tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66356451713821333462024-02-20T18:00:43.280-08:00Dare to Care IncSeeking to assist the poor and needy, oppressed and down-trodden, and offer them hope and a future.Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-23059781566909533792015-10-22T16:41:00.000-07:002015-10-22T16:41:24.872-07:00<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
Hi Everyone!</div>
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It has been awhile since you heard from me so I want to give you an update!</div>
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I am ready to head back to Nepal again and be "On the Mission" once again! </div>
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I was last there Nov and Dec of 2014. In that 7 weeks we were able to enclose level 2 of our new facility and get doors and windows installed. Hurray!</div>
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I was able to confirm that the 2 paraplegic women were settled in their new space and free of rats, condensation and rain coming the in roof ... Woohoo no leaks! They seemed very happy although Digri was sick and too weak to do any knitting for us this time. She did agree to try out the new wheelchair we had brought her the previous year but alas was only able to tolerate that position for about 5 minutes before wanting to be returned to bed. I doubt she has tried it in my absence but will offer her another chance to get used to it this trip too!</div>
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We were disappointed to be denied access to the prison this trip... security had been tightened due to escape attempts by some of the incarcerated so we took the warm mittens up to Anar Kholi, a church of 45+ members about 18 KMs up on the north ridge where it is always cold so our brothers and sisters in that community benefitted although the prisoners couldn't.</div>
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We also had a set back with the FM radio ministry and had to discontinue our programming due to technical issues.</div>
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Otherwise we had 18 women and 2 men participate in our skill training and product development program. These and many others are very excited to see level 2 of our building be completed and see us open the Education Center where we will offer literacy training in both Nepali and English, skill training, computer training, financial and business training and then offer microloans to qualified widows and single moms and handicapped individuals to start their own enterprises. Pray for $3000 to complete the plumbing, electrical and carpentry work and lay carpet and outfit a small kitchen and boutique. Pray as we begin to recruit the future leaders and teachers for this Training Center. </div>
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Level 3 has the concrete floor laid and the pillars with rebar up. We are praying for $8000 to pour the concrete roof and enclose it with brick walls and the needed doors and windows. If God should provide this now, I'd love to supervise the completion of this level this time while I am there!!! If you recall level 3 is to be a guest house so we can bring teams of folks to come network with this Nepali community and catch the vision of what God is doing in Nepal.</div>
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I got an email last month that the local church has been given the local FM radio station complete with a broken transmitter requiring 15 lak to fix it ($15,000). Pray the total need for repairs will come in quickly.</div>
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If we can scrape together $1500 of that, the church is willing to let us resume daily programming in the Dotiyali language for 2 years! What a wonderful way for the 140,000+ people in these remote mountains to hear they are loved and valued and that God wants a personal relationship with each one. We gear our programs to illiterate women and children who typically have poor self worth and low cultural value. We want them to realize how very much they matter to God! We hope to add additional children's and health programming.</div>
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Here are a few additional prayer requests:</div>
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*Pray for each of our 9 ministries as we assess the damage caused by the 2 huge earthquakes and the subsequent 330+ aftershocks ( registering 4.5 or > on the Richter scale)</div>
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*Pray for our 31 orphans- they slept outside under tents and tarps all summer due to fear of more quakes. We will try to assess for Post Traumatic Stress issues. The youngest is a 23 month baby girl whose mom was killed in the quake and the father can't care for a baby and keep his job as a bus conductor.</div>
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*pray for the prisoners - at last count 55 men, 6 women and one child. 5 have become believers and desperately need encouragement. Pray for the remainder to catch a glimpse of how much God loves them... no one else in that culture loves these social outcasts or remembers to visit them! Pray we will be allowed to visit and encourage. We plan to have the production team knit scarves with our yarn scraps to give to them as a Christmas present. If you are burdened for them contact me as I would like to buy something locally to add to these as a blessing to the prisoners. I will get them fruit for sure ( a rare treat for them!).</div>
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* I am taking a lady named Linda from Idaho with me on this trip. Pray for her adjustments and that we will be able to accomplish a lot together. We plan to tile, paint and organize the training center and look for whatever divine appointments the Lord should put in our paths!</div>
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*Pray God will show us where we should become involved with ongoing relief efforts from the earthquake disasters. We have some solar lanterns and have been given 30 wind up flashlights. Pray we'll know what families to disperse these to and if we should collect even more.</div>
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On a personal note : I returned from my last trip to Nepal in January ( had a delightful Christmas with my sister and family in Indonesia!) to an unpleasant surprise of a massive flood in my basement and a break in my pipe line 300 feet below my home. Insurance would not pay for a dime of either! It took me 8 weeks and a team from my wonderful church to clean up the mess! Talk about PTSD! pray for my house to be protected in my absence. </div>
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I finally got a job ( it's been 2 years without!) and I start tomorrow with orientation! It is" per diem" so I tell them when I am available! I will eventually be working 12 night shifts at the Franciscan Hospice Care Center. They only require I work one shift in a 90 day period so they are ok with my being gone already for 4 weeks. I was able to get 12- 8.5 hour shifts in the next 15 days before I head out to Nepal! The kicker is it's <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_123543172" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">7AM - 3:30 pm</span></span> and I am a night owl... so starting tomorrow - Monday through <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_123543173" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Friday</span></span> I must hurl my body out of the bed and drive 40 minutes to Tacoma and try to look alive and focus so early in the morning! "Brutal" for me as I rarely can sleep before 3 or <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_123543174" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4 AM</span></span>. Please pray for grace, energy and vibrancy to get through these next 2.5 weeks!</div>
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A Joy! I have a new baby grandson "Greyson Fox" he is 5 months old and such a cutie patootie! OML I didn't think it was possible to love anyone this hard! </div>
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SO I challenge you to faithfully pray for Nepal and those the Lord would have us bless these next 6-7 weeks! Pray for safety as there is some political unrest over the constitutional drafting and implementation. One town along our travel route had violence and several deaths. India has gotten involved and blocked fuel deliveries over the border into Nepal creating great hardships which may pose problems in our travel. We may need to skip the 30 hour bus ride ($21) and fly to Dhangadi ( $175 each way) followed by a 5 hour van ride up into the mountains. Pray we will find a way to get all the needed supplies out west.</div>
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I also challenge you to prayerfully come before God and ask Him to give you a # (of $) that He wants you to offer back to Him for His causes in Nepal. We are so aware that the opportunity to make HIM known is a small window so pray for us to allow His grace to flow through us for His glory! Pray we will recognize the divine appointments He puts before us and be sensitive to if/ when we should stand aside and get out of His way if we ever get to thinking this is somehow about us! #INAM (it's not about me) #all about HIM</div>
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Thanks for standing in the gap with us!</div>
Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-32785490466459313432014-10-14T18:43:00.001-07:002014-10-14T18:43:47.785-07:00Good news!!<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">GOOD NEWS! I am returning to Nepal</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">on November 5th</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">and returning to the USA</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Dec 20th</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">LORD willing!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am soooooo excited and so am having a HOLIDAY NEPALI BAZAAR to raise the needed funds to make this trip effective. Please open the attachment for the flyer and print off several copies. Keep one on your own fridge and give the others to friends or better yet post them in your workplace, church, library, grocery store, gas station or where ever they will allow you to put one up to promote this great cause!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Update: Last spring when I was in Nepal for 10+ weeks we ensured the paraplegic girls were in their new space. They moved in in November and were loving it, although some condensation problems with the wet cement caused dripping on the girls and it was very cold last year. A few electric heaters and a squeegee and teaching them to open their windows just a few inches during the day solved those problems and now that the cement has cured it should no longer be an issue this year.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> We began the second level which will be an educational center where we offer literacy, skill and financial training to widows, single moms and the handicapped and offer them micro loans to start their own business. The pillars and new roof were up when I left. The funds from a successful vendor booth at the Lavender Festival in Sequim, WA went out in August to complete the bricking in of the walls, so that should be done now. I am going to pick out windows and doors this trip and try to finish this second level. We need $5000 to do this including interior electrical and plumbing and furnishings so we can open the training center.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If we could raise an additional $15,000 I could go ahead and finish level #3 of this building which would become our guest house so I can start bringing teams of people from the States to network with this community and become involved in these peoples lives in tangible ways. Pray with me for minimum completion of level 2 and ideally completion of level 3!!! I firmly believe God has huge ways He wants to impact the lives of the impoverished in far western Nepal through these units of this facility HE has started and will work a kingdom difference through!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SOOOO to that end I am doing my part. I just finished assisting a couple on Whidbey Island have a huge Estate Sale this last 5 day weekend. We put out our Dare to Care products out and raised just over $1100 with that. So between this coming Bazaar and personal donations we are steering towards a goal of $4000 . My airline ticket was $1880 for those of you who have asked. This time of year flights are most expensive due to several big holidays going on in Nepal. I have not had an official job since last January so am also concerned about how to pay my mortgage for the 6 weeks I'm gone. I am trusting the LORD for that as well. He has always come through for me! So now you know the needs.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please pray about what your part might be. If you live in the Seattle area please come to the bazaar with your Christmas list as these are the most unique gifts each with their own story. Your gift dollars have double value here! Bring a friend and get a free handmade gift! Gift wrap also available on request. Could it get any easier???</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you are outside the Seattle area please consider a gift of any size designated to the ministry ( we have 9) of your choice. For sure we need all of you to lift us and the people we serve, up in prayer. Many hearts are ripe and I believe the Lord will use me and my Nepali teams as we love on these, His precious children. Especially pray for those in prison ... we will be trying to visit them in love again and are collecting stretchy warm knit gloves ( dollar store!) for them. I have a needs list, if any of you care to call me to help out with a few needed items I want to get out to them. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I just want to thank each and every one of you for your faithful prayers for me and the many God is bringing to Himself in rural Nepal.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Pray for the continuation of the radio ministry... 3x a week we have 15 min to share God's love over the airwaves. I'd like to take the back fees we owe for that as well, should any of you care to specify donations for that!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And for those of you that have financially invested your resources to make a kingdom difference there, I want you to know how blessed I am that you would care to sacrifice and serve with me to bring God Glory!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Till all have heard!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dawn Didi</span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.daretocareinc.com/">WWW.DARETOCAREINC.COM</a> ( check out our new updates and follow on our blog the next few months!)</span></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Paypal donations can be made through this site!!!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Send donations to "Dare to Care" at one of 2 addresses: PO box 4646. So, Colby, WA 98384 or </span></div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8/0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8/0" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">435 N Alfred St, Elgin , Ill 60123</font></a></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Phone <a href="tel:630%20272%200512" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8/1">630 272 0512</a></span></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnGBkKtiZM5wBLloapvHaLn9EOve-80Lm9OtWeY2UlDnjAZ7Vm2ApipbVZ57LbNrLhd4sSCujpUdKcVobvORP1qTX79XsrXgjYOgZOekxfvPTFVN6uR9n5JKCWYbJ125nz32snAXd5hOY/s640/blogger-image--1464566137.