DEau 'n

Beeman^s Bulletin
News of NiNOS DE MEXICO
Field Address:

Forwarding Agents:

Merlyn J. Beeman Family-Missionaries

Ninos de Mexico

Sr. y Sra. Merlyn J. Beeman Apartado Postal 51 Texcoco, Edo. de Mexico

Mexico

Ninos de Mexico

c/o Mr. and Mrs. John S. Jahnssen

R.R. 2 Box 180

Marthasville, Mo. 63357

Publicity Agents:
Mr. and Mrs. Don Bader P.O.Box 287

Package Address:
Nines de Mexico
3310B Lane

Union, Missouri 63084

Merlyn Terry David
Wanda

Laredo, Texas 78040

Gregory

VOLUME VI

JUNE

1971

NUMBER

COOK AND KITCHEN SUPERVISOR NEEDED June was a orood month for Nlaos

wrong-. I went to her house and the baby's temperature w^^s 103* The little girl h^-d a terrible infection
so we took her to Texcoco to the

de MfeTico. We all send you ^reetin?s! The first p^rt of June a good
friend and brother in Christ came

nearest doctor.

I*ra not a

nurse

so

I couldn't handle anythinfir but so many of these people

major can't

and spent a couple of

vacation with us.

days of
as

his
a

He works

cook so, naturally,

use of his talents

we

r.ade
he

good
was

while

even clean a slT.ple cut or give a shot. We can ^ive shots and taKe care of simple things if vje have the equipment to do i t with. Many things
we need to be able to care for the

with us. We need a ?ood someone to supervise the

in the kitchen and he is
here His

cook and children

wonderful

in this capacity.

We've tried

to

convince him to work f a r we have failed.

but so r!Ot^?er

children -lere in the Home. So, if any of you work in a drug store or could get us any first aid supplies we could cert'-^inly use them.
Dorna Leon-ard of OzarK Bible Col

also carce along and helped with n";endlnff. We appreci=ite so much the help our Mexican brothers elve us.

lege

arrived

on

June 8th to
She was

help
kept

out for the sumaer.

busy mending, cleaning and working in the kitchen. We are very grate ful to Donna for her help during June and July.

ANGEL.

OUH VISITING COOK,

HOLDS MARIA ELENA

This month Merlyn started teach

ing here in the hon]es in San Vicente.

DONNA LEONARD PROM

MOUNTAIN VIEW, MISSOUril

He is takinnr the boys with him 'and using a borrowed projector andfl]strips.
soon

We hope to have our

the children vjill

own
be

so that

We had a lot of visitors June. The young people and

teachers and Sum-r-r World

during their

able to use them for their

program.

calling

sr-onsors from the Institute of Missions

We could use some medical sup plies. Just some sirrple things for infection and throw-away syringes
nd needles. There are no reliable T.ediCRl f a c i l i t i e s in San Vicente.

(SWIM) spent a few d-^ys with us

and

I w<=!S going throujrh town one

Wed

they were a big help. One of the weekends they were here the river flooded our back y^^jrd '^nd they .help ed us dig ditches to keep the water out of our pump houses. Also, during

nesday and saw-.our,.neighbor stand ing in the town-square. She had Just h^d a baby-on Monday and look

June, Mike Lymj^n, a college student from Odessa, Tex^s c me to help out. We want to say th=ink you to all of
our visitors for being with Nlrlos de
M^fxico this summer.

ed very sick.
her.

1 stopped to talk to

They h^d taken the baby to the

"so called" doctor here In town and

No6 gradu-^ted

from

Secondary
a nice

he had told them there was nothing

School this year and we had

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party for him and

his

ffradu^ting

these Bible College students

summer.

this

cl^ss. He received special awards for first place in English class 9nd third place in '^ath in his dis trict. During the year he won sev
eral awards for achievement and

So many

of our hours are Mexico City to

spent the

with J^ime these days. He is much worse and has to frar^e several trips

per week into

conduct.
won first

Several of our first year

Alfredo

hosptial for treatment.

harder for him to bear.

He is very

students also won awards.

place in his whole

class

brave and this helps him a lot. He needs your prayers as each d^.y gets
Merlyn, Martha, Melania and Ho berto left for the U.S. on June

for everything. All of our second ary students were their teacher's favorites. They are all good stu^
dents and their teachers have told

2^th.
nois and
a

Kerl^m to

be

missionary
Illi

rae more th?5n once th^t they wished

a l l of t h e i r students like our children do.
t .11

speaker in a

camp in Southern

would

behave

the children to visit their

friends in the States.

wonderful time.

They all had

We are terribly proud of our baby John Mark. He sits up by himself now "and crawls all over the place.
The children all love hix and s t i l l

fight over who will get to hold him. He's very spoiled!
I had a l i t t l e scare. I had been

feeling b^d for quite av/hile and passing out a couole of tines a day so I went for a check-up. Ky doctor
said th^t besides the fact that I

"FFLICIDADES" TO NOE AND HIS CLASSMATES

was worn out I h^d som^^-thing wrong that ray heart isn't beating right. So he sent me to a cardiologist. After a vp-ry thorough examination

Merlyn gave a lecture on orpha nage v?ork to the SWIM students while they were in Kexico City. I even got to give thecj Just a brief glimpse of wh^t i t is like to live at Nifios ie K4xico. We really did enjoy the fellowship we had with

he said th=5t it was just my nerves making my heart beat irregularly and
that w-'s the c-use of my fainting.

I thanked God for t^i-^t bec-^use just what I don't need at the present is
a heart condition!

Thank you for June.

