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June, 2009
It
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s finally gotten cold enough here for the long sleeves and warm blankets. What a change to sleep with more than asheet! We
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re blessed to be staying in a home with doors and windows, so we can close out the cold winds through thenight. Most of our neighbors aren
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t so fortunate. The past several weeks, YOU have bought them very warm blankets,which we
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ve delivered door-to-door. Many of the most needy families only speak Guarani, so we always take a translatorwith us. Most often it
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s our evangelist friend, Saúl. This is a double blessingbecause he knows these families, and they know he is a Christian. Even thoughwe can
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t have longconversations with them, theyassociate us with the
“
Man withthe Bible
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and this opens thedoor to us for return visits.One of the phrases we know howto say in Guarani is
“
God bless you.
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A few days ago, I said this to anelderly woman who
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d just been handed a blanket. She was so excited andsaid,
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I know He is the one true God because my husband and I had nothing to cover ourselves with last night andtoday I have a blanket.
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Some of the homes are full of small children, and we sure sleep better at night knowingthey have something to bundle up in. We always tell them they are gifts from Christian friends in another part ofthe world who love them and are praying for them. They find this hard to fathom, it seems, but they always say thank you.While visiting these homes, Ken decided to take on a family photo project. He realized that many of them would never have apicture of their children or their home. He went back out one day and photographed as many of then as he found at home, andprinted them off to give as gifts. The families were a bit skeptical at first, asking a lot of questions about what the pictureswould be used for. We found small frames at a great price and put one of each family inside its own frame, for safer keeping.Over the next few days, we
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ll be walking back into the woods to deliver these gifts, just in time for Fathers Day.
 
We were contacted by a missionary couple in a city 5 hours from us about scarves and hats. They were given a stash ofhandmade fleece ones made by a Paraguayan widow for needy children. They sent us a giant bag full of the goodies (and acouple packs of MARSHMALLOWS!) and we had such funhanding these out. The teachersfrom the local elementary schooltold the children not to come toschool without their scarves andhats, so we
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ve been seeing fleece onevery head around!
My name will be great among the nations, from the rising to the setting of the sun… Malachi 1:11
 
Carapegua, Paraguay, South AmericaWEBPAGE:www.hagermans.blogspot.comEMAIL: hagerman100@yahoo.com
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