The last months of 2012 were very busy for us, the
Casa Semear team, because we organized several different events and day trips
for the kids and their families. In the midst of everything that was going on,
we couldn´t find the time to update you properly through this weblog. So,
here´s a short overview of everything that happened:
Day trip to
the beach
In November, we took the SemearKids, group of 8-10
year olds, on a road trip to the beach for a day! Most of them had never seen
the sea before, so you can imagine how special this outing was for them!
Team retreat
Also in November, we, the Casa Semear team, took a
week off work to rest and seek God together. We spent quite some time praying
for the project, for the families and the kids that God has given us to take
care of and we also spent some time together just dreaming and talking about
Casa Semear´s future. It
was a very good, fruitful time!
SuperWoman
program: Celebrating the end of one more year
We organized a fun evening full of activities for the
SuperWoman teen girls to celebrate the end of one more year together. As a
group, we thanked God together for a very good year full of friendship, growth
and learning.
Christmas celebration
On the 15th of December, we had our yearly Christmas celebration
together with all the families, kids and teens who participate in Casa Semear´s
program. It was a beautiful celebration where we were able to preach the Gospel
to the more or less 150 people who came out to be with us that night. The kids
also actively participated by presenting a sung musical that explains God´s
plan of salvation. And of course, handing the kids their Christmas presents was
a very special moment too, as it is always wonderful to see them happy and with
big smiles on their faces!
At the start
of a new year
January was a month of holidays for all of us at Casa
Semear, so only now are we back to work with the kids at the community center
and also trying our best to be back here at the weblog to regularly update you about
everything that happens at Casa Semear, about the things God does in us and
through us in the lives of the kids and families He gave us to care for. We´re
excited and feel challenged by everything that lies ahead of us in this year of
2013! We´d like to count on you to pray for us and support us so we´ll be able
to do our very best and together participate in what God is doing in the
community He put us in.
For we do not preach ourselves
but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus' sake. For
God, who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," is the One who
has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God
in the face of Christ.
But we have this treasure in
earthen vessels, that the surpassing greatness of the power may be of God and
not from ourselves; we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed,
but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not
destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life
of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus'
sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So
death works in us, but life in you.
While we look not at the things which are seen, but
at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal,
but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2
Corinthians 4:5-12 & 18
The Casa
Semear Team
