(Photo: The workers prepare the foundation for the long-awaited pavilion/chapel.)
Here we are, a quarter of the way through 2025, and that little group of kids we started feeding in 2018 has grown into a pre-K through fifth-grade school. We’re building the sixth grade now to be ready for next year, and the pavilion, where the kids will meet for meals from now on and for chapel, is in the works too. Your donations are what make this happen, and I want to encourage you that God is using your support in mighty ways.
John has been able to visit the campus twice since we moved to Costa Rica last year. He, Snoden, and Abraham are planning the construction projects together and facilitating training for the teachers and staff. We have fifteen people who work on the campus in Malawi to fill all of the necessary jobs to care for our 180 kids. It’s hardly enough, and we need to be very organized and strategic with the workflow. One of the newest developments is a cellphone for each teacher so they can not only communicate better but also learn English online each day.
We continue to grow a good portion of our food on our own farmland just down the road from the campus. We’re excited at the prospect of training some of the kids to farm, teach, and do other jobs that will benefit the program in the near future. Our original preschool group is almost old enough to begin vocational training. Along those lines, we have plans to build storefronts into the wall around our campus, where they can sell things and run small businesses like a hair salon or a mini-market.
Please let us know if you would like to visit the campus to see firsthand what you’re supporting. Whether you visit, send financial gifts, or pray and encourage us as we do these things, we welcome all of it. It’s not true that God won’t give us more than we can handle. He has clearly tasked us with much more than we’re equipped to manage. But He, time and time again, comes through in ways that surprise and amaze us, reminding us all that He is the one doing this—that HUGS for Tomorrow is His.
We’re privileged to be included in this life-giving ministry and want to thank those of you who already support it and invite those of you who don’t to jump on board. Taking care of orphans is at the center of God’s own heart, and what better place to be than that? Together the HUGS team is changing the world one kid at a time.