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Beeman^s Bulletin
News of NINOS DE MEXICO
Field Address:

Merlyn J. Beeman Family-Missionaries

Ninos de Mexico

Forwarding Agents:
Ninos de Mexico

Sr. y Sra. Merlyn J. Beeman Apartado Postal 51 Texcoco, Edo. de Mexico

Mexico

c/o Mr. and Mrs. John S. Jahnssen

R.R. 2 Box 180

Marthasville, Mo. 63357

Publicity Agents:
Mr. and Mrs. Don Bader
P.O. Box 287

Package Address:

Nifibs de M^ico
3310B Lane

Union, Missouri 63084 Merlyn Terry David Gregory

Wanda

Laredo, Texas 78040

VOLUWE VI

AUGUST

1971

NUMBrR 8

"PIDFL'S EYE OPERATION A SUCCESS

Foundation,
did Tean a

Inc.
lot

That

certainly

to us.

Greetings once again to each of you from down Mexico wayl I sup pose you think i t is really hot
here now. SometiTes I wish it

were. Our v/amest nonth is usually May and now with the daily rains it stays fairly cool. Our average

temperature here is abotit 62.

The first two weeks of were ones we had been
towards for some time.

August planning
Our kids

were going to teach two weeks of DV3S in Texcoco. They are really working hard there to get a new work going. They are now working weekly with the teenagers there and
this was the first contact with

FIDEL AFTER OPERATION

little ones. We really had a good school. There were over 50 differ
ent ones who attended and our dally

And,

too, we

than;^ all of

you

high was Jk,

good contacts.

We really
Our

made some
kids were

excellent teachers.

who sent special offerings for Fidel's operation. Since the Knl.ghts Templar Eye Foundation paid for it all we hope you won't mind us using the offerings in other need
ed areas of the Home, There are many
at this time.

On the 3rd Fidel entered .the hos pital for an operation on the muscles of his eyes. He was not able to focus -^'ell on anything and
h-^d headaches all of the tlTe. We

Donna Leonard frofD Kt. View, Mo. and Don Beach, Delta, Colo, left us
the first of this month. We thank

didn't really

find out what

he

his
entered

probleT. was until

"Telesecundaria**. That is secondary school by television. Then because

he was unable to see his classes

you for your help this suamer. Seven Project Challenge worJ^ers continued with us until the 26th and then they
bussed off to California. So much

well we took hisii to a specialist and he said that he needed an oper

ation.

On the ^th he was operated

i t was sort of funny and
real sad.

on

successfully and was home on the 5th recuperating well. In a sense

in another
first This was Fidel's

was accomplished this summer and how grateful we are to all of you. Then on the 9th Greg Curran from Washington, Missouri arrived here. Washington is where v;e served before coming to Mexico. Greg stayed with us nearly 3 weeks and we enjoyed

having him. put our got the

was

He got sick a bit

Of coarse,

but
we

took i t real well.

dealing with any doctor, or anything like i t . He

positive he would never
and had written a letter

hospital was so
see
to

again
his

girlfriend telling her good-bye and off he vjent to **degth rov;" leaving bravely. Since his girlfrierid is Isaias, One of our girls here in the Home, we found out about the
l e t t e r and we were able to reassure him he wouldn't die and would be able to see b e t t e r afterwards. We are so thankful to Mr. V.

him to work as we do most of "more-than-a-day" visitors. He to see some sights, too, from bull fights to Acapulcol On the 17th we really did it! It

LAZY DAY FUN FOR THE KIDS

Shipman from Baker, Oregon who Tiade i t possible for Fidel to have this operation with all expenses

We took everyone to Acapulco. Yes, everyone! About 3 ir^ the morning we piled into the Van and 2 cars and were off arriving about 11 a.m. It was a fun day on the beach and pic

nicking there.

The kids

got "well

paid by the Knights Templar

Eye

done" and some of those l i t t l e brown

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ones even peeled. For nearly all of

the children i t was to see the ocean. their f i r s t time

gets back but the way finances

that seems impossible.

are

As a matter

of fact we will soon be

our construction workers

layin;?
until

off
No

vember 1 to try and ffet

financially.
On the 30th an old

caught

up

Christian

Service Camp fellow camper arrived to visit us, Nina Abel was with us last year, too. She is on vacation

from her work as a hair stylist. How pretty she makes our girl's hair
look!

After 37 days in the hospital again Jaime was brought home the 25th.

The doctors can

ON THE ACAPULGO BEACH for it!

only say he is

dy

ing and we continue to pray for him. A big month it was. We thank you

The return trip took even longer* We planned to ?o and core the same day but Carol's car didn^t aj^ree. The electrical system went out on the ni^'""t trip home. It ended up that wp irot a motel

OL,U^

room and

stayed

overnight
horne.

about
Yes,

one third of the way

th=^t is risrht, everyone (except the oldest boys) in one roomt It

was our first opportunity to have wall-to-wall people. The old.er bovs slept in the cars.
Then on the ?Oth we did it

againt We had an opportunity to take the children to see ^Disney

on Parade" and so we did. All of PILAH AwD CRUZ

them again I They loved i t " but" the "Love Bug" V// scared John Mark.
School was soon to start and

TH2IR MOTHBH C0MiHTT?D SUICIDE

the children had been o;ood farmers, builders, cleaners, painters, etc. all summer and we felt they deserved
it.

Towards

the

end of the month

letter arrived brinsino: tears.

advised us mother had

It

that Cruz and Pilar's committed suicide. It

was quite a shock to an 11 year old boy and his 9 year old sister.
She l e f t not knowing the Lord.
Carol l e f t the end of this -ronth for a well-deserved rest back in the States. She will return in

5-6 weeks.
her room

We V7ere hoping to have

done by the time she
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