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnGBkKtiZM5wBLloapvHaLn9EOve-80Lm9OtWeY2UlDnjAZ7Vm2ApipbVZ57LbNrLhd4sSCujpUdKcVobvORP1qTX79XsrXgjYOgZOekxfvPTFVN6uR9n5JKCWYbJ125nz32snAXd5hOY/s640/blogger-image--1464566137.jpg"></a></div>Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-81958945761435784022014-10-11T17:48:00.001-07:002014-10-11T17:48:47.229-07:00Next flight booked for Nepal.Just booked a flight to Nepal for Nov 5th with a return Dec 20th. Next weekend I am having my big Holiday Nepali Bazaar from 10 to 6 pm each day at my home in Port Orchard. NEED $4,000 BEFORE I go. Please pray for God's merciful abundance.Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-49907042396182334802014-10-04T21:55:00.001-07:002014-10-04T21:55:50.246-07:00Save the date~October 10-12 and 16-19<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> am planning on returning to Nepal the end of October ( Halloween?) ... still have some important work to finish up over there! </span></div><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So to that end I am having 2 events:</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A big Fundraiser Garage Sale on Whidbey Island in Coupeville <strong><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">October 10th</a>, 11th and 12th</strong></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and a <font>Holiday Nepali Bazaar at my home in Port Orchard</font><strong><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">October 16th - 19th</a>!</strong></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You are all invited to either or both.10 am-6 pm all days but Sundays <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">1-5pm</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please bring lots of friends and tell everyone you know! Free prize for everyone that brings a friend!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We are praying for $4000 or more so I can complete level 2 of the new building finishing the training center and hopefully opening the doors for training!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I also have an appointment <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5">on Tuesday the 7th</a> to meet with the head of a store in Pikes Market called "Ventures" who are interested in carrying some of our product line in their store. They seem very excited on the phone about Dare to Care and our concept. Pray they will be as interested in person and seal a deal. They would consign our products!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks for your faithful interest and ongoing support! You have been a constant encouragement to me and I want to thank all of you who have invested in these impoverished Nepali women for believing in them and helping give them not just a hand out but a hand up. They are soooooo excited to think people in America like what they make! It really boosts their self esteem and creativity not to mention gives them added financial blessings through the labor and earnings. You have blessed them more than you realize!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I look forward to seeing you at hopefully at one of these 2 upcoming events! Shop early for best selection and think how great it will feel to be ahead of the Christmas shopping fiasco! And all while supporting a life changing cause!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blessings!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dawn Didi</span></div></div>Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-90392156424750744772014-05-09T04:03:00.001-07:002014-05-09T04:03:13.534-07:00Tis a lovely day for ducks....<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tis a lovely day for ducks.... its raining cats and dogs!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But the doors are open and the Chai and Tibetan fruit tea are hot for our Mother's Day Nepali Bazaar!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You didn't forget did you?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And I have a stack of animal tapestries ( rhino, lion and elephants) and over 20 new monkey hats and even a sheep and owl one too!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So although it sounds like a menagerie.... they are all benign except Achilles, my own cat... and he'll love on every one of you!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Come pick out something unique for Mom for Mother's day</strong>! Bring the kids and let them pick out something great for her and Grandma!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LOTS of new items!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One free raffle ticket for coming.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Each extra raffle ticket $2.00</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Raffle prize is a gorgeous tapestry valued at $65 or 3 pillow covers.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bring a friend and get a <strong>free gift.</strong></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bring your mom or daughter and get<strong>another free gift!</strong></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So now is the time... dodge those raindrops( and cats and dogs) and get on over here for best selection! Please avoid stepping on the ducks getting here too!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blessings!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dawn Didi</span></div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2/0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2/0" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">9850 SE Southworth Dr., Port Orchard, WA</font></a></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Call <a href="tel:630%20272%200512" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2/1">630 272 0512</a> for directions if you need to.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Benefits for the new training center for impoverished widows and single moms in far west Nepal.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Get the latest updates on the 2 paraplegic girls now happily moved into their new abode!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks for changing lives with me... for His glory and kingdom!</span></div>Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-7774697173373132882014-04-29T02:20:00.001-07:002014-04-29T02:20:21.989-07:00Save the date<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRkhIAdLaS0GJVMTUjSO3agCnsem_26KLTKA7cOVd-jzvt8y0CQllR48efxchGdp521pDQUKUvTb6WmWX6tDXT1rbykUcgiB5Ilko7CV9RxwY7A_7J1mhIkcEzuA70nCXMmWK2pUF20c0/s640/blogger-image--626251468.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRkhIAdLaS0GJVMTUjSO3agCnsem_26KLTKA7cOVd-jzvt8y0CQllR48efxchGdp521pDQUKUvTb6WmWX6tDXT1rbykUcgiB5Ilko7CV9RxwY7A_7J1mhIkcEzuA70nCXMmWK2pUF20c0/s640/blogger-image--626251468.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Save the Date! I am having a Grand Mother's Day sale... A Purchase with a Purpose! Since every one has a Mother consider making your Mother happy with a dual purpose benefit for your $!</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bring a friend for a free gift. Bring your mother for another free gift in one of our new jewelry designs!</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please consider printing these flyers out and passing them out to all your friends and acquaintances this week and even putting one up in a highly visible space to invite your community to attend!</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks for all your support and prayers!</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dare to Care</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dawn Didi</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="tel:630%20272%200512" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">630 272 0512</font></a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">PS are you on our Dare to Care FB contacts?" Like us" there!</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you are not in the Seattle area please pray us up and feel free to place a phone or email order any time. Orders placed prior to <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">May 4th</a> should arrive on time to honor your mom by the official day.</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you missed emails while I was in Nepal January through March and would like updates let me know. </span><br></div></div><br></div>Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-25077020705813567092014-04-02T21:26:00.001-07:002014-04-02T21:26:19.254-07:00Homeward bound once again..<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hi my friends,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am in Korea now gearing up for the last leg of my journey home. My flight to Sea Tac boards in about a half hour and I'll have 13 plus hours in the air. Pray for safety ... for Angels to keep me air born and for all birds to stay far away for the runways and therefore our engines! ( It was disturbing to read the paper on the flight from Dhangadi to Kathmandu to learn this is a frequent calamity at the Kathmandu airport! My flights in and out of there were uneventful and free of all flying objects... by the grace of God!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It had never occurred to me to pray for that!)</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">God has answered my prayer before it was uttered... for a dear friend to scoop me up from the airport tomorrow so I am praising Him for that! Of course I put out an emergency plea for that before I read all my emails to discover God had already prearranged it! So thanks to those of you who put up with me begging then 10 minutes later retracting my urgent request!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The last 3 days in Kathmandu were a whirlwind connecting with college kids, friends and business contacts. My connection with Lokta Paper Crafts was really beneficial netting a large future order as well as them consigning a large bag of our newer products. They loved our new merchandise which motivated me to try a new company called Dhukuti in Kupandole, K-du. Thanks to Debbie Martin's referral and her handy habit of putting every body's phone # in her trusty I- phone, I was able to get an immediate audience with the manager there and show him our product line and discuss our philosophy and motives. He said he was very impressed and wanted me to meet his production boss on Sunday but unfortunately he was too busy. They really want me to email them and send photos so they can consider contracting with us as wholesalers for their huge store. Pray for good results to come of this contact and connection. This would be ideal for us on many levels!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Instead I spent Sunday buying 30 Kilos of new wool and arranging to get it out to Dadeldhura again, and shlepping and packing 75 kilo's of our products with a new shipper who promises to have it to my door in Seattle within a week!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I also picked up Yam's jewelry the Brick makin' widows in Godavari have made, and managed to work in visits to several old friends and have dinner with a bunch of college students!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The day before I had the joy of meeting with Meike from YWAM who will be a new bride <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">on April 14th.</a>.. she is marrying Doyl from OM. Both have been serving in Dadeldhura much of the last 4-6 years. She allowed me to take her to a local florist and help her choose her wedding bouquets and florals! I wish I could be there for the wedding but will suffice to enjoy whatever pictures they send.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please continue to pray for the people of Nepal and for all the seeds that have been planted both spiritual and physical. Pray for a taxi driver I had a chance to share Jesus with... he says" he want's to follow Jesus someday soon". I asked him why not today and he says he is worried that his wife will not approve and follow too. Pray for breakthroughs in the spiritual darkness and growth in those saplings struggling to grow up into the light.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pray for a readjustment for me to our Seattle lifestyle again.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I need a job again. Hum... Mortgage is due!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am considering opening my own design business and hope to meet this week with a friend designing my business cards and a web site for this. I need clear direction from the Lord if this is the way I should go.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pray for a successful Nepali Bazaar soon. Keep the weekend before Mother's day open for another huge Nepali Bazaar at my house... Huge new shipments of new merchandise! Funds will go to the completion of the 2nd level of our building... the Educational center.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pray for an open door for Namrita ( Tara Datt and Sundari from the Bakery's, daughter) to get accepted into Chiropractic School here in the US and get grants to get her in. She is brilliant. If she cannot get in, she is considering going to Velore, India for Occupational Therapist school while her 2 friends ( Maya and Ceju) will go to the same school for med school. Entrance exams for Velore are in May and classes would start in July.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pray for what God would have me do next... I just want to be obedient.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Home tomorrow! Call me soon or drop by for chai!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks to all of you who have had my back on this last adventure!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blessings</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dawn Didi</span></div><div><br></div>Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-44399180593651576402014-03-25T15:51:00.001-07:002014-03-25T15:51:53.051-07:00It's a wrap....<blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDpyqUZ0cy8mFHNjXYXdxNWsGeKUEnJ9vuMu_7iwrkP_-t713BzK6OeRkkejVTtHylN2hbQaU0mrJ3lnjGxTy-rl8rCExBwHpmNqzLiHhiOuGqjoOJOS_-hdwJtfESP1YK1pCMrjs3qnE/s640/blogger-image-1101829320.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDpyqUZ0cy8mFHNjXYXdxNWsGeKUEnJ9vuMu_7iwrkP_-t713BzK6OeRkkejVTtHylN2hbQaU0mrJ3lnjGxTy-rl8rCExBwHpmNqzLiHhiOuGqjoOJOS_-hdwJtfESP1YK1pCMrjs3qnE/s640/blogger-image-1101829320.jpg"></a></div>All good things must come to an end, I'm told... so must a good adventure to far western Nepal. I can hardly believe how fast these last 9 weeks have flown by! But we have accomplished a lot, really, when you look at the overall picture.</div><div>The second level on the building is well under way. They poured cement pillars and then poured a cement layer connecting them that is the roof of level two and the floor of level three! It took 3 weeks for this 8 inch thick cement to dry and set up. We have been looking at posts placed every 2 feet supporting this "lantern" or ceiling for the last few weeks. The wooden posts came down yesterday and today so it looks like a big open tent now. We were able to track down the Tharu mistri/ contractor that did the work for us last year. He did a good job and we want him to build the stairs for level 2, build the pillars for level 3 as the rebar is sticking straight up. We have 22 bags of cement and some sand and gravel left over from construction. He will also build 2 more retaining walls at the back of the building for level 3 and the foundation for level 3 with this.</div><div> I have been advised by many here to use up these materials now before they are washed away by rain and wind. I have also been advised to fill in with the brick work and windows later as we have more funds. It seems prudent so I am going with it after considerable prayer.</div><div>Tomorrow Bhaggi, a neighbor will start digging the hillside of the back wall. We need to go another 12 feet back into the hill to pour the remaining foundation of level 3 and the 2 remaining retaining walls. Pray the neighbors , (Jeet') wall can be negotiated as he built his retaining wall without mortar or cement and the water has pushed the mud and stones onto our property about 8-10 inches too far. Either the whole thing will collapse onto our new "lantern" or we will be able to push it back into place where it should be so our wall can be straight and properly supported.