Simple and Proactive

So here it is my friends... Keep it simple and work the plan.

That is my advice for anyone with a vision to do something great.

I believe that when the dream outgrows the foundation it is sitting on it will inevitably falter.

It is in my nature to dream big... too big.

At this point I would rather set something down on the ground than plan and dream... and plan and dream. ..Planning and dreaming doesn't get it done.

I have friends in Port-au-Prince. In the beginning of their dream they didn't plan too much or dream too long without taking action... instead they put something down on the ground. They took children in from the street.

Yes they created a problem for themselves in providing for these children who could have otherwise died in their poverty. But planning and dreaming until the perfect plan is laid out can also be a debilitating factor in the life of a vision.

David and Alicia Lloyd are heroes and champions for hurting and dying children in Port-au-prince, Haiti. They are the ones that didn't sit on a vision and let it simmer. They acted in faith and ran with it.

I remember talking with David, one day, about he and Alicia's hope to care for the orphans and abandoned and seemingly days later he invited the family over for dinner to meet his new children in his new orphanage... his house.!

He knew it wasn't perfect but he and Alicia knew that it was needed... the dying and starving children didn't have the time for the Lloyds to perfect the funding scenario or plann a perfect schematic for success.

David, Alicia, Davey and Hannah Lloyd Web-Page...

I wish you would contact them and send an encouraging word their way... if not a little donation to help them.

In like manner it is my belief that for our mission to the Dominican we need to get something of the vision on the ground. Something tangible.



We leave, God willing, in June to look for a lease opportunity near the North coast. We have people on the ground there looking for a house with ample land to put in gardens, fruit trees and room for animals. We have partners there ready to take up the cause of the abandoned children and hurting street children in the North of the country. William and Jacquie Gomez and his three wonderful daughters(Jesarella, Jasiel and Jasly) are the directors of Mercy league Dominican Republic. They are partners with us in our vision to support Dominicans caring for hurting children.

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Blessings to you,

Shane