This will be our newsletter this month on sad circumstances, I have received a call from Earl and Gabe this afternoon, we were robbed in our home in the D.R., Earl and Gabriel were in church this morning when someone decided to help themselves to our things, when Earl arrived home this afternoon, he found our living room filled with lots of sunshine, he felt something was wrong, as he continued to look around he found our living room window busted out, the robbers used something very heavy to break the concrete window and pulled the bars out along with it, we now have a huge hole in the wall.

 Earl and Gabriel are fine, but stirred up some, many things were stolen, robbers took our lap top computer that Earl uses for school business, Earl's camera, all the computer things like the card reader, the additions that go along with the computer, his computer bag, along with our important papers inside that allows Gabriel to come home to the states, our DVD player, my portable CD player, my portable cassette player, and many many more things, they tried to take the pazola, but for some reason they decided not too! They even had the nerve to take Gabriel's pillow case off his bed,  to put some things into to climb out over the wall. 

We are grateful to God that no one was hurt, Earl is beside himself tonight, we are asking for your prayers tonight and the rest of this week to get answers to this robbery. The sad thing was, Earl had to pay the police officer to come and write a police report. We are sure this robbery will never be solved, but we pray that God will punish the ones who did this.

If you would please pray that God will supply Earl with a used laptop to continue his work , that their safety will be supplied, as of this moment, his work in the D.R. will be on HOLD. There will be no pictures for those of you who read this newsletter, he worked very hard on the photos he took when he made the tables and benches, he had the children painting them, we lost all of our pictures.  

Thank you for your prayers and all you do for God ministry, keep Earl and Gabriel lifted up at this time,  I will be writing again when things get settled down. God Bless each and everyone of you.  I will be traveling there on Sunday, October 31st,  please pray for traveling mercies.  All for the love of Jesus, Shirley