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&lt;h1 id="diciembre-2024">DICIEMBRE 2024&lt;/h1>
&lt;p>OUR &lt;strong>&lt;em>FAMILY&lt;/em>&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
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&lt;p>This month always brings many emotions and hearts full of gratitude for birthday celebrations in the family;&lt;/p>
&lt;p>On the 7th my beloved mother-in-law,&lt;/p>
&lt;p>On the 12th we celebrated my 46th birthday, wow, I feel so blessed.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>On the 17th my sister Conchita turned 50, her whole life is a beautiful miracle, it reminds me of God&amp;rsquo;s faithfulness, the doctors said that she would only live until she was 15, our God has allowed her to live and despite her mental retardation she enjoys of the life that God gives you.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Rivera Family, October and November 2024</title><link>https://archive.sgwm.com/rivera/rivera/2024/12/02/rivera-family-october-and-november-2024/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 23:39:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://archive.sgwm.com/rivera/rivera/2024/12/02/rivera-family-october-and-november-2024/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;strong>Our Family&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Its been a crazy days, weeks, months, years, life for us as a family and individual, always something its happening, always new adventures, and God is in each one of them.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Azaff has a high pain tolerance so, every time he let us know something its not ok we act right away, he continue with the treatment for seizure. On November 5 Azaff had a Surgery for appendicitis stage 2, it was a intense time waiting for results to know what was happening.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>July to October 10, 2024</title><link>https://archive.sgwm.com/rivera/rivera/2024/10/11/july-to-october-10-2024/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 04:18:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://archive.sgwm.com/rivera/rivera/2024/10/11/july-to-october-10-2024/</guid><description>&lt;p>Hi Friends and family!!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Thank you for your love, support and prayers through the years for our family.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Its been a wonderful adventure been able to continually witnesses Gods faithfulness.&lt;/p>
&lt;div class="highlight">&lt;pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;">&lt;code class="language-fallback" data-lang="fallback">&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>We pray you are all doing well when reading this update!!
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>The Mission for children / La Mision para niños
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>We keep serving at this wonderful ministry that God plant in our hearts since i was 19 years old, (26 years ago)
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>Its our joy to announce we have a new family, the Cruz family!!! Anna and Belo serve at the Mision as a single staff for several years, they got married almost 2 years a go and feel the call to serve as a family at the Mission, its been a wonderfull blessing to have them back at home!!
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>We always have new staff coming and going during the year, so grateful for our amazing single staff: Blanca, Estefani, Yair, Karolina, Zimri, Ashley, Aneli, Lisa, Gedeon and Cora, Elaina, Pearl.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>Bring joy to our hearts and confort our souls, to witness Gog&amp;#39;s faitfulness every time for every need we face each day.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>So thankful for the churches and groups that visit home, they bring rest to all our staff and fun times of sharing the word, snacks, board games etc
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>At the moment we are focused on obteining the Mission&amp;#39;s operating license again and that takes time, finances, different courses such as: From Civil proteccion, drills, what to do in case of a fire, ertquake, etc., although all of this represents work, something extra because in the middle of any activity we never stop caring for the Mission&amp;#39;s kids, our amaizing staff always makes us laugh as we live together in the midst of any situation and that is a beautiful blessing.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>AZAFF&amp;#39;S ADVENTURES
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>Our family adventures seems to never ends, our jornual with our son Azaff stared an the end of 2019, he was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor on hes brain, he received 2 surgeries with in a week one from the other to remove the tumor, they where able to remove about 95% the rest was to dangerous to remove, since then he is been improving litle by litle until this day.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>Jesus is with us at every step of the this adventure with our beloved son Azaff.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>Even he keep losing hes vision slowly, he graduate from High school this past July,
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>its been so challenging for him but he does not give up!! At hes graduation he sang a beautiful song name &amp;#34;God knows what he does&amp;#34;
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>The doctor recommended for him to learn Braille and keep doing therapies for fine motor skills, also he need to keep practicing rock climbing, that therapie eye-hands and feets helps him a lot, we will continue going to San Diego ones a week for that therapy, he is still on medication for seizures, sometimes its difucult because of finnances but we keep trusting our amaizing God and resting on Him in the midst of all circumstances.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>Prayer request
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>1. Please pray for strength, wisdom, joy, and all the fruits of the spirit for me in homeschooling our kids, Azaff is now at 9 grade and Abdiel at 8 grade.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>1. Please pray for provision for the medical treatment, traveling expenses, rock Climbing therapy expenses.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>1. Straight and joy to our wonderful Mission kids, staff and families.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>1. Also if you will love to bless our staff with snacks or anything, you can send them packages to:
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>La Mision para niños
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>With so much love
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>The Rivera Family
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>Miguel, Zurisadai, Conchita, Azaff, Abdiel.
