HAMBERGERS: NEXT TO HEAVEN!

"Do you mean it Von, you'll take us to eat hamburgers!?!" All five wanted hamburgers more than anything else. So we picked up the elated young crew and headed to a new Carl's Jr. for hamburgers!

Kid food and personal attention. I asked them "when was the last time you guys had a hamburger?" They quietly thought and thought ... no one could remember having eaten a real Hamburger and gotten all the soda free ... this was a first time adventure and it was fun to watch! (Expensive it was! $70 plus but worth every $)

"Hey Von, will they have hamburgers in Heaven?" ... "Tonio, I don't know!"

I had planned this occasion for a reason, to get with each boy separately while the others were in Carl's Jr. Kids Play Room. Each boy needed attention badly. Too young to have fighting parents ... Not the time in their lives for father to split and leave them for another woman. Not the time for father to go back into drugs ... one boy with no father lives with his violent and mentally handicapped mother and crippled aunt. Each of these kids need to know God loves them and that we do too ... and we'll stick with them!

Hamburgers and sodas took them away from reality for a few happy hours. I'll assure you, these kids will remember the time of their first hamburger ... a life time memory!

Yes, these boys can use your prayers!

OK ... this is just one of a hundred ways in which we spend your money.

Thanking you!!!

ANOTHER INVESTMENT IN THE WORTHLESS

Two weeks ago in Mexicali, a government old folks home burned down killing 17 and injuring 26 of their people. Enter inspectors investigations and bureaucrats. Now all old folks homes in Baja are to be inspected and updated.

The Government gives these inspected old folks homes not money, but two months to comply with Fire Safety or they will be closed down.

Of course these old folks are on the edge of death any way, but laws are laws, regulations are regulations and indeed safety is very important.

Translated: Chuy is suddenly hit with a big bill!

Pastor Chuy let me know of this morning, and with 150 oldsters he's rightly concerned about where he's going to get the money to upgrade the home. It's a package of about $1,500. Quite a challenge.

When I say "worthless" it elicits mixed emotions, these oldsters contribute nothing to society in fact they now depend on society.

God loves each of these old people, although I can't speak for His Children ... we haven't much but we're going to pitch in.

If you want to send some help Chuy's way ... On your check write Pastor Von (Place stick-em note with Pastor Chuy's Old Folks Home.) and mail to:

Pastor Von
1043 Emma Dr.
San Diego CA 92007