EIGHTEEN YEARS

Pic#1 A cake to be cut
Pic#2 Junior danse and praise team
Pic#3 Our little ones doing their thing
Pic#4 Cheryl leigh playing the drums
Pic#5&6 Some of the crowd.
HEARTS FOR THE CHILDREN MINISTRY &
MOUNT ZION C.O.G.
March 30th 2010 marked the real anniversary for HFTCM and Mount Zion Church in Guatemala!
Missionaries for the most part, when they are called to the mission field, and after preaching the Gospel for a season, are moved to plant a Church for the local population. Then many more aspects of the mission grow. In our case it was somewhat backwards. The vision for the ministry did not call for any Churches to be planted. Armed with the promise of God we set out to set up feed programs, medical and dental clinics and open a Mary Magdalena house for ministry. With no funding but with His promise we moved forward. It was somewhat a year or so latter the God directed us to plant a Church in the area we were working. The original Church is a circus tent, and our first meeting consisted of three children and a child’s toy microphone. Ask today and Elizabeth and I will tell you we did not know what we were doing. Just moving with our Almighty. Buildings were obtained for our medical and dental clinic in Guatemala City.
Thousands are passing through our medical clinics in many parts of Guatemala to obtain low cost medical attention and free medicine... Our food programs continue to feed hundreds each week. Our street outreach to the street people of Guatemala continues to grow. Many prostitutes are now off of the street and living liberated lives, some preaching the Gospel. Some ex street people are praise and worship leaders. A million pieces of clothing and shoes are distributed to the poor and particularly the children of Guatemala, each year through our 40ft. container relief program that brings containers of goods to HFTCM from Canada and the USA.
The story of Jesus has been told to unaccountable multitudes of children all over Guatemala. The kids for Christ club have about 200 members meeting each Tuesday afternoon with various activities and good food. Every Friday morning the garage of the Mary Magdalena house is full of just street people ready to praise God with song and dance. Hundreds of these lost souls have been led to our Lord. A good breakfast of eggs, sausage, beans, coffee and tortillas is served to about 175 people. They call themselves the Crazies for Jesus! We did not set out to deliberately set up this Church we just stumbled into it.
The last part of what God has called us to do is to build a temple for His Glory in the village where this work all started. We recognized the beautiful piece of land that was chosen for the building of a new Church but at time the man planting corn on it indicated it was his and he had no intention of selling. For fifteen years we wandered around looking at many sites but none became a reality. On day a friend told me there was a piece of land available in that village so we went to look at it and were astounded when we recognized it was the land God had identified fifteen years earlier. Looking back on those fifteen years we understand why God made us wait. We may be slow learners, but it is evident that we needed to learn a lot of things before He released the land to us.
The construction is well underway now with the first floor done and the second floor on its way. We plan to put the roof on very soon if the funds are available. Indeed a very exciting time
Once again thank you for your love, prayers and support, may you continue to experience the full blessing of God’s grace and love and if for some reason we are not able to communicate before Jesus returns then, we will see you in heaven.
Sincerely in Christ,
Tom, Elizabeth and Cheryl Leigh Allan