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&lt;p>Thank you for your love, support and prayers through the years for our family.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Its been a wonderful adventure been able to continually witnesses Gods faithfulness.&lt;/p>
&lt;div class="highlight">&lt;pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;">&lt;code class="language-fallback" data-lang="fallback">&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>We pray you are all doing well when reading this update!!
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>The Mission for children / La Mision para niños
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>We keep serving at this wonderful ministry that God plant in our hearts since i was 19 years old, (26 years ago)
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>In all this years we been having so many seasons, fun ones, stressful ones, new-old families, single staff, groups, churches etc, if you visit the Mission now you will notice a big change in everything, before &amp;#34;The Riveras&amp;#34; where the only Mexican family serving at the Mission, for the last 2 years the Hulstrom family where the only American family serving at home together with other wonderful families we have serving here, the Ahumada&amp;#39;s, Lopez, Bastida&amp;#39;s and recently we receive the Darger family, what a blessing to have them all here!!
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>Just 2 weeks ago we said goodbye to the Hultroms, it was a wonderful blessing have them back at home. We are so thankful for their time here in obedience to our God like every family serving here, so grateful for the friendship, their hearts and example in their service to everyone, Mission kids, one to another and to the community of the Ejido we are in, so grateful for our amazing single staff: Blanca, Estefani, Yair, Karolina, Zimri, Davis, Ashley.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>In the mist of so many changes, One thing always remain, He&amp;#39;s love and faithfulness for this wonderful Mission kids and the different ways they bless us all every time we serve them, what a privilege, what an honor!!
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>AZAFF&amp;#39;S ADVENTURES
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>Our family adventures seems to never ends, our jornual with our son Azaff stared an the end of 2019, he was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor on hes brain, he received 2 surgeries with in a week one from the other to remove the tumor, they where able to remove about 95% the rest was to dangerous to remove, since then he is been improving litle by litle until this day.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>After almost 3 years traveling to Tijuana 1 to 3 days a week for 1 to 5 different therapies, he finish successfully every level, he improved so much, grow to a high of 176cm, when the doctors use to said &amp;#34;He wont grow, walk, talk etc, etc&amp;#34;, but i know who is my Daddy!!! Abundantly merciful!! I keep asking myself, how people those without Jesus!!!
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>Azaff is losing hes vision slowly, so the doctor recommended for him to learn Braille and keep doing therapies for fine motor skills, also he need to keep practicing rock climbing, that therapie eye-hands and feets helps him a lot, we will continue going to San Diego ones a week for that therapy.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>Prayer request
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>1. Please pray for strength, wisdom, joy, and all the fruits of the spirit for me in homeschooling our kids, Azaff will be graduating of 8 grade in July and Abdiel will pass to the 8 grade.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>1. Please pray for provision for the medical treatment, traveling expenses, rock Climbing therapy expenses.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>1. Straight and joy to our wonderful Mission kids, staff and families.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>1. Also if you will love to bless our staff with snacks or anything, you can send them packages to:
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>La Mision para niños
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>P. O. BOX 460
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>Tecate CA 91980
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>With so much love
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>The Rivera Family
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>Miguel, Zurisadai, Conchita, Azaff, Abdiel.
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&lt;div class="highlight">&lt;pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;">&lt;code class="language-fallback" data-lang="fallback">&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>We pray you are all doing well when reading the update of our family!!
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>The end of 2021
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>December was so full of blessings for all our mission kids, staff and families.
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>Christmas at the mission is always so special, and there is no better way you understand until you spend Christmas here at home surrounded for all the kids joy, food, presents and Gods love everywhere.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>AZAFF&amp;#39;S ADVENTURES
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>Our family adventures seems to never ends, our jornual with our son Azaff stared an the end of 2019, he was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor on hes brain, he received 2 surgeries with in a week one from the other to remove the tumor, they where able to remove about 95% the rest was to dangerous to remove, since then he is been improving litle by litle until this day.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>We are now traveling two hours every week to a physical therapy center where he is getting treatment to improve his motor skills, eye side and balance.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>Prayer request
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>1. Please pray for strength, wisdom, joy, and all the fruits of the spirit for me in homeschooling our kids Azaff and Abdiel.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>1. All though we have a car that take us there and back it is time for a new car, please help us pray for provision so that we can afford a good reliable car.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>1. Please pray for provision for the medical treatment and traveling expenses.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>1. Mission kids, staff and families.
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>With so much love
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>The Rivera Family
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>Miguel, Zurisadai, Conchita, Azaff, Abdiel.
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