the street. She finally came back to “Ruth and Noemi” desperate for another chance. Of course we took them back in with open arms and shared a warm meal and gave them a bed.

She stayed, and after a while she confessed to us all the terrible things she had done to feed herself and the baby. When she told us, Dorcas and I hugged her and cried with her. I was mad that she had been too proud to call us when she first needed help, but in her mind those appalling things she did were the only choices at the time. We spoke truth about how there is always hope in Jesus, that the devil is a liar who makes us feel desperate and choice-less at times, but we need so seek until God opens a door. I am so very glad and grateful that she did. She called!!

God is so big. This second time the same dear pastor who prayed with her the year before was in town again!!! She had even more amazing personal time with Jesus again! These days she has a job in a nursery where she is allowed to bring her little girl. She is preparing to take an exam to become a certified nurse’s aid, also thanks to someone who was here on a team and is a nurse and who encouraged this girl. And she encourages the other girls by example on how to work, talk and even dress.

Sometimes we look at someone’s life and see no hope, but I try to remind myself to “look with the eyes of God.” He changes hearts and He changes circumstances. I have seen how He has done this for this wonderful, beautiful girl and her baby. He has used you, my pastor friend, my nurse friend, everyone who has painted and worked and visited at the Transition House. Thank you for being a part of this ministry. I am so blessed to be here and have the opportunity to see the results from the seed you have sown.

Urgent Prayer Request: Last night, Maria, one of our girls at “Ruth and Noemi” had an appendicitis attack. She was extremely sick with pain, fever, and vomiting, so we took her to a public hospital emergency room at 11:00 PM. They did laboratory analysis and said she needed surgery immediately but that they could not help us. We drove around the city to five other hospitals before we found a doctor who could perform the surgery. Thankfully, the doctor caught it in time. Pray for a quick recovery for Maria. This “Bolivia Benefit” night in Lexington could not be happening at a better time. Your generous support will help us cover the costs of Maria's medical bills.

Blessings,

Vanessa

Out There with the Beams -- February 2013

Dear Friends and Family,

Here are some interesting facts about Bolivia, according to a recent poll: Bolivia is 81.6% Catholic; 10.3% Pentecostal or charismatic; 2.6% non-charismatic Protestant; 1.7% Mormon or Jehovah's Witness; 0.4% Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, or Buddhist; 0.1% native religions; and 3.3% have no faith. So even though Catholics, Pentecostals, and mainline Protestants may not agree on the details, the overwhelming majority of Bolivian's believe in the same God. That is a great place to start from in a conversation about God's love and forgiveness. There has been a good bit of discussion in the public media in Bolivia about Mother Earth and the resurgence of traditional religions that worship nature. If this poll is accurate, it doesn't look like too many people are buying into that theology. Vanessa and I try to share God's love with everyone regardless of their religious background. We know that God calls each person to Him and that He has the power to heal all pain and provide for the needs of everyone in Bolivia. Pray with us that we can be a conduit to that end.

Ministry Updates—Agua Yaku

We recent took a road trip of sorts, traveling up to the highlands of Cochabamba to drill a water well in a rocky valley and to do a little more research for our new water filter project. We were contacted by a fellow missionary, Craig Oliver of SIM, who is helping provide clean water to Quechua communities in the Vacas municipality of Cochabamba. He would like to drill wells manually in this area, but wanted us to come in first with our equipment to see if it was possible before he invested to much of his time and resources in the project. I was pessimistic after seeing a narrow valley surrounded by rocky ridges at over 12,000 feet in elevation. A number of families had already successfully made hand-dug wells up to about 10 meters deep and Craig was hopeful we could penetrate the ground with our manual drilling system. The first attempt was not successful. In four or five different locations we hit rocks within the first couple of feet that we could not drill through. On the second day we drilled into an existing 6 meter hand dug well and were able to drill to about 14 meters without hitting any more rock. This greater depth will allow the family to pump water throughout the dry season, providing clean water for both consumption and for the irrigation of a second potato crop each year. So it looks like if Craig and the families of Vacas can get passed the top layer of rocks they will be able to successfully drill wells down into the deeper water aquifers and will have access to good clean water year round.

A second reason for our trip to Cochabamba was to speak with the staff of Food for the Hungry (a Christian relief and development organization), who had completed a pilot project with Sawyer filters in Cochabamba to study the health benefits of using water filters. The study was completed in a peri-urban squatter settlement where the residents do not have access to the city water supply. They have to purchase water from private companies who truck it in on a daily basis and sell it residents for $5.00 to $7.00 a week (10% to 20% of an average family income). There is no guarantee to the safety or cleanliness of the water they purchase. The drivers say they get the water from deep wells or other clean sources, but the residents say the water often smells of fish and they know it is unsafe to drink. I personally saw these tanker trucks pumping water directly from a filthy river flowing through the middle of downtown Cochabamba. Two years ago Food for the Hungry distributed 1100 filters to project participants and trained them on how to use and maintain the filters. They found that after four months of use, the occurrence of diarrhea in children under five years old had decreased by more than fifty percent.

While we are certain of the link between clean water and better health, we weren't so certain that people would change their old habits and continue to use the filters after the study ended. Jason and I went to the project community and interviewed Karina, a local FFH staff member, and also a number of families who began using the filters two years ago. Even though Sawyer guarantees the filters for 1,000,000 gallons, we were doubtful that families would actually perform the regular back-washing necessary to insure long-term functionality. We were pleased to find that the majority of families who received filters through the study were still using them consistently and reported marked improvement in their families health. Karina said many new families had moved into the settlement since the study and that there was a tremendous need for additional filters in the area.

We in Agua Yaku are excited about this new phase of our water project and cannot wait to get the first shipment of filters in from the U.S. The Bolivian paperwork is almost completed and we will soon be an official importer and distributor of Sawyer filters in Bolivia. A donation of $80 will help us provide a family in Bolivia with clean water for up to ten years.

Okay, since I'm (Danny) writing this month, my focus has been on water—but Vanessa is also going strong with her ministry in the Ruth and Noemi Transition House for Girls. So please don't forget to prayer for and support her ministry as well. Next week we will be hosting a team the Ames E Free church in Iowa who will be split between drilling water wells in Isosog, and helping Vanessa out in at Ruth and Noemi and the Talita Cumi children's home. If you have come down to Bolivia on past teams or just feel God calling you to support these ministries please click on the donate link and become a financial partner with us in these ministries. If you have read this far into our newsletter, I know you believe in what we are doing. In order to continue serving in Bolivia, Vanessa and I need additional partners for our personal support as well as for the projects. Please consider making a monthly pledge of $25, $50, $100 or more a month. We know that God will richly bless your faithfulness.

Blessings,
Danny and Vanessa