Jan
20
Written by:
David Strickland
1/20/2008 7:03 AM
Last month as we began to analyze our expenditures for this year and develop a budget for 2008 we realized that money was a lot tighter then we first anticipated. For a variety of reasons. A lot of people that said they would help seem to have forgotten. I guess that is normal. Intentions are always good but in the end when it gets right down to it it becomes hard to actually carry through. We had originally designed this site to stay in touch and update those that were interested in supporting us in the work we are doing. Thus as 2007 began to draw to a close we began to consider shutting down the site. It costs us about $14.00 a month to keep it going and since there are so few to keep updated it would be cheaper to simply continue to send out our newsletter instead.
So in Mid Dec. I stopped posting anticipating that we would shut it down in mid Jan. however after talking to some friends stateside they encouraged us that our blog was affecting more people then we realized and convinced us we should continue it for a while so we are back.
Manny and her Husband have moved into a small one room house about 15 minutes walk from our house. We spent New Years day painting it and getting it ready. They moved in on the third. Thier son is doing well it seems a little vacant on the first floor without him.
Manny's Doctor however has asked if we would be willing to take in other women that are at risk of starving thier unborn child to death. We said we would we just needed a little time to get things in order here at the house. I'm headed out today to look into how much angle Iron is going to cost us to make bunk beds.
We also contacted a lady that knows of many at risk children. We said we would be able to take in some more girls the first week of March. It should be a chaotic couple months. We were asked recently if there is any way for someone to help financially. We would definately appreciate if someone wanted to pickup the hosting costs for us.
Make Checks Payable to:
Heartland Baptist Church
3504 North Grand Avenue
Ames, IA 50010
(515) 268-1721
Also just include a note explaining that it is for David and Mercy Strickland. If you don't recieve it already drop us an email with your home address to ContactUs@Parentless.org so we can add you to our newletter.