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Hello Friends!

Just seems like time to write to you and give you an update.

So we now have 20 interns from varying backgrounds, including married couples from California and Holland.   We have two families who are waiting to sell their houses in the U.S and move their families here for 6 months!  It is growing and we are getting better with each semester.  The interns have ‘class’ from 9.30-12.30 and 2.00-4.30.   Evening meals are cooked by a team of two at each of the houses, so it is an experience for them to cook for a large group and keep within a budget, but make it nutritional and good!  Our family now eats one meal at each house per week and on Fridays everyone goes to the villa for “tapas’, and everyone brings something.  

 
It is really wonderful to see the interns actually grasp truths, we hear over and over again..” How come no-one ever told us”…..mostly on the subject of covenant.  But on other subjects too.  We have just started a grading system for which will determine if they graduate with a certificate of completion or cert. of excellence.  They are graded in Servanthood, community, initiative, excellence, and ground-breaking.  Did you serve someone other than yourself, did you serve the community, did you do everything to the best of your ability, did you come up with ideas to make something better, or change something, did you go and do something out of your comfort zone, have you made plans to go and do and not just sit and ponder.
 
It’s good stuff.
 
We still have most lunches or evenings filled with visitors, but it is what we love. They bring joy and become family.  
 
 

I still teach English in the evenings, and the kids are really beginning to get it, it’s amazing.

Dave is still doing all the ‘grunt ‘work, accounting, teaching classes, organizing, and designing how the centre should run.  He is constantly trying to improve it and bring in new ideas.  If anyone knows of an accountant who works with non-profits, dave would love to have their name!
 
Emma just had one of the interns make a video of her singing a song from ‘camp rock’, she is entering a disney competition to become the next new disney singer! She won a poetry competition in her school this week!  (In Spanish!!) and bought herself a keyboard with the money she makes with her candy store!  I swap keyboard lesson for English lessons, so far she knows “oh when the saints go marchin’ in”.
 
Gabriella is loved by all.  She loves horses and goes to  the home of one of the families in a local church, and gets to ride their horse!!!  She is in heaven.
 
She is really into fashion and never ever likes the clothes I choose, and likes her hair just “so”.  She is still my helper and is trustworthy.
 

Ben talks!!!!!!!  “me go, no”  or “me, chocolate, yes”,  “blah-blah” ( Gabriella) oooh so lovely, he will give you kisses out of the blue .  He is known for being “such a good boy” truly a joy.

Life is full, but mostly fulfilling.  We are working hard, but seeing great results.  Things are already happening, but we can see in the years to come, as the pool of grads grow and the businesses and ministries multiply, how “suddenly” there is big change.  We are a part of something wonderful, that is producing life.  It is an honour.

As always, THANK YOU for your support, we are so so so very grateful and amazed.   Feel free to ‘pop-in’. Come and see what you are allowing us to build.
 

With love,
Rebecca, Dave , Em, Gabs, and Ben x

One response to “Hearn Family Spring Update”

  1. Thanks for all you guys are doing out there! I can’t give you enough appreciation. Love the pictures!