This is my weekly newsletter, The Italian Gringo, which I sent out today:
Greetings, Gringos! Boy, we are in a heap of trouble down here, so I hope that you’re doing better.
ONE PERSON at the Love in Action orphanage, without the knowledge or permission of the board, put out a newsletter attacking Hope House for not allowing homosexuals to take an orphaned boy home with them. A few weeks later, Hope House has lost 80% of its financial support. With 23 teen-age boys and nowhere to put them, Hope House might have to close. Three churches, including the one I attend, have dropped 20% in attendance over the dispute. The only two Christian orphanages in the area are now open enemies. Love in Action, the Christian orphanage where I volunteer, has published an openly pro-homosexual newsletter, as they are also losing financial support from secular organizations.
I show Christian cartoons at a Wednesday night children’s church, and on Saturday I round up kids for children’s church somewhere else. The two pastors have fallen out with each other over this dispute. One grief-stricken pastor told me how a friend that he has had for twenty years has turned against him over this dispute.
ONE PERSON did this. James 3:5-6 tells us Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity
2 Corinthians 6:14 tells us: “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?†When Love in Action started putting unsaved people on the board, they took over in a matter of months. While there is still a strong Christian influence, the Christian woman who started the place has been steadily demoted, and is no longer a major influence.
1 Peter 4:8 tells us: And above all things have fervent love for one another, for "love will cover a multitude of sins.†I’ve been there longer than any other volunteer, and I’m one of the few Christians left. Over the years, I’ve watched them quit over the ways they were mistreated by the director (the one who has been demoted), and I have also been a victim of her frequent hostility. There won’t be any kind of reaction in which the Christians stand up for what is right—most of them have been run off.
Hope House is supposed to run out of food on Friday. I’ll be heading there Thursday with a bunch of hard-boiled eggs and Easter egg dye that one of our readers sent me. Your prayers, Folks, are appreciated.
Adios, Vicente
Greetings, Gringos! Boy, we are in a heap of trouble down here, so I hope that you’re doing better.
ONE PERSON at the Love in Action orphanage, without the knowledge or permission of the board, put out a newsletter attacking Hope House for not allowing homosexuals to take an orphaned boy home with them. A few weeks later, Hope House has lost 80% of its financial support. With 23 teen-age boys and nowhere to put them, Hope House might have to close. Three churches, including the one I attend, have dropped 20% in attendance over the dispute. The only two Christian orphanages in the area are now open enemies. Love in Action, the Christian orphanage where I volunteer, has published an openly pro-homosexual newsletter, as they are also losing financial support from secular organizations.
I show Christian cartoons at a Wednesday night children’s church, and on Saturday I round up kids for children’s church somewhere else. The two pastors have fallen out with each other over this dispute. One grief-stricken pastor told me how a friend that he has had for twenty years has turned against him over this dispute.
ONE PERSON did this. James 3:5-6 tells us Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity
2 Corinthians 6:14 tells us: “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?†When Love in Action started putting unsaved people on the board, they took over in a matter of months. While there is still a strong Christian influence, the Christian woman who started the place has been steadily demoted, and is no longer a major influence.
1 Peter 4:8 tells us: And above all things have fervent love for one another, for "love will cover a multitude of sins.†I’ve been there longer than any other volunteer, and I’m one of the few Christians left. Over the years, I’ve watched them quit over the ways they were mistreated by the director (the one who has been demoted), and I have also been a victim of her frequent hostility. There won’t be any kind of reaction in which the Christians stand up for what is right—most of them have been run off.
Hope House is supposed to run out of food on Friday. I’ll be heading there Thursday with a bunch of hard-boiled eggs and Easter egg dye that one of our readers sent me. Your prayers, Folks, are appreciated.
Adios, Vicente