</div><div>Pray Bhaggi will find a suitable place to throw all that mud an dirt and haul it away. He is asking $600 to manage all that!</div><div>We hired Lila to come fix all the little things the Dharamsala girls felt they needed: extend a faucet so Rama can reach it, cover every conceivable surface with "carpet" (vinyl linoleum stuff) because it all gets wet... they had 2 layers of dilapidated "carpet" and a layer of cardboard box over perfectly good tin surfaced cabinets. They set their gas cooking stoves on top of all this. And all three layers were continually soaking wet. Should this ever have dried, it would be the fireman's freakish nightmare! So I got all that off of these wooden cabinets and tried to convince them it was a fire hazard. But NOOOOOOOO they had to have more "carpet!" I laid down the law at more cardboard under there and Lila and I used my new staple gun and fixed them all up... for now. They are happy. and dry.. and now that the weather is cooperating... warm.</div><div> Digri is her old self again...s till weak and doesn't want to try out her new wheelchair ye,t but is smiling and able to knit when she wants to. She does this laying on her stomach in a waterbed mind you!</div><div>We got the jail to open up one Thursday and allow us to install the new "library" shelving and books donated by Prison Fellowship! Some of the big wigs from the gov. offices, including the CDO, attended the opening ceremonies and Pavitra had a chance to share in Nepali what this was all about and the love that accompanied it. P-ray the seeds that were planted will sprout.</div><div>Speaking of seeds, I was given a lot of Moringa Olefera seeds this week by a good friend and I have felt like Jonny Appleseed distributing them to everyone I meet. When I was in Senegal the 2 times I had the chance, we called this the "miracle tree" there as the leaves are very powerful nutrition/vitamins and healing agents! I am hoping they will grow at this altitude. I also sent a lot down to Sheshia to the Hansen's disease colony there as I know this is a tropical tree and has a better chance of producing down in the terrain.</div><div>I had a chance to teach a session at a YWAM DTS last week! That was really a treat and the class was so attentive. My 4 points: You matter to God, He already loves you to the maximum so you don't have to try to impress Him or get Him to love you more, On the flip side... You cannot get Him to un-love you so don't test Him, An He has a plan and a purpose for you ...it is unique to only you... so just be yourself and discover how He has wired you.</div><div>Last week for 5 days, Sundari and I put in 15 to 18 hour days at the bakery as she had a class of 20 taking "tallim" ( training) at the church and they contracted with her for 3 meals a day plus chia at 4 PM for them all. On top of that she had several NGO's send groups to he bakery for meals or pizza or soup of the day. One was the Finnish water works team of 12. And then there is the usual 7 men from the UN plus our large extended family! So Thursday night we served 48 people dinner!</div><div>That was the night I had to pack as well, (took me till midnight!) as Debbie Martin was leaving the next morning and there was a possibility she could get one of my bags in her vehicle headed for Kathmandu.</div><div>Turned out she could only get my small bag in but not the suitcase. A few prayers and bagels the next am, Jukka on the finish team offered to take my suitcase with him as he had a flight to K-du the next day!</div><div>So great how our big God, worked that all out for me!!!!!!</div><div>The last few days I have spent paying all the laborers in the OON ( yarn) factory. We had 18 women making woolen goods and 2 men making handmade wooden buttons! These were all so grateful for the work and pay for these last 9 weeks!</div><div>Well I'm packed and ready for leaving dodge tomorrow! My friend Khem, will pick me up about 1 pm at the bakery and we'll head over the next 6 ridges and down the mountains to Dhangadi. I plan to spend the night with my good friend and brother, Balwa and his adorable family. I have a flight on the Yeti tin can ( twin otter... hold 19 passengers I think) at 1420 on Thursday to Kathmandu.</div><div>I have 3 days to wrap up all my work there and have a flight booked to Seoul, Korea on Monday. I'm looking forward to the Regency Hotel free stay as I have an 18 hour layover there and then the 13 hour direct flight to Seattle on Tuesday, April 1st. Funny... I arrive in Sea Tac before I even have left Korea!</div><div>I am so looking forward to my own bed, an actual shower vs a pour bath and a really amazing salad! and maybe a treat of a little ice cream!</div><div>Funny what you miss after a steady 3 meal/ day diet of dal/ bhat! </div><div>So I'll see some of you next week and can take phone calls after I recover from jet lag about Thursday!</div><div>Thanks for seeing me through to the end of this adventure! You prayers continue to sustain me!</div><div>I'll try to keep you posted of any high adventure.</div><div>Blessings... It's a wrap!</div><div>Dawn Didi</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-uz_jRqtSvvPk5fOlVHWerLEEBo1M7sq6hV87ZZONoccWZHntw-1PjIRmb4nKYyEuE5pWzM0VQ11rLRwhUvOZwxS3dxMjijmUddLCq7BwEqgK0kGitH_Rz1v4dgftvOPPXwYKGo4d384/s640/blogger-image-1664707381.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-uz_jRqtSvvPk5fOlVHWerLEEBo1M7sq6hV87ZZONoccWZHntw-1PjIRmb4nKYyEuE5pWzM0VQ11rLRwhUvOZwxS3dxMjijmUddLCq7BwEqgK0kGitH_Rz1v4dgftvOPPXwYKGo4d384/s640/blogger-image-1664707381.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5M5rdjRjwOSPy2oK_yrUvBj-YjcUfRBODyxVyhWg9MSMRZz6sRmQemILBLWeY-P9ChvbWSeCYd3JPB3xQ0dCnUA3xsUX5BZGVPMd7yhiAQUSWb9fj2d_ZkM_9G_JublkTFSDKNRAHFTo/s640/blogger-image-1082966915.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5M5rdjRjwOSPy2oK_yrUvBj-YjcUfRBODyxVyhWg9MSMRZz6sRmQemILBLWeY-P9ChvbWSeCYd3JPB3xQ0dCnUA3xsUX5BZGVPMd7yhiAQUSWb9fj2d_ZkM_9G_JublkTFSDKNRAHFTo/s640/blogger-image-1082966915.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br></div></div></blockquote>Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-43011578770501396632014-02-22T13:21:00.001-08:002014-02-22T13:21:38.698-08:00We are building yet again:)<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhneMKiWrJlZ7N2knXFsDKPunsBa5iRUbHPlXV6MHfBoqqSBo7bR3MbTY94QGy985q9d0HWoTI68riXtFz-jyyZMxC8pB50-KGB8Q9J8IeHGTJBEncCO_h_Y9po94THs5FRGvoU-d2sD0/s640/blogger-image--726944893.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhneMKiWrJlZ7N2knXFsDKPunsBa5iRUbHPlXV6MHfBoqqSBo7bR3MbTY94QGy985q9d0HWoTI68riXtFz-jyyZMxC8pB50-KGB8Q9J8IeHGTJBEncCO_h_Y9po94THs5FRGvoU-d2sD0/s640/blogger-image--726944893.jpg"></a></div>Hi Everyone,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just want to thank you for your prayers! Some of them are already being answered so keep praying please!</span></div><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our Radio programmer is out in India studying to become an ophthalmologist. He wrote me that his wife and 2 small kids ( 5 and 1yr) are lonely and want to join him in Chandighar. He has 2 full years left in his courses. He attends a Nepali chu-rch there and if they are together as a family he and she can both work together on the programming. I think it is a good idea for their family to be together.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I want you, our prayer supporters to know about this so you can begin to pray for this. We will pray more funds will come in for programming so I can give them a blessing more before their planned transfer just a month from now in March. We have paid up their salary through January 2014. It would be so great If I could give them their salary for the next 11 months. It is only $100/ month. Praise God for their faithful service of producing quality messages and programs in the local Dotiyali dialect that reach 140,000 or more 3 x per week in their own tongue!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The building is progressing. The pillars are finished for this next level today so they are collecting "Kaat" ( wooden supports) to build the structure to support the "lantern" (cement slab roof of level 2 and floor of level 3).</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Pray for Sundari. Her husband is my general contractor on all the building we are doing here. She is very sick these last few days and He is somewhere in the terrai. She is wondering if she should go to a hospital in Dhangadi, Nepal Gang or Kathmandu??? is it just a virus or more serious? She has been to this local Gov Regional hospital 2 x in 24 hours and still the Dr. did not examine her! She has a history of Lupus and a fragile immune system so it is hard to know what is really going on in her body. But the LORD knows!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SO sad there is no adequate medical care here now!.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Digri is slowly getting better and was able to find strength to knit me 5 hats in 2 days. I send her a piece of fruit everyday and occasionally a piece of cake to encourage her. It seems to be helping along with your prayers and encouragement! Some of you have sent specific words for her and she has taken them to heart! Pray for her full recovery from this UTI</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Little Laxmi ( Rama's niece and caregiver - only 10 years old) also has some serious health concerns but there is no Dr. to diagnose her condition. I took some video we hope to send to Dr. Caleb, a pediatrician in Kathmandu, to see if he can help with his opinion.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sundari's father occupied the bench in the bakery and took pills to try to lower his BP for about 10 days. Both Tara Datt and I tried to teach him how important it was for him to drink water, that his blood is like dhahi ( yougurt) and one glass of water per day is not enough to keep his BP down and flush out his kidney and bladder stones. He would not listen and simply would not drink water. But he would get up most bitter cold mornings and go up to the old outdoor kitchen, change into a thin dhoti ( sheer gauze like fabric) and sit in the cold and make his own fire and his own rice and eat it before changing back into his Nepali suit. He is HIndu: Bhramin and cannot eat rice from anyone else's hand.Then he would return to the Bakery Café bench and demand blankets and hot water ( but to wash not to drink!) He ended up with 3 thick Korean plush queen size blankets and a heavy sidik ( comforter) and my extra heater I had lent the family.. all for his personal use in the bakery so he could be near a toilet. So 5 other members suffered with cold for the 10 nights he was here hogging all the blankets! But he is the grandfather after all. 3 days ago he suddenly decided the BP medicine was not bringing his BP down fast enough - he was going to Kathmandu. An hour later he was on a local vehicle down the hill to Dhangadi. He vomited the whole way down the hill and went straight to the hospital in Dhangadi as by the end he was vomiting blood. He spent 2 nights there and yesterday got a flight to Kathmandu. He needs your prayers on many levels.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I must admit I was amused... the one night I made spaghetti for the family, he decided to abandon his Hindu restrictions and ate 2 bowls of my salad and 2 big slices of garlic bread! I'm pretty sure he wasn't supposed to eat from my caste less hand! </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Still no word on the repair for the FM transmitter. Raj is due back tomorrow so hopefully he will have some answers. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I took a walk for 4 KM's today to view a new house some of our community neighbors have just built. I sunburnt my nose! I'm sure you wanted to know this valuable tidbit of info. It does verify the sun does shine here and yes it is starting to warm up! PTL</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well it is late so I will close this for now.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Keep those prayers coming please!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dawn Didi</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhdGfakvjxbzY7WJNGEFWgsq0oLcN1MgcXHBt57FqKschh09wP76s4AStCbn5mDCdWyRzOgVz1Z8OKDcSc3HDvzRAgc7BxQkGcAMSrWirwsB24B8vUi88n8aCWKAT5jIV5t8IBz1wmLns/s640/blogger-image-1711903401.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhdGfakvjxbzY7WJNGEFWgsq0oLcN1MgcXHBt57FqKschh09wP76s4AStCbn5mDCdWyRzOgVz1Z8OKDcSc3HDvzRAgc7BxQkGcAMSrWirwsB24B8vUi88n8aCWKAT5jIV5t8IBz1wmLns/s640/blogger-image-1711903401.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI8Vs0gqpr9vMqGZ3CIYuOgbaHP5hj5_4wKGwMT6pfaRq8iUPmMVaARdmZXBsalOffgaCM6wR8D8bpSQnCOss-Ry9_yW9smX6ZTdbdmb9GbwQkkAGo8Zj8UOUyGjoEv0lCSB_lmcRZQ_0/s640/blogger-image-182546552.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI8Vs0gqpr9vMqGZ3CIYuOgbaHP5hj5_4wKGwMT6pfaRq8iUPmMVaARdmZXBsalOffgaCM6wR8D8bpSQnCOss-Ry9_yW9smX6ZTdbdmb9GbwQkkAGo8Zj8UOUyGjoEv0lCSB_lmcRZQ_0/s640/blogger-image-182546552.jpg"></a></div><br></div>Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-26543691436609583672014-02-15T23:57:00.001-08:002014-02-15T23:57:12.847-08:00Snowy and cold but feeling better:)<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span></div></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just wanted to give you a few updates on life from this side of the world!</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The weather has been very nasty here. It has been super cold here the last 3 days with rain, hail, snow and sleet. We are all bundled in multiple layers trying to keep warm!</span></div><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We had snow here today. The ground was covered as church let out.The snow in the passes on the surrounding mountains sure makes the hills a pretty sight when the clouds lift! The kids made a small snowman with spoons for arms and coal for eyes and a lellow toy for a nose!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Last night the storm hit us with lightning and struck the transmitter out on Afno FM, the tower just above us...please pray for quick repair so the Christian programming can continue. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yesterday we were able to narrow down a contractor for the construction of the next level of the building. We were able to negotiate a good price for the labor and started ordering supplies today though delivery of them was obstructed by the inclement weather! We are still finalizing the contract with the guy so it is just as well.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We are also working with the local Ch-urch and the NGO they have formed- they are finalizing their constitution and proposals but it looks to be a good thing for us to place our interests under their registration otherwise we will have to create our own NGO here in Nepal.( a long arduous process full of beaurocratic quagmires with the existing Gov. ) Please pray for wisdom in this decision and clear direction in this regard.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks to those of you who prayed for my health... it took a whole week but I am better, rehydrated and energetic again. Thank God for Tinidozole!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks to those of you who prayed for my cell phone. I bought a new one complete with sim card in K-du 2 weeks ago and on my first week out here had it in my pants pocket. A baby peed all over me and I took them off and plopped them in a bucket forgetting that I had put water in that same bucket earlier... uh huh... 5 hours later I went around in circles looking for my phone! I found it all right- just where I had left it!! I immediately took the thing apart and dried it out but being sick, it was a whole week till I had the energy to walk to town a mile each way to see if it could be saved! Yesterday I took it to the NCell office and presented it to the clerk with the words "now don't laugh..." they were able to fix it and use my same battery and sim card and so there was no charge! PTL! There was considerable laughter amongst all the clerks in spite of my admonition!