June 1, 2014
Brooklin and Rebecca Nash
42 Gainsborough Rd.
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Hello friends and family!
We
hope this letter greets you with peace and abundance of joy. Living half way
across the world for the past year, we have not been able to share with you
many stories from the first year of our marriage, nor our life in Israel. This
is why we write you: First, to share with you messages of God’s love and
faithfulness from this year. Second, to share with you where the next part of
our journey takes us and to ask if you would like to support us.
This
year has been a year of learning how to love, and how to love well. Learning
how to love Abba God, how to love each other, and how to love our
neighbor. This is what all our
entire lives are about, right? We have learned that by keeping God in the
center of our individual lives and our marriage, He pours His love in us so that
we can overflow to others. After pouring into different church communities and
serving African refugees in Tel Aviv, we feel compelled to continue serving
Abba internationally. More specifically, Abba has led us to commit the next
fifteen months to living and serving the fatherless in Guatemala.
Why
serve at an orphanage in Guatemala?
First and foremost, it is our dream to live out the verse “Seek justice,
encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of
the widow” (Is. 1:17). There are
over 370,000 orphans in Guatemala, a country where 70% of people live below
poverty line. In addition, only 3
out of 10 children in Guatemala graduate from 6th grade. Brooklin
witnessed this poverty first hand when he visited Guatemala for the first time
in 2012. After volunteering at an
orphanage called Fundacion Salvacion, he wanted to serve these kiddos in a
long-term manner. Becca has always had a heart for serving the oppressed, as
she has worked with marginalized groups in the States, Haiti, and Israel. After learning about the situation in
Guatemala, having personal experiences there, and being offered the opportunity
to go, we are excited to serve at an orphanage and school together as a team!
In
Huehuetenango, Guatemala, we will be serving over 90 children without families,
who live at Fundacion Salvacion.
We will serve at the orphanage and the school the children attend,
Colegio Bilingue Esperanza. Specifically, Brooklin will be a Development
Coordinator, focusing on advancing programs of the school and orphanage,
community outreach, and volunteer coordination so that the kiddos’ needs can be
fully met. Becca will be teaching
English and Art, while taking on additional projects for the orphanage.
Before we can make this step, we need
your help! Please pray with us as
we make this next transition in life. Secondly, if you feel led, please support
us financially. In order to serve
in Guatemala from September 2014-November 2015, we need to raise $5,000 by September 15th. This money
will provide for our transportation costs and basic needs, such as housing,
food, and health expenses for the entire year. If you want to join with us in serving the fatherless by
financially supporting us, please make a donation online at this website
http://youcaring.com/brookandbecca2guatemala. Also,
if you have any questions please email us at ‘brooklin.nash@gmail.com.’ We truly appreciate every prayer and
donation. More so, we thank God
for your role in our life. Keep on
keepin’ on!
In love,
Brook and
Becca
PS If you want to find out more about
what we’ll be doing, check out our blog at tree61.blogspot.com; or the More
Than Compassion webpage at morethancompassion.org.
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