A House of Peace for the Innocent

Change is good, change teaches you things. Either you are going backwards and the negative change teaches you what you need to do different next time to move forward. Or you are going forward and you still learn from it and embrace the next change. If you don't make changes happen, they will happen on there own but probably not for the better, so we should always strive to move forward into the next positive change.

At Casa de Paz change is an every day thing. Right now we are battling "Mindes" (the law) with a new rule; kids either need to be abandoned completely or taken back by the parents. A lot of our kids are here for protection from violence in the home. In Peru marriage is a rare thing. You get together with some one, have some kids and move on to someone else, seems to be the trend.  So very often the "new boyfriend" is violent to the kids or the mom is left on her own with no way to take care of the kids. Trust is another issue. Rather than getting together with a neighbor and striking some sort of deal like "take care of my kids while I get out and make some money and we will split the money" the kids get left behind all on there own for 12 hours or more while the mom is out somewhere trying to earn some cash. Often times the kids are very young. 

We just got five new kids that were found on the dump site, someone from the community finally called child services after the oldest 12 year got raped. The sad part is when the parents are found and the judge decides that the home is suitable to send the kids back. Nothing will change, the rapist will not be found and the chances of it happening again are very high. This is real life for too many children. Most of our children come from towns other than Pacasmayo where our orphanage is located. Pacasmayo has greatly improved since Avis Goodhart started her ministry. Casa de Paz which means ''house of peace'' is is exactly that, a house where children come and find peace. We make every effort to make this as much like a real family setting as possible, spending time with the kids and teaching them what they are worth in the eyes of God. little things like taking the boys out and buying them a bag of chips or and ice cream or playing cards or just plain old sitting there watching TV with them means the world to them. You can not walk around out in the yard without someone coming running up to give you a hug or wanting to be picked up, its pretty cool to live here. God has blessed my family in sending us here to help Avis with day to day operations, and we hope to do more and more as Avis goes out to speak at different church's in America to drum up support to keep Casa de Paz going.

If God ever touches your heart to donate and you are in Canada, please contact me at hiebert83@gmail.com and I will give you the details on how to do that and get a tax receipt. If you are in the USA simply click the GO YE link on the home page of the blog to go to Go Ye ministries web page and click donate on there, and you  will get a tax receipt. I pray for Gods blessing and anointing on you today and for ever in Jesus name amen.