</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">About 10 days ago... Tuesday I think it was, I went with Megh Raj and met with the CDO to ask permission if we could go to the jail and bring the gifts we had, to the inmates. He approved ( turns out he was the assistant CDO... the antagonistic one, head CDO, was away in Dehli) That same afternoon, 4 of the YWAM girls, Megh and I went trotting off to jail. Turns out the "jailer" was in Dhangadi with his very pregnant wife awaiting the birth of their child and the "assistant jailer" was reluctant to let us all the way into the inner court as they had had a recent escape and he did not want to be held responsible for anything going amiss. So we were let into the first passage but had to pass the socks and mittens one by one into the guard through a double set of iron bars and all the male inmates were lined up inside to receive them. We could see most of them and talk to them. They all remembered me and were joking with me. They were all very grateful for the warmth and thanked us for the gifts and remembering them. One of the Ywam girls, Rochelle, had a few minutes to explain why we were there and why we had brought these gifts from our church and that many people were praying for them and it was all because of the love of Jesus. He loved them inside those bars as much as He loves us on this this side of the bars. She did an eloquent job and Megh interpreted very accurately. So they heard the truth and we pray it will set them free... at least spiritually! Thanks to those of you who donated those socks and mittens! They have reached their destinations.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We are praying for another opportunity for Follow up and to take them 2 radios so they can listen to our Chr-ist-ian programming. again pray the transmitters can be repaired!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Turns out Pavitri that came with me to the jail 6-7 times last year has decided to take this prison ministry seriously and took some training and got herself a " get into jail free" card from Prison Fellowship Ministry. She can take me and whoever she wants right into the inner courtyard any time the jailer oks it and has built up a nice relationship witht he jailer. They are allowing PFM to create a small library inside the jail. PFM donated 11,000 rupees for the bookcases and she had them made up already and are ready to install! PFM will then donate all the books those shelves can hold! The inmates have asked for a few books they knew to ask for and those will be obtained as well and the remainder will be Ch-risti-an.... hummm Crazy huh!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So I am waiting to hear the jailer is back in town and we will follow up! (with a present for the new baby of course!) </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am having guests <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">for dinner tomorrow night</a>... maybe 6. The Leaders and the staff of the Ywam team are to come for spaghetti and garlic bread. They are not sure if they have ever had this before... it will be a new experience for them and a pleasant break from dal/bhat for me!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The paraplegic girls are still cold as we all are here. It just feels impossible to get and stay warm in spite of layers of blankets and triple layers of socks!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Digri is still very sick and feels she cannot knit or crochet anymore. She is very thin and feels she is slowly dying. The AB and treatment did little to help her feel better and we are trying another AB but she is resistant to so many from frequent and often continuous AB use. The young "green" Dr still has yet to come examine her! Please pray for her. She has been so close to death so many times but by the grace of God, keeps somehow hanging on!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well I think that covers the picture for now.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I will keep you posted! Could you keep us all in your prayers?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dawn Didi</span><br></div></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNNKHfgS-x2t2qM4PIzAz2VJ6mYX39QnGFFqwQKdlKdSbvgAuwTjjKzhbvO1z6OE7FAGNeAqs0fCUa3N9epUAapr7Lx9QiJ_sS5Fz0NkdGJF3KRxebIVlNI9Pu8NVT0Q2COnxkiz4CSCY/s640/blogger-image-1408958750.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNNKHfgS-x2t2qM4PIzAz2VJ6mYX39QnGFFqwQKdlKdSbvgAuwTjjKzhbvO1z6OE7FAGNeAqs0fCUa3N9epUAapr7Lx9QiJ_sS5Fz0NkdGJF3KRxebIVlNI9Pu8NVT0Q2COnxkiz4CSCY/s640/blogger-image-1408958750.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmr2QFY-FgOYu2c2GXaeNjCkVEzUCAu2UTHhs4H6clwdhx1YfW6xy563GM55nU7cf4HX3PoNZvgigLFeg3QddqZc57QM_aa1DLYgIT7qbKvV4wmDKH5SXplRIN1pjrzXlS1_oZH3rmaQ0/s640/blogger-image--1843592557.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmr2QFY-FgOYu2c2GXaeNjCkVEzUCAu2UTHhs4H6clwdhx1YfW6xy563GM55nU7cf4HX3PoNZvgigLFeg3QddqZc57QM_aa1DLYgIT7qbKvV4wmDKH5SXplRIN1pjrzXlS1_oZH3rmaQ0/s640/blogger-image--1843592557.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></span></div>Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-91369215708526030612014-02-03T17:24:00.001-08:002014-02-03T17:24:19.253-08:00Flying through the rails on this trip:/<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">So grateful to finally have internet! I have been here since Wednesday PM but couldn't get the internet to function! The World Link office was closed for three days and yesterday I was busy keeping the YWAM volunteers busy on 5 different tasks so didn't make it to the office before they closed. ... funny - went and paid up the bill for 2 months in advance and lo and behold the internet suddenly works!</span></div></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The bus trip from Kathmandu was brutal. The last 4 hours of it was in pea soup fog so thick you literally could not see 2 meters in front of the bus. I suspect the driver switched with the conductor guy about that time so he could snooze, cause the driving suddenly became erratic and it felt like we were speeding around the corners. Fortunately these were smaller hills, not the actual "mountains". I tried to doze myself, after about an hour of white-knuckling it and just about succeeded when the driver slammed on the brakes and I went flying through the rails. I had had my legs extended on the rail as my seat was just inside the door above the stairs up into the bus. The impact lurched everyone forward and there are no seatbelts on these buses! So I found myself hanging with one arm on the top rail and the rest of my body suspended over the steps. I surely was wide awake now! No real harm but the wrenched muscles when my right arm flew up to catch the rest of me!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I was awake the rest of the trip so yah, <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">3 AM</a> till we arrived in Dhangadi<a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">at 8:30 AM on Tuesday</a>. We spent a full 32 hours recovering at Balwa's house there before we got a private vehicle to bring us the rest of the 4 -5 hours up the hill on Wednesday. Santos this driver calls me "mom"</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was great to have a traveling companion this trip! Pratiksha, (Shibi's daughter, aged 22) finished her exams in K-du Monday morning so I waited for her so we could travel home together. She has 10 days off and was returning to Dumada, her village, to see her family. This is the same village I grew up in about 6 KM from here. I have known her family well for 46 years and call them my Nepali family All these kids call me "Mom" as well!.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I went to Dumada today! Joined the YWAM team on their village excursion and we did some prayer walking and I did a lot of reminiscing and greeting old friends in the village! We had lunch at Bhuwan"s ( leader of YWAM ) house as his mom made a special feast for us all! Yum. I am praying there will be no negative repercussions to my intestinal tract!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I have had a chance to assess the "sitchyation" at the new paraplegic house and evaluate all the problems over there. Yes it is very cold in that building cause the sun doesn't hit the building but for 1 hour this time of year. The ceilings do drip continuously with "rain" which is definitely condensation from the warm air in the room hitting the cold cement ceilings. The squeegee I brought from K-du quickly relocates the water but of course is only a temporary solution. Yesterday amongst other helpful acts of kindness, the YWAM team boys helped me stuff cotton around the windows to fill in the 1/4 - 1/2 inch gaps between windows and walls ( no trim has been applied inside or outside so cold air just poured in through these big gaps). They then used up my precious roll of duct tape and the weather stripping I just brought to seal up on the insides and a tube of "bath and tile sealer" I had in my tool trunk to seal the outsides so that should improve things a little.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We are also suggesting the girls keep the windows open about 3 inches in the day time when the air is warm and their doors open to get warmer air in the room to dry them out a little but close them promptly when the sun goes down and the air gets chilly. This makes little sense to them but they have done it now for a few days and it is helping! </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK7ku7VYlNGW0DruQu2xs_foIvaGJjc3YfknJ6m3yGfzTxqbh_-ydVNxugcceNJ2Q5r1HwUQyDkZLlQqOVb0nuE1v9yiVhqwTMfLfZyCUp21H5mSzQ8NtPIWUzQWLu7yC0yY-f1lVlfjY/s640/blogger-image--1053037972.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK7ku7VYlNGW0DruQu2xs_foIvaGJjc3YfknJ6m3yGfzTxqbh_-ydVNxugcceNJ2Q5r1HwUQyDkZLlQqOVb0nuE1v9yiVhqwTMfLfZyCUp21H5mSzQ8NtPIWUzQWLu7yC0yY-f1lVlfjY/s640/blogger-image--1053037972.jpg"></a></div></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A consensus of everyone from general contractors to the person on the street is: A) this is the worst it will ever be. B) this happens in every new building the first year and will likely be minimal if any issue next year after the cement has set up properly. C) this is not water coming through the cement roof... it is condensation. D) the weather is already warming up E) the single most effective thing we can do to remediate this is to build the next level of the building.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sooooooo that is the plan. We will build the educational center... at least the pillars and the next roof! 4 pillars and the back retaining wall are already in place. We need 8 more pillars and at least the nexk roof. We can then fill in with brick walls as we have the funds. We have $ 5000.00 that should cover the pillars and ceiling but will need to collect for the brick walls.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many of you have written to ask how you can help so I have prayed and want to share the thought I had in response. I call it the "power of 10"</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I appreciate that many of you feel you don't have much to contribute financially... and having been broke myself most of this last year I can relate. But if everyone that gets this email could send in just $10 in this next month - we could have this educational center done in the next 8 weeks I am here. And if each of you could talk to others about this need till each of you can find one other person who could do the same -and send in $10 then we can complete the interior and furnish it as well and get it functional! now if you can convince 10 others instead of just 1, think how we could exponentially impact the potential here. Who do you know that you could share this need with?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We envision this as an educational center where literacy, skill, computer and spiritual training could take place and we would have a small library as well as a small boutique where these women could sell their fine products locally.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So could you pass on a Starbucks coffee just twice this week and make a difference in this community with those same resources? I know some of you will want to give more and we certainly won't object! But by us all pulling together with just "10" we will make a huge difference in the lives of hundreds who will use this place to learn and grow. Perhaps you know of a philanthropist or foundation who would assist us in this? Please share with them and clue me in if you know who we could approach to help us improve thousands of lives through this center. We know that every impoverished woman we reach in this learning center will exponentially impact 4-5 lives in her home if not in her own community! If you give a man a fish you feed him for a day. If you teach an man to fish you feed him for a lifetime. If you teach a woman how to fish she will feed her whole family and community for a lifetime and teach that man how to clean his fish!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Will close for now and give you more updates later on our other ministries. Tomorrow I go to talk with the CDO ( chief district officer) to explore what I can do to continue the prison ministry. There are 40 very cold prisoners and I have socks and mittens for them all but am told this CDO ( new since I was last here) is very negative about Christians and has created resistance about allowing ones from the chu-urch in of late to visit. I need the favor of man to proceed. It is a spiritual battle we fight... not against flesh and blood but against principalities...Pray for me please.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks for standing in the gap with me.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We need your prayers !</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oh and please pray for Digri, One of the 2 paraplegics... </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQF5hRe4X23BEroUXl6xkzzPlzh7TqgYN1S8gY5snyLOzSTuVS8wgUxAFcm6avYXVuupB7DyUG3DehCNq-iYarFUfDssb21uzKwmTm0ECLgQV2uS3t8kiPQH5d9kS7FQd4rydkDqOvhpE/s640/blogger-image--1561193164.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQF5hRe4X23BEroUXl6xkzzPlzh7TqgYN1S8gY5snyLOzSTuVS8wgUxAFcm6avYXVuupB7DyUG3DehCNq-iYarFUfDssb21uzKwmTm0ECLgQV2uS3t8kiPQH5d9kS7FQd4rydkDqOvhpE/s640/blogger-image--1561193164.jpg"></a></div></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">she is running a fever and seems to have another UTI. She gets so very sick with these. We started her on antibiotics yesterday... she needs the Lord's touch of healing! So does a 6 month old baby here in my landlord's home with fever and vomiting for 3 days. The hospital is empty... only a few patients and no supplies. Is there even a doctor? When I was there a few days ago he was due to arrive but hadn't yet!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks for prayerfully considering your part in this educational center for HIs glory!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All for now!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Keeping faith!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dawn Didi</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Donations may be sent to:</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dare to Care</span></div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">345 N Alfred St.</font></a></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8">Elgin Ill</a>., 60123</span></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.daretocareinc.com/">www.daretocareinc.com</a> has a paypal link for cc use</span></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj7GQ5WdpFmM9V_kh2xiu7SHH_GHrSBkI2ZsOMYywx7FrX42cgma5w9YYDnkispKaiRFXmkeYqbtR_6_qfjt0Jd5rilSdyIbt8sh0uQq0MsV8-LhRyv7EQiTWNCycX5-FrRwjL1Osa7MY/s640/blogger-image-1899770751.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj7GQ5WdpFmM9V_kh2xiu7SHH_GHrSBkI2ZsOMYywx7FrX42cgma5w9YYDnkispKaiRFXmkeYqbtR_6_qfjt0Jd5rilSdyIbt8sh0uQq0MsV8-LhRyv7EQiTWNCycX5-FrRwjL1Osa7MY/s640/blogger-image-1899770751.jpg"></a></div>One of our young ladies learning to knit</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglOnwV7xAp6m6LxBUoyG8jzQd7R7CKxcQxo0-K3aIqgwKutxE6sbuVDSdRIiShWMQsvB61KnT0qrEE963KKJMDTMmfJAbf_XmDgPxKyWPfWLnKVPKI1RAj2_ajk9paXxTfuUw9gbT4YrQ/s640/blogger-image-186368179.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglOnwV7xAp6m6LxBUoyG8jzQd7R7CKxcQxo0-K3aIqgwKutxE6sbuVDSdRIiShWMQsvB61KnT0qrEE963KKJMDTMmfJAbf_XmDgPxKyWPfWLnKVPKI1RAj2_ajk9paXxTfuUw9gbT4YrQ/s640/blogger-image-186368179.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A small group of our ladies learning knitting</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY-nwKFzPzPmv0T5rsm49_SjMjdaQ4UNdAt5uWZmJeqzZ83Cg068Uz5B2iyftgZ25IIoiBkQvZDQDtl35gsQeZR-bvkl7vQ1wWkWghrXSy4rGCjGj-zq2cFrNBK00B4dmNj_xQK70Vxa0/s640/blogger-image--1722119267.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY-nwKFzPzPmv0T5rsm49_SjMjdaQ4UNdAt5uWZmJeqzZ83Cg068Uz5B2iyftgZ25IIoiBkQvZDQDtl35gsQeZR-bvkl7vQ1wWkWghrXSy4rGCjGj-zq2cFrNBK00B4dmNj_xQK70Vxa0/s640/blogger-image--1722119267.jpg"></a></div>More ladies learning to produce product for a source of income to support their families</div><br></div></span></font></div>Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-62150565642168584362014-01-26T04:43:00.001-08:002014-01-26T04:52:57.492-08:00Safe in Kathmandu<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">DHi Everyone!</span></div></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I arrived in Kathmandu last Saturday although several hours late due to snow in Korea.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The usual challenges have been an adjustment... electricity only 3 -4 hours a day ( affects my internet access considerably!) and we have had the pump go out here at the house I'm staying at so no ( ok very limited) water! But life goes on!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> It has been an eventful week shopping for yarn, cheese, groceries to haul out west and researching various solar options for the Para girls home.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I also visited the Brick factory women's project and left them a large order of jewelry to make while I'm out west and I'll pick it up on my return.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Friday I hung out at the orphanage for a few hours and blessed them with socks and games and a good donation so they can buy shoes for all the now 25 kids! They all look healthy and robust! Full of smiles!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I returned Saturday and went to church with them and then followed them back home to the orphange to share Dal/ Bhat ( lunch) with them. It was great to get to know some of the kids on a more personal level! 7 of the girls are all in grade 9! Please pray for them all in these teenage years! Two new little girls ages 3.5 and 5 came a few weeks ago. They seem happy and adjusted already but pray for them!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Internet has been the pits with the electrical shortages so will close this here and hope I can press send before it cuts out on me again!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Plan is to take the AC deluxe night bus with Pratiksha on Monday. She has exams today and tomorrow and then 10 days off so we will travel the 30 hour bus ride together with a stop for one night( after about 22 hours of it) in Dhangadi with my friends to catch up on their lives. It will break up the trip!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pray for safe travel... this is the grueling part but necessary if I am ever going to get there!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I miss my kids already but am enjoying Nepal again so much. The weather is sunny and the Himalayas are gorgeous this time of year!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So glad you have my back with your prayers!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dawn Didi<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijLWVvcz5Q_A5lFIyWNq0fc9woWgq58n9MlqZCGv5OrdvOlzLGh4q7Qa2-KvJA9lPZQzNW4bv8LJhT1toIsJeHvwxrDWFiIYuX37qRQropd0JLRmMeq3UvSfgS7fXS-CNIpzQjXZYSFaI/s640/blogger-image-412047857.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijLWVvcz5Q_A5lFIyWNq0fc9woWgq58n9MlqZCGv5OrdvOlzLGh4q7Qa2-KvJA9lPZQzNW4bv8LJhT1toIsJeHvwxrDWFiIYuX37qRQropd0JLRmMeq3UvSfgS7fXS-CNIpzQjXZYSFaI/s640/blogger-image-412047857.jpg"></a></div></span></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl2c6UVyKX60ytzfOaQDfH7kPivldPkyHQIbdEJni6chBhlRcE7QHXMNGHRMri3T_5YaYCAWjSQWZW0upt3kCVtbDYFGyPU5ASYZGZndVhAknd3Wt0aCYbqqfYL9zPfojuSc-1cns6W-U/s640/blogger-image-246854395.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl2c6UVyKX60ytzfOaQDfH7kPivldPkyHQIbdEJni6chBhlRcE7QHXMNGHRMri3T_5YaYCAWjSQWZW0upt3kCVtbDYFGyPU5ASYZGZndVhAknd3Wt0aCYbqqfYL9zPfojuSc-1cns6W-U/s640/blogger-image-246854395.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl2c6UVyKX60ytzfOaQDfH7kPivldPkyHQIbdEJni6chBhlRcE7QHXMNGHRMri3T_5YaYCAWjSQWZW0upt3kCVtbDYFGyPU5ASYZGZndVhAknd3Wt0aCYbqqfYL9zPfojuSc-1cns6W-U/s640/blogger-image-246854395.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbVlC6tw6xGBXHOYqnOzRx1TdQJIQ8onEoiDRMracKINUWUGAzEmbP2FnP-JkDJoGhmwjG_cAvLx7WSe_JMSv2ddnpkVwmcvo-li4YKtgz98wT6PkZvY8QId_obEKR-SUsg4a2SAuDYso/s640/blogger-image-674092249.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbVlC6tw6xGBXHOYqnOzRx1TdQJIQ8onEoiDRMracKINUWUGAzEmbP2FnP-JkDJoGhmwjG_cAvLx7WSe_JMSv2ddnpkVwmcvo-li4YKtgz98wT6PkZvY8QId_obEKR-SUsg4a2SAuDYso/s640/blogger-image-674092249.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbVlC6tw6xGBXHOYqnOzRx1TdQJIQ8onEoiDRMracKINUWUGAzEmbP2FnP-JkDJoGhmwjG_cAvLx7WSe_JMSv2ddnpkVwmcvo-li4YKtgz98wT6PkZvY8QId_obEKR-SUsg4a2SAuDYso/s640/blogger-image-674092249.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVzceTM_HV83UL9ks5Ix599PhQA4LOAJ7wVAuuaThscaG60-E4GdIZTRgd-Bm9dg3Q8eNiiMtDf_VbG3vFIIusWGfS4Iqeq-e9dlnBpKdXSA0a5MKfcar8umMwIE3E1FzdeM49iil-N0Y/s640/blogger-image-932632518.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVzceTM_HV83UL9ks5Ix599PhQA4LOAJ7wVAuuaThscaG60-E4GdIZTRgd-Bm9dg3Q8eNiiMtDf_VbG3vFIIusWGfS4Iqeq-e9dlnBpKdXSA0a5MKfcar8umMwIE3E1FzdeM49iil-N0Y/s640/blogger-image-932632518.jpg"></a></div></div></div>Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-15897309503005473652014-01-19T06:46:00.001-08:002014-01-19T06:46:50.263-08:00Ready To ROCK AND ROLL! 😄<blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div dir="ltr"><div>I think I am finally packed and ready to go!</div><div>I'm going to try to head to bed and sleep now... for just a few hours and then get up and care for a few housekeeping needs that have piled up since I worked 4 days this week and dealt with a flooded basement on top of all my shopping and packing chores. Funny those dishes just didn't do themselves! That, and a little laundry that shouldn't sit here dirty for 10 and a half weeks!</div><div>Thanks to those of you that donated socks and stretchy gloves for the prison ministry inmates and our orphans! It will really bless them!</div><div>I'll keep you posted on my adventures! It is always Crazy Wonderful doing life with God this way!</div><div>Anne will be here at 12:30 to take me to the airport so will keep this one short!</div><div>Longer ones will follow to be sure!</div><div>Blessings!</div><div>Dawn Didi</div></div></blockquote>Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-58444268351073951372013-11-20T08:14:00.001-08:002013-11-20T08:14:32.400-08:00Save the date!!<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This next weekend is our Jolly Nepali Bazaar!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Where else can your Christmas dollar buy sooooo much and bless sooooooooooo many!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You think you are buying a gift for Aunt Susie but in reality, it touches the lives of needy precious people deep in the Himalayas of Nepal to change their poverty into self sufficiency and enrich their lives and that of their impoverished children as well. Dare to Care offers" not just a hand out, but a hand up" to countless needy women and their families in Nepal.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thank you for coming and bringing your friends! I hope to see you there if you are in the Seattle area!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> If you are not... Please lift us up in prayer!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Please know you can SPONSOR an orphan ($30/ month), buy a whole month of radio programing( $200/ month), or adopt a widow and her family ( food for a month for 5, plus warm clothes for the kids and shoes on their feet and a hen to lay eggs... all for $100 one time donation)This can be in your loved ones name with a card for you to deliver to explain your gift on their behalf! Gift certificates for our products are also available. Microloan sponsorships are also available. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks to all of you who have supported us in prayer, encouragement and financially in the past! You are awesome and we Praise God for you every day! You have blessed us and this ministry in countless ways! At this Thanksgiving Season please know our hearts are busting with gratitude for His moving in your lives as well and are thrilled you have chosen to partner with us in what God is doing in Nepal.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">May He continue to bless you and yours!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dawn... for all of us both here in the US and in Nepal at Dare to Care!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">PS Please put up on or more of these fliers in your place of business or life lived out ( church, gym, grocery, library!) Or forward it to 10 people right now ... though nothing will happen if you don't... except you might miss out on how God intended to bless you as He moves His kingdom forward! His blessings are amazing!<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></span></div></div><div x-apple-mail="wrapper"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><object type="apple/mailattachment" id="9326F635-1305-4927-A497-8CEEED55354E" filename="color Nepali flyer 11:13.pdf" filesize="343673" hasviewer="1" isdownloaded="1" isprinting="0" width="160" height="120" displaystyle="0" style="padding: 10px 23px 10px 0px;"></object></span></div><div x-apple-mail="wrapper"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><object type="apple/mailattachment" id="A3437E70-575C-4ECD-A56F-E8F6A847B142" filename="B&W Nepal Flyer 11:13.pdf" filesize="169240" hasviewer="1" isdownloaded="1" isprinting="0" width="160" height="120" displaystyle="0" style="padding: 10px 23px 10px 0px;"></object></span></div>Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-15124566399099955222013-07-24T12:13:00.003-07:002013-07-24T12:13:39.615-07:00Nepali sure is Bazaar!So here's the story. We are trying to get the paraplegic building completed. All that needs to be done is the septic system. Once completed we can then move the first phase of handicapped women into the house. We are have a Nepali Bazaar sale beginning tomorrow , Thursday the 25th through Saturday the 27th from 9am till 6pm. <br />
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Would you please stop by and see all the fantastic things I brought back. Maybe you will decide to make a donation to help us meet our goal and take something home for a kingdom cause. Check out the flyer attached for more details. Hope to see you at the bazaar.<br />
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<br />Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-10827110205492562772013-07-03T18:40:00.002-07:002013-07-03T18:40:36.168-07:00Join us at the Music Festival July 19-23If you would like me to come visit your neck of the woods and speak/ share about Dare to Care please let me know.<br />
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If you have any leads of foundations that might respond to our requests for grants to enable us to complete the educational level and the guesthouse level of our facility or even this level for the disabled (LOL) please let me know. We have a couple people who have offered to write the grants for us if we can find appropriate foundations interested in our causes.<br /><br />
I will be at the Photosynthesis Music Festival in Neah Bay, WA for July 19-23! I just confirmed a complementary 10x10 space. Pray I can be salt and light to the thousands visiting that weekend and for some manpower help that weekend and of course, HIGH DONATIONS!. This is an event put on by my son and his business partners which has made me aspecially excited.<br />
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Any more fundraiser ideas and muscle is always appreciated!<br />
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Happy 4th of July. Be safe and blessed.<br />
Dawn<br />
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<br />Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-78735002233668110892013-07-03T16:40:00.000-07:002013-07-03T16:40:07.087-07:00I Limbo in Limbo...I am currently in the Black Hills of South Dakota soaking up sunshine and love from all my family.<br />We just had a big Seaman Family Reunion over the weekend at "No Name City" campground in Sturgis. It was great to see relatives galore and get tons of hugs from everyone!<br />
<br />A highlight was an authentic Kansas City BBQ cooked up by my cousin's oldest son and his wife who cook competitively- like on these food network shows! I am not regularly a big meat eater but we all chowed down on the best ribs, tips and burnt ends "Gold" ever, and I consumed half a bottle of protease digestive enzymes so as not to pay the piper in consequences! Yummy.<br />
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Since I have some spare time (yes, I did get let go at Hospice for needing to extend my return from Nepal!:()I have decided to stay on an extra 10 days with my folks and sister Di
and family here from Indonesia. It is a rare treat to have time with
them - However, in many other respects I am in limbo or am doing the limbo!<br />
<br />Ok, that's all for this post ... please let me know how I can pray for you!<br />In Limbo,<br />Dawn Didi<br />
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<br />Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-24427241616559357202013-07-03T14:28:00.001-07:002013-07-03T14:28:00.617-07:00Update and Pray Request:)<div dir="ltr">
As last you heard I had to leave Nepal with the building project unfinished, but close to being completed. I have just heard that nothing has been done on the septic since I left because
the monsoons have caused excessive flooding and the hole has filled up
with water, prohibiting any further progress. We did get an
estimate from the contractor on what it would take to line the tank with
rock 18 inches thick to be capable of supporting a cement slab on top
so a vehicle could be parked on top... the figure is twice what we had
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Bottom line we need $3000 to pay for the lining and the
expenses we incurred on dozing and excavating the septic twice! </div>
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Also the
windows and door people came but installed them backwards and my helper had
gone to Kathmandu when they came so we will now have to get them back up
from Dhangadi and have them re-do them! You can see why I wanted to
stay and see things through to the end!... soooo frustrating
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I was praying things were progressing and the girls could be
transferred into their new home even this week but that is clearly not
happening now.. Please keep praying with me for completion and a smooth
transfer and transition.</div>
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We could really use your prayers for the following; </div>
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Pray that with the monsoon rains in full force the banks of the
mountain we have built on, will hold and remain in place and that the
retaining wall will do its intended function and retain the dirt and
keep it in place! Pray the tin shack perched above our site will
continue to hang on to the side of the mountain and there will be no
injuries, damages or casualties as the family therein refuses to move to
safer ground!</div>
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Pray the septic will be able to be completed soon. We dozed and dug
the hole only to have the monsoons break that night and wash most of
the mud back in the hole. So we get to do it all again! The day I left
the dozer was due to come again and this time with a tipper ( dump truck
) to haul it all away! That is all on hold with the hole filled with
water! So having to repeat all this literally sunk us another $3000 in
the hole! I am trying to raise that now so I can wire the funds to them
the end of July! PTL $450 came in this weekend for this urgent need!</div>
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Pray too for the 48 prisoners at the jail that we were visiting
weekly. There are 43 men and 5 women and one 5 yr old boy born in the
prison. 5 of these (2 women and 3 men) have accepted Jesus and need
fellowship and teaching and encouragement. The others still need Jesus
and the healing and forgiveness only He can give. </div>
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Pray the 6 -8 folks
that went with me each week will maintain their connections with the"
jailbirds" and keep visiting and encouraging. I personally never ever
thought I would be involved in Prison ministries but God has surprised
me with how much I enjoyed meeting these folks and teaching them to
crochet and singing local songs to them and even dancing Nepali dances
with them. They weekly confirmed that our visits were the highlights of
their week and how they felt our love and kindness. The cookies possibly
accounted for some of this sentiment!</div>
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Pray for the radio ministry geared to illiterate and lonely women
telling them they matter to God and HE loves them!, will continue. We
are behind in our payments to the FM station as all our resources had to
be directed for the paraplegic facility. This takes $200 per month and
we are 7 months behind. We still have 3 slots per week of 15 min each to
broadcast. </div>
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Pray especially for those creating the radio programming and who are
responsible for the technical aspects of this vital ministry and that
the LOVE will shine through.</div>
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Pray for 2 really bright students to be able to further their
studies. One girl, would love to come to the US or anywhere she could
attend Chiropractic School as there is nothing in Nepal for this and it
interests her. If not, she is considering Physical Therapy for a major,
and would have to go to India for the training. She is one sharp cookie
and would attend medical school if she thought she could afford it.</div>
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The other is Chet, who dreams about becoming a Chemical Engineer.
He just passed his big SLC exams and placed 2nd in the district. He is
incredibly smart and speaks great English and is very interested in
studying science.. I am praying for him to get into Sunshine Bible
Academy( or similar) for his 11th and 12th grades and for scholarships
to allow him to progress as his family is very poor.</div>
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These are a few of the needs I observed most recently and covet your prayers for.</div>
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More program updates;</div>
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The
orphanage in Kathmandu with 19 kids in it was going great when Diane
and I visited. The kids loved the games we brought them and were
implementing the baseball and mitt a gracious donor sent and within
minutes of them receiving permission to play with it, all 19 were
outside playing and we heard a "CRRACK" in the window! Fortunately the
windows have exterior iron bars so we were not required to confiscate
it!</div>
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The Brick making women made some fine jewelry to send back with me.
They are doing reasonably well but 2 widows decided they just cannot
make it in the big city so have returned to their hill villages to farm
their fields. Unfortunately this may mean their kids will not be
attending schools and instead helping mom in the fields and minding the
goats- a 14 hour / day job!. </div>
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The Bakery was going great up till my departure, though they are concerned that with all the foreigners gone, their
business will plummet. I was able to remind them that God has built this
business and HE will see to it that they are blessed if they just focus
on Him. He will bring new clientele and keep them in HIS hand. I reminded them of the verse that "the Righteous will never go
hungry!" In fact how often have they been instrumental in feeding the
hungry because they were sensitive to real needs and able to share
generously from their hearts and surplus. This couple are some of the
most generous and loving people you could ever hope to meet! Pray for
them as they serve others through their bakery. </div>
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Well that is the update for now and I promise to keep you informed of any new developments.</div>
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Dawn Didi</div>
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Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-67236388200282229772013-06-18T12:47:00.001-07:002013-06-18T12:47:48.746-07:00Last leg of my journey<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hi everyone!</span></div><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Have had no internet for the last 6 days both in Dadeldhura or in Kathmandu! But no surprise for Nepal... we did have water though... and lots of it... both in the pipes / drum for bathing and washing... and a little too much in the atmosphere!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Thursday after 3 days of hunting, a dozer miraculously, came right down our street and Megh was able to convince the driver we just needed a" half hour of his time"! He called the boss and got permission and 10 minutes later it was digging out our septic tank. 2 meters deep x 12x 10. An hour later it was done!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our mistake was we didn't have a "Tipper" ( dump truck ) to haul the dirt away so the dozer plunked it beside the house and kinda pushed it back and we hoped to find a way to deal with that later, ie next day and allow the workmen to get started building the 18inch walls inside it to support the tank. In theory it works... it reality it doesn't because one must factor monsoon surprize storms into the equation! It POURED rain all night and washed much of the dirt right back down into the hole and even caused the 1 meter margin of safety near the house to cave in, in one place. In the process the neighbors water drums got covered up as well so I spent considerable time assuring the neighbor we would make it right and buying them a new drum to tide them over. Well by now the dirt is no longer dirt, but heavy mud and impossible to move by hand, so we again were trying to track down a dozer, this time<strong>with </strong>a tipper to haul it away. Alas paying for the job twice! The day I left ( Saturday) both were due to arrive together! Pray it really happened and that the workmen can finish lining the hole safely!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The doors and windows slated to arrive Thursday, still had not arrived Sunday when I called.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sabi was asking for my painting supplies Sunday so that is being done. The walls and ceiling are dry enough to paint at least the first coat.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Phlam Man ( iron man) making the big outside steel door had it made but was tardy in delivery on Thursday so we asked him to please wait till Monday or Tuesday now to install it so he doesn't wreck the new cement floors that just got poured on Friday!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So much still to wrap up but all designated to specific individuals to complete... and it will get done... Nepali style! Eventually!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I put 3 capable women in charge of arranging furniture and supplies, and Thirtha the maintenance man, is doing the electrical and plumbing... has to wait till the cement floors are dry to install the sinks and toilet... he will also manage the disassembly of their iron beds and reassembly of their new water beds complete with their new water heaters!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The good news is I got out of Dadeldhura with minimal rain on Saturday AM though it had rained all night. Tula, the driver I had booked, stood me up and we spent a harried hour trying to find another vehicle to get me to the airport but I got there on time, the flight took off 10 minutes early ( pilot afraid of the weather?) and we got to K-du on time. However Yeti Airlines succeeded in somehow ripping my suitcase to shreds and it took 45 minutes I didn't have, to file a report to discover I needed to bring the suitcase back empty the next day and they would repair it.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The next day was a bhundh... nothing moved, nothing was open till after <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">5 pm</a>! It was my only day to accomplish loose ends. SO I met with Yam ( in charge of the Brick women ministry that make our jewelry, <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">at 6 PM</a> in Jhawelakhel and the DDL college kids for dinner <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">at 6:30</a>.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> I was able to sneak in the back door of the cargo company during the day,and get all my excess baggage shipped in spite of the bhundh as they are across the street from my hotel and I had inside connections!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I also got the hotel to send out my torn suitcase for repairs and they only charged me about 3$ ... much less than trips to the airport and back... in the rain!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Most of my 2 days in Kathmandu it poured rain. A phone call back to Dadeldhura confirmed it had poured rain solid for 2 days there as well so most believe the monsoons are officially here... and in answer to my prayers God allowed me to exit without event and delayed the deluge to allow my passage.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The turbulence and the pathway of our Korean air jet last evening was amazing to observe, as the pilot clearly was trying to avoid massive cloud banks taking our route far south( all the way to Dacca) of the projected trajectory on the map! The Monsoons really are here.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Standing on HIS promises in faith... re: believing for things yet unseen... yes but with a tear in my eye! He will complete HIS project and yes, bless others as they minister to these girls too.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> I am in Seoul, Korea... I board the last leg of these flights in about 2 hours! It will be good to get home to my own bed and the next day dig / putter in my own garden.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks for standing with me in faith!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dawn Didi</span></div></div>Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-37679564694019560452013-06-11T19:09:00.002-07:002013-06-11T19:09:49.494-07:00Down but not out...<div dir="ltr">
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I am discouraged tonight...I learned this PM that
it is not at all probable that I will get my miracle and get to see the
girls properly installed in their new place. </div>
<div>
The main
contractor had to take a day off for personal reasons 2 days ago and
while he sent his crew, they are just not fast and able to push through
like the boss. Then this morning it POURED rain and I mean POURED! a
virtual torrential deluge... so the crew did not show up till the sun
came out at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1799284464" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">2 pm</span></span>. The floors were starting to be poured and cement spread at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1799284465" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">5 pm</span></span>
when I last checked in and the boss tells me it will be 5 days before
anyone can walk on them and 7 before we can put a heavy iron bed on it
and fill it with 500 liters of water!</div>
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Also we have not been able to secure a dozer again to dig out the
septic... we may have to hand dig it and then it will be 5 days to line
it and 2 days of drying time. so realistically we are looking at 10 more
days till we can make it habitable! </div>
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Window guy can't get here till <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1799284466" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Friday</span></span>
either... and Yo Nepal Ho... he could also get held up with his
schedule...so bottom line... I am the one to plant and water but not the
one to harvest... someone else is meant for that. </div>
<div>
Pastor Prem and my landlord, Tara Datt ( also an elder in the
chur-ch), have offered to take charge of the transfer and Sabi, the
widow who donated the land, is highly motivated to see the project
through to completion ASAP. She was ready to paint today and I held her
back explaining we would just be in the way of the workman trying to get
the floors laid. I have nicknamed her "dozer"!</div>
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. Jamani is my house keeper and has offered to get all the bedding
and supplies for them. from my house, down to the new house. We will go
through everything <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1799284467" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">tomorrow</span></span> and role play where to put what and how to arrange it all. </div>
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Thirtha is the maintenance man from the last hospital and built
their beds in the first place and has filled their waterbeds in the
past. He is our contracted plumber and electrician and I could not have a
better man on the case if I tried! He has a sharp mind and can figure
things out better than most and is very handy at all kinds of things. He
will disassemble and reassemble their iron waterbeds, install the new
waterbed heaters and make sure the new bunks get installed and secured
to the existing iron structures! </div>
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As a team they are all capable... things might just not have the
designer touch I was planning to put on the event and it won't have the
flourish and pomp and celebration I was planning to bring to it. There
are no other foreigners here at present... they all leave <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1799284468" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Thursday</span></span> and I leave <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1799284469" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Saturday</span></span>.</div>
<div>
It will be ok... it will all be just fine!</div>
<div>
So it is a
lesson in trust ... to try to let go of my control once again! I remind
myself He is God and I am not! And I'm not giving up on miracles yet...
just trying to be realistic. I tell everyone who comes here to check
their expectations at the door... it is my turn now. I am determined to
enjoy these last 3 days here! </div>
<div>
Thanks for your prayers and votes of confidence! They all have meant so very much!</div>
<div>
We
now have water! first time in the 10 weeks I have been here in
Dadeldhura, that I didn't have to take a pour bath with a glass of
water- maybe 2 on a good day! Now pray it won't flood out my flight <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1799284470" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Saturday</span></span>! This may be the start of the monsoons! </div>
<div>
Must get some shut eye... the storm kept me awake most of last
night .It sure cleared the air and the view of the snows was spectacular
this evening from my porch!</div>
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Toodles!</div>
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Dawn Didi</div>
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Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-45532703950293031932013-06-06T15:17:00.001-07:002013-06-06T15:17:23.599-07:00Keeping Positive<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Having trouble sleeping tonight...</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> I heard a few hours ago (via email) that I have been fired from my Hospice job back home! Bummer! I am feeling a little shellshocked as I thought I had everything worked out with them. For 3 weeks I have been emailing various managers trying to determine my schedule and trying to communicate the need I had to extend my ticket and have not heard from them except to hear " send your availability to the new manager", 3 emails later I have yet to hear from her but an email tonight informs me ( HR) that I have been terminated!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">God must have bigger and better plans for me. Please pray I will be patient as HE reveals these to me and that I will be able to joyfully continue serving Him regardless!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On the positive note... I am virtually weepy with amazement at how God is coming through for us here in the 11th hour. In the last 72 hours he has moved 2 wonderful donors to very generously cover all the remaining expenses on the first floor of the paraplegic facility and some of our radio ministry needs as well. We praise God for his faithful provision and have full confidence the few remaining needs will be cared for as well ie rent for the apartment we keep here(90$/month) and the salary for the radio technician/programmer. ($100/month) </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">God also brought 3 people to my door today that have exactly the skills we need to finish up the project! One we have been hunting for for 5 days! Another our door and window man... and he came without being called! And the electrician/ plumber who can start tomorrow!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Last week it seemed impossible to finish. Today the contractor said that with this heat, not only could he remove the bamboo poles holding up the new roof 2 days early, but the cement floors and plaster should dry in 5 days vs 9! Guess I'll stop complaining about the unprecedented heat!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So I choose to keep focused on all he positive evidence of a great big God at work on our behalf and keep looking up.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks for looking in the same direction... HE hears our prayers!</span></div><div><br></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHBlhIcaIOkc7v3zanvt_N9Adl1OQbGymUo-5z47j00wzfqu0T0JkJxblcI8sn-3J37MK5God2cGsO9-MQ6asc6mIbeH50vbW6wJ5z2QzjbiTYG5urr2xEfJzmEjtJ4gZL8SD2H9reElI/s640/blogger-image--98037852.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHBlhIcaIOkc7v3zanvt_N9Adl1OQbGymUo-5z47j00wzfqu0T0JkJxblcI8sn-3J37MK5God2cGsO9-MQ6asc6mIbeH50vbW6wJ5z2QzjbiTYG5urr2xEfJzmEjtJ4gZL8SD2H9reElI/s640/blogger-image--98037852.jpg"></a></div><br></div>Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-77065146599303508092013-06-03T17:24:00.001-07:002013-06-03T17:24:29.469-07:002 Weeks To Go>>>><div dir="ltr">
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Hard to believe I have already been here in Nepal 8
weeks! So much has happened and so much still needs to happen before I
can wrap up this project and feel at peace about leaving. But I have 2
weeks left and a God still in the business of doing miracles so will
hang on remembering how often in the past HE has come through for me in
the 11th hour! </div>
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Today the "RCC" walls were completed. These are the exterior walls
of the next level and are retaining walls. They are designed to hold
back the mountain should any further slippage occur with the imminent
onset of the monsoon rains upon us. It really can't prevent the tin
shack above us from falling but it should keep it from falling on the
girls and the existing building if it should tumble! We felt it was
imperative we get this done now before the rains as it is a major
structural concern so have diverted the funds intended for electric,
plumbing, plaster and paint ( and associated labor) to this! </div>
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The cement roof should be dry on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1101704122" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">June 6th</span></span>.
The bamboo posts can then be removed that are currently supporting the
ceiling/ roof and the contractor for the plumbing and electric can swoop
in and lay the appropriate lines. The current contractor can begin
plastering the brick walls with cement. I have asked him to do the doors
and windows first so I can call the window people up from Dhangadi ( 5
hours away) to come measure and get the doors and windows custom made
and on their way. Once the walls are plastered, the cement floors are
poured. It takes 9 days for this to set up.</div>
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You do the math... I have a flight out of Dhangadi to K-du on 6/15!</div>
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This
means that short of an absolute miracle I will not be the one to move
the girls into their new home and get them settled. But I keep telling
myself "it is not about me". Perhaps someone else needs to be blessed to
do the close and reveal! Alycia has volunteered that if she is here and
I leave her a map of the new layout, she will arrange the furniture
and help Thirtha get the girls moved in. I am so grateful for her
willingness and realize what a huge responsibility she would be
undertaking! Pray for her if she should get stuck with all this work!</div>
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While we are waiting for the 6th to arrive our contractor will be
working on 2 projects we forgot to budget for... the septic tank and a
ramp for wheelchair access to the new facility. Please pray for the
extra $3000 needed to cover these additional expenses. A bag of cement
is now $12.50. We need another 142 bags to finish the plaster, floors,
septic and ramp and that is not counting sand, gravel and rock and iron
rods to support it all. What a shame construction costs have doubled
since October when I last got quotes on materials!</div>
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So while I would hate to sound like I'm begging... I'm going to ask
each of you please pray and put whatever energy God might lead you to
lend to this important cause, whether it is a" pass the hat" in your
church or small group or setting out a can at work or a bake sale. If
you know any celebrities that would do a charity concert or have
connections to a philanthropist or a foundation that we could appeal to
for a grant... this would be a great time to let us know if we could
contact them! Thanks for your prayerful consideration and support. And
to the many of you who have already generously given we so appreciate
you and we are trying to be the best possible stewards of every dollar
and dime you have donated for His kingdom glory here!</div>
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On other fronts:</div>
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The 2 hospital staff that were being
held in custody were released last Monday! They were held over 26 days
with no charges and when the supplies were counted that they had
supposedly "stolen" they exactly matched the inventory reports. I don't
understand why these supplies couldn't have been counted earlier... but
Yo Nepal Ho.</div>
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All the staff got paid <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1101704123" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Tuesday</span></span>!
They got their 1 month salary due them ( for the month they were told
not to work) and an additional month bonus. However they did not get
their retirement funds yet. Perhaps later? they may have to each make
trips to HDCS hdqtrs in Kathmandu in the future to get what is owed
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into doing the "handover"on the hospital because the administrative staff refused to come out and
the gov officials are handing over the hospital to. Megh has not
worked at this hospital for over 5 years except in the capacity of
running the local radio station owned by HDCS. This is a huge burden and
undertaking for him to sort out all the chaos and account for all the
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thinks there should just be a few more days of dealing with the
inventory and then the handover should be complete. However rumors
indicate the gov/ political leaders will be demanding $ they think is
still coming in from donors to HDCS they think is rightfully part of the
handover so I'm guessing Megh will not see a good night of sleep for
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Pray for Megh caught in this hornets nest. He is my brother and
friend and is doing an amazing job negotiating with all the Tulla
Manches ( big wigs) and trying to juggle the many other things on his
plate he had going before he was dragged into this hospital mess!</div>
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and Doyl and Prakash both brought their guitars and we did a little
program for them. I took cookies for everyone including the 20 staff (
guards) so those were a big hit. There are now 5 who have believed in
there, 2 women and 3 men. Pray for them to have fellowship with each
other and to boldly share their new faith and to grow in wisdom and
faith. A couple inmates asked 2 of our group for their cell #'s and want
to call re: questions they have about what they have read from
materials we have given so that is encouraging too.</div>
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Last Sunday was National Outreach Day so 3 teams of 5 from our
church went village to village and through the bazaar passing out tracts
and stopping to talk with any who had questions. Pray for every piece
of literature to touch someone's heart with God's love. Today our church
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encouragement to love our neighbors in really practical
ways beyond just handing them a tract. It was my turn to share with the
women's group and I felt led to share about blessings... not just how we
can be blessed by God but how we can be a blessing to others. In that
vein, I felt convicted to make some cookies tomorrow and take them to
the TSF ( tin shack family) whose tin shack balances precariously above
our construction site but the family refuses to move to safety... the
mother yelled at me the first few days I was here and though I try to
say Namaste every time I pass through her walkway, she usually refuses
to return the greeting. I am praying about how I can love her in spite
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Things are pretty quiet at the bakey with most of the Bideshi's (
foreigners) gone. The Restless Team from the UK have hung out as it is
their last week here. They invited me to their Sports day, yesterday, in
the village they have worked in the last 2 months. It was a 1 1/2 hour
walk down to the valley and 2 hour up. It was a really fun day and I was
pleased to have been invited. On my way back,a Dr. named Alec, ran up
behind me on the path, walked with me for a few minutes then ran on. I
caught up with him in the bakery, only to find he beat his best running
time and did in 29 minutes what took me over 2 hours to walk! and part
of that was while walking with and chatting with an old lady! Oh to be
young again! I am over twice his age!</div>
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Well time to turn in... must go to the bank in the morning to see
if a wire transfer has come through and to inquire what the terms would
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Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-58443178012534347672013-05-28T09:26:00.001-07:002013-05-28T09:26:32.462-07:00Stairs are poured, roof setting up nicely<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hello from Nepal, here is the latest update from Dawn;</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The roof is setting up nicely. The contractor is working on building the back pillars for the next story and will start on the back retaining wall in a couple days. He should finish that just in time to take down the Kaat ( bamboo posts) and work on the interior. The stairs were poured 2 days ago so things are progressing and I'm holding onto hope that if we have the funds in hand we can push this through to completion yet before I leave here <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">on the 15th of June</a>!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The jail ministry went well last week! We now have a total of 5 new be-liever-s there! 2 women including the 17 year old girl and 3 men. This week I sang more songs and just had fun with them... their faces lit up when we came! The 3 men were so excited to have fellowship with the 2 men we brought on our team and are hungry for the Word. We did find a small Hindi NT here to give the Indian beli-eve-r!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week I have promised them all cookies! Alec and Sam from the Restless team want to go this week too, just to see what the inside of a jail is like here!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yesterday we did a community outreach taking tracks to many nearby villages. I went to Mallum the one past the bus park and along the ridge and all the way down to the school. We hit 3 villages and then hiked up the back of that hill. definitely the steep way! Nearly killed me! They put me in the first truck when we hit the road at the top and sent me home! The rest of the 5 on my team took their time walking back and passing out tracks and talkking / sharing wityh anyone who would listen!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It has been blistering hot here this week... most unusual for Dadeldhura! Coupled with the water shortage it has been trying! Today we had 2 hours or rain and I actually had to find my sweater tonight! Sweet relief!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well all for now!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dawn</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div></div>Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-52471929291102797752013-05-22T12:47:00.001-07:002013-05-22T12:47:54.074-07:00The ROOF has been RAISED!!!!!!!!<div dir="ltr">
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Hello All, It feels great to be back in Dadeldhura agasin after
10 or more days on the road. Some of you didn't even know we left as
our internet was spotty here with the power being out so much. I thought
we could get it in Kathmandu but they had password issues there when we
arrived. We left a day later and went to Pokhara ( Kaski) but the hotel
there also couldn't get their internet access so we used a "cyber cafe"
briefly twice to check our emails and then we were back again in Kdu to
discover a huge fire a block over knocked our power out for 2 days
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think I wrote that Diane got word her mom had broken her back in 8
places! She felt she should go back early to be with her and I fully
endorsed that. So we got a private vehicle and made the trip down the
mountain to the dhangadi airport. It rained and poured off and on and
depending on who you talked to they said it was the start of the
monsoons. Whatever... the wind howled and banged windows all over the
airport. then there was this virtual explosion that sounded like a gun
went off two feet from our heads... a clap of thunder shorted out a
florescent light and that was the resulting sound. My heart had just
returned to normal sinus rythym when another explosion occurred right
above our heads. This time it was a short in the wiring of the fan and
as the 10 or so security gards stood around contemplating the fried
wires and resulting smoke I nearly went into sinus arrest! They decided
someone really should go turn off the electricity to the room and
subsequently dispatched a peon to do so as we caught our breath and
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Our flight was actually on time but I was concerned about us taking
off in such high winds but we managed just fine and got to K-du with
