Día del Niño...

First of all, I wanted to start this much needed update with a HUGE thank you.  Each and everyone one of you who take the time to read our updates, comment on a social media post, pray for us, visit us, financially support us, are a tremendous blessing.  You who have walked this journey and adventure with us all for the past 10 years these have hopefully witnessed the incredible things that God continues to do through House of Blessing in Mexico.

This month, marks a year, since the school went from thoughts, dreams and a lot of prayers, to full fruition. April 2022 is when we hosted our interest meeting, thinking maybe 15-18 kids might enroll in our new school.  WOW were we wrong, and God definitely had something else planned.  Since September our wonderful staff and team of 12 have had the incredible privilege of teaching and ministering to 54 students (kinder-jr. high).

This week is extra special as we are celebrating Dia del Niño (Children’s Day) this week.  Each day has special activities planned.  Monday was superhero day.  How exciting it was to see all the kids come dressed up.  On Tuesday, we are hosting our Kids Fair at the school.  It will be a day full of games, food, music, bounce house, mechanical bull, the eliminator (not sure yet what that is exactly), candy, coffee shop drinks and much more.  Our students (kinder-6th grade), their families, as well as other families in the community will be joining us.  We would love to have you pray for our special event.  It will be from 10:00-2:00 PM.

Thank you again and i’m excited to share pictures and videos from our week. Here are a few pictures of of kiddos dressing up. Yes, that is my lovely wife Jackie in the Mario Costume. She won best dressed for the teachers and happend to also be the only teacher that dressed up. Her kindergarten class absolutely loved it!

#GivingThanks

This morning my wife Jackie was listening to her favorite news podcast, the News Worthy.  It’s a short daily podcast with a catchy phrase, “news made fast, fair, fun.” One of the updates that caught my attention was about Giving Tuesday.  Giving Tuesday is an initiative that started in 2012 that has gained massive momentum.  It is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving that is touted as a "global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world."  People are encouraged to not only give financially, but also of their time or talents or resources, etc.

Today was a busy day at our new school.  I gave 4 music classes for our 4th-9th graders.  The students are busy preparing for their Christmas Posada (Program).  As I walked the property throughout the day and saw children and teachers all over the place, I was struck with something amazing and humbling.

I cannot believe that this place was once an abandoned, dried up apple orchard.  And now, it is home to an ever growing and beautiful campus.  For the past 10 years, so many churches, businesses, schools, families, individuals, and more have given so generously, beyond anything I could have imagined.  So many of you have given generously of your finances.  You have given of your time in coming down with mission teams and just to visit.  You have given of your talents and abilities.  You have given your prayers, encouragement, kind words.  It is a bit overwhelming to think of all that God has done through each of you.

So, on this #GivingTuesday, we wanted to Give Thanks, to each and every one of you.  And especially to our Creator who has blessed us and House of Blessing beyond measure over the past 10 years.  We are so excited to see all the things that He will do over the next 10 years and we are especially thankful to be able to walk this journey with you.

Thank you so very much!

Jason

HOB Golf Tournaments Recap!

I’m very excited to finally be able to share with you all about the incredible success we had with this years House of Blessing golf tournament. Once again this year, we hosted tournaments in both Washington and Florida. Last year, we raised over $16,000 between the two events. We were hoping to raise more than that this year, especially with the start of our new school.

Well, we raised well above that number. In fact, between both our WA and FL tournaments we raised $21,343.00. WOW … unbelievable! To all of you that came out to our events to either play, volunteer, support of just hangout. Thank you so very much. To all of our sponsors who generously donated, thank you very much. To the support staff that help with graphics, fliers, pictures, videos, website, etc. Thank you very much. Because of everyones hard work, we are able to bless our new school with over $21,000. WHAT A BLESSING!

The school year began this past September 5th and things are going incredibly well. We have 54 beautiful students from Kinder to Jr High that have the opportunity to receive a wonderful education. Our amazing staff of teachers and personnel have done an outstanding job caring for these wonderful students All of this is truly made possible because of events like these golf tournaments.

So thank you again for your prayers and support for House of Blessings new adventure and chapter. We have made a few different recap videos of both golf tournaments. Please check out the links below for both the WA and FL tournament recap videos!

Florida Tournament RECAP!