only minimal turbulence but a few bruises. Huh? you ask? oh it was the 4
year old girl on the lap of her obese Nepali mom that kicked me
continuouisly for the first half of the ride till she conked out and
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we got up bright and early and made our way across town to the Korean
Air office to see what could be done to change our tickets. Diane asked
for the next flight out and was told there were only 2 flights per week
in May and the next 2 were full. The first seat available was for the
following Monday, May 20th so we booked that for her, next I asked for
my ticket to be pushed back a fedw weeks and was told for the month of
June there is only one flight out per week! And as the only seat
available was for <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_567312457" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">June 17th</span></span> that is now my new departure date... which means I'll be back at SeaTac on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_567312458" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">June 18th at noon</span></span>
instead of the 4th. The reason is we have had so many delays and
challenges that there is no way the building will be ready for the
paraplegic girls by my original departure date. I'm hoping by extending
it for the 2 weeks we might yet get them in. In case it is not possible I
am organizing everything to require minimal stress and challenges to
those who might have to do the transfer on my behalf after I leave. I
sooooo want the project to be complete so I can leave with them tucked
in and peace of mind that all will be in order for the monsoon season!</div>
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Well since Diane had another week to kill in nepal, we decided to
go to Pokhara for 4 nights and 5 days of R&R. Besides it was
blistering hot in k-du and stuffy and polluted and crowded blah blah
blah. We thought being by the lake would at least be scenic if not
cooler. So that same day we juggled our luggage and left most of it at
the Utse Hotel and packed just what we needed for 4 days and off we went
to find a "micro" ( a minivan) that leaves every half hour for
Pokhara. We thought we got good seats but the van stopped frequently and
this necessitated every body either climbing over Diane or making her
get out of the vehicle to let them out! With her knees ( recent surgery)
this was a huge inconvenience for her. I was stuck a row behind her
with the same people crawling over me and an old man hanging onto my
seat and leaning on me. With the heat and no AC it was not a comfortable
thing to be stopped at any location and only marginally tolerable when
the vehicle was moving. Somehow saying "YO NEPAL HO" didn't make the
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The scenery was amazing though... the road was the same we had
taken on the AC bus last month for the first 4 hours then winds along
another river and into the hills to where you can see the Fishtail
mountain and the Anapurna range for the last hour of the trip... a total
of 6 hours... Just beautiful! And it had recently rained and though
still cloudy, the snows were peeking through and the setting sun
highlighted them as if the Lord was taking His paintbrush to them for
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The next morning we got up at 0430 and got a taxi to the ridge (
Sarankot) hoping to see the snows in all their glory but they were all
socked in. Just as we were leaving we had a momentary lift of the cloud
cover and got a brief but amazing view a little after the sunrise. </div>
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The next couple days we did a lot of shopping... some in the
tourist area of Lakeside and some in the heart of the local beat after
taking the local bus about 30 minutes into town. We bought umbrellas as
the heat was really draining. One day I took 3 naps... the heat just
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We had a lovely little boat ride where the driver informed us there
were green snakes in the forest that dropped out of the trees...and
that it was a steep 2-3 hour uphill hike to the little white stuppa and
an hour and a half down... that kind of nixed it for us. Diane was still
game to go but she was afraid of the green snakes. Me? the snakes
didn't concern me but uphill and steep in the same sentence coupled
with heat was enough to deter me! we resolved to go the next day. Well
it poured rain just as we were planning to go ... truly a sign! We
napped instead... then went for chinese!</div>
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Back to Kathmandu <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_567312459" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Friday</span></span>,
this time in the air-conditioned tourist bus! Diane obtained the
tickets on her ownand sprung for the both of us! I did not object! </div>
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I
woke up nauseous that morning and struggled through the first half of
the 8 hour trip. Someone was praying though cause I began feeling better
even though the winding road actually got worser as we went along.</div>
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2 days in K-du to wrap things up and complete our shopping and packing brought us to <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_567312460" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Monday</span></span>
and time to say goodbye. I made sure Diane got through at the Korean
air counter and knew where to go through immigration and security (
there are few signs and it is very confusing!) and heard that she made
it safely to Seoul and was having a lovely time at the Hyatt there. Her
update on her mom said she is improving and doing fairly well with rehab
and may even be able to go home in another week or two if she can learn
to do things without trying to bend.</div>
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I left K-du a few hours later on the AC night bus with Nancy DIdi,
my mothers best friend fromTeam Nepal days in Dadeldhura! The trip was
actually very comfortable this time... and as it was hot as blazes and
humid we were VERY greatful we got good seats and it had
airconditioning! We covered the same bad road I had done twice before
this week and again a month ago. So I am done with this road! 18 hours later we arrived in Dhangadi and had brunch with our
lifelong friends there. A quick shower helped but we were sweating
within minutes again.</div>
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Becky Didi arrived on the Yeti flight
and we rented a private car to take us up the hill. We had a slow but
careful driver this time and arrived at the bakery just at dark. S****
had dal bhat waiting for us! </div>
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It was great to discover the roof had been poured on our facility
in my absence! PTL! It was poured a week ago so now has to setup a total
of 22 days. It has rained here 2 days in a row so that is great to keep
the cement wet while it sets up. </div>
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Sadly the handover at the hospital never happened as it was
supposed to The 2 men are still being held in custody and HDCS has
neither arranged for their release nor accepted responsibility for it.
They have also not paid any of the staff or given them their pensions.
The Head hancho refuses to come and is pressuring folk ouut here to do
the handover for him, threatening them in fact if they don't. It
continues to create a real hardship for all the staff. The last of the
staff have been told by the gov they must be out by <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_567312461" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Saturday</span></span>,
off hospital property. Police were to be checking those folks houses
today but didn't show. Some are being escorted by police to bajang <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_567312462" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">tomorrow</span></span>
to retreive any supplies that were sent there and go through them...
supposably. There is rumored that anybody who has a computer or cameras
or equipment that ever belo9nged to the hospital must return them or be
charged with stealing. It just gets uglier all the time! Pray for a
rapid end to all these problems... it appears greed is at the root of
most of the current challenges and cowardice and irresponsibility are
dragging the situation far beyond what it should be. </div>
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Well I have likely bored you all so will turn in here. Nancy andf Becky are staying with me till <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_567312463" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Sunday</span></span> when they return to K-du on the Yeti flight. Pray for Becky as she felt horrible today...</div>
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please pray for water... we get so little each day now and it must
stretch for the Bakery, P*** family of 6 plus their 3 guests and the 3
of us! Also our toilet is broken between the tank and bowl! Yo Nepal
Ho... but we have internet:)!</div>
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Pray for the expedious completion of the construction on the
building and enough water daily to keep that cement wet and setting up
propperly!</div>
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That should give you all plenty to pray for on our behalf!</div>
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What can I pray for you for? Though I will not be twiddling my
thumbs the next 2 weeks I should be able to lift you up as well! Time
enough to fit in prayers between what God has called me to do!</div>
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Oh pray for us as we visit those in jail again <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_567312464" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">tomorrow</span></span>! 5 have now believed since we started visiting them at Easter! </div>
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Off road now!</div>
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Toodles</div>
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Dawn Didi</div>
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2 Timothy 1: 7 and John 14 :27</div>
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Peace!</div>
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Dare to Care Inchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11719087162731705164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635645171382133346.post-76289526364214257422013-05-13T21:14:00.001-07:002013-05-13T21:14:18.656-07:00Pushing Progress . . .Tomorrow Diane and I will be on the move bright and early! We need your prayers as we travel unexpectedly to Kathmandu as Diane got word that her mother fractured 8 vertebrae on her back and is in a brace in a rehab unit in Texas. She did not fall- apparently this is a spontaneous fracture.... but she is in a lot of pain and Diane feels she should get home and assist with her care. Can't say I blame her... it has been great to have her here supporting and encouraging. She has been a great help to Sundari in the bakery and has taught several newbies to crochet! She has also played endless games of Scrabble with our landlords teeenage boys and outfitted several needy with new clothes, shoes and bookbags!<br />
We have a flight from Dhangadi to K-du at 2:20 on Yeti airlines tomorrow( a glorified tin can of an airplane!) and have booked our own transport down the 4-5 hours to the airport. It is a good thing as we heard there is a bhundh ( block) so hopefully they (those that block the road) will allow 2 white older females on their way to an emergency" in America to get past any obstacles they may have put in our path. Trusting in God Almighty and His mighty angels to get us through. Of course it has to be an adventure and can't just be a ho hum journey... there has to be some great story in all this!<br />
Speaking of obstacles... met a few more on the building project! The wood never came on time... our workman have sat and twiddled their proverbial thumbs waiting for it to arrive. The wood man came yesterday and informed me he had delivered it and he wanted his last 500 NRS. I believed him and paid him. 30 min later our contractor met me and complained the wood still wasn't delivered! I hit the roof! I just paid the dirty liar! We tried to hunt the woodman down. We finally caught up with him 7 hours later when he showed up to our site.. still without the prepaid rented wood beams!<br />
3 of us gave him a piece of our minds and let him know in no uncertain terms that he better show up with the wood by morning or else his business in this community was over!<br />
The wood arrived this morning but it will now take the workman 3 days to prepare the ceiling to pour the concrete roof! And then 22 days for it to set up! Then we can lay the electric and plumbing and plaster the walls and then paint and think about moving the girls in! Oh and of course we can't forget digging the septic!<br />
I plan to extend my ticket home another 3 weeks in hopes I can really get these girls in their new place.<br />
I am thrilled the Lord has brought me Thirtha Pant(soon to be jobless!), the hospital maintanance man, to be our plumbing and electrical contractor! He is very knowledgable and experienced and I can't think of a Nepali more qualified to do the job. We spent several hours these last 2 days discussing how to make this all handicap accessable and user friendly for them considering heights and placements of everything from lightbulbs to toilets and sinks. He could, if needed, even transfer them from their current location to the new house when all is done as he has a working knowledge of how to dismantle their metal beds and empty and refill their water beds. He is a believer and willing to do the tranferring pro bono and the contract work for a very reasonable wage! Praise God!<br />
We had another visit to the prison on Thursday! We had 41 men and 5 women all wanting to learn to crochet at the same time with the 9 hooks and 4 balls of yarn I brought! I was expecting a prison fight to break out! Actually they were all very well behaved and didn't kill themseves or us with their metal knitting needles! The guards did decide they would remove all sharp objects from them at the end of the day however!<br />
I sang them all a local Shoo Shoo geet ( Dotiyali song) and got a standing ovation from them all which involved alot of hooting and hollering. Then Diane and I sang them " She'll be coming round the Mountain" and eased into some Nepali Xian songs! We all had a really fun time all the while teaching/ learning crocheting!<br />
2 of the 5 women prayed to accept Christ including the 17 year old girl that is in cause her brother in law raped her, got her pregnant, fled to India and several months later she had a miscarriage bleeding for several days. She is accused of killing her child so is in jail for 35 days to 3 months awaiting her trial! What a justice system! Huh!<br />
One man claimed he has been healed since our last visit and another man says he is much better! SO we are encouraged with the "jailbird ministry!" The man who accepted Christ last week still wants a Hindi Bible so I will try to find him one in K-du this week! God is alive and well in Dadeldhura even in the strangest of places...like jail!<br />
The handover for the hospital is due this week. The place is a ghosttown. Even the businesses here along Team Road are dead! So many vendours are crying as their livelihood appears finished along with the hospital. The staff are all in fear they will not get their final paychecks or pensions. 2 staff are still in prison and HDCS has done nothing to get them out. All the administrative staff have fled in the night at variopus points and the head hancho of HDCS called and asked a church elder who was let go from the hospital staff 5 years ago to please please handle the handover! What a joke! Today we learned the CDO ( Chief District Officer) also left in the night last night! He was a friend of the local hospital administrator... hummm what a disaster! They all need your prayers! Most staff have had their last few paychecks cut without being informed.... just shorted 5000 or 6000 on their checks and they discover it when they get to the bank and try to cash it!. The bakery tab the top brass ran up, hasn't been paid or the tab for the pharmacy meds for our paraplegics nor their monthly allowances for food and necessities... Guess I will have to make a visit to the HDQrts in K-du and see how I can advocate for the girls at least!<br />
I hear a woman crying in the street below... I feel powerless. Can't tell in the dark where it is really coming from! Sounds like on Team Road right below me!<br />
Well better get some sleep... it is likely going to be a long day tomorrow.<br />
Tomorrow and Monday are both supposed to be Bhundhs according to the paper. Tuesday I hope to take Diane to Pokara for 2 days and then get her on a flight home maybe Friday. I will then return on the AC bus ... another 25 -30 hours??? so hope to be back here by Saturday or Sunday. The community all agree the building project will progress faster if I am here to push it along!<br />
Pushing for progress!<br />
Dawn Didi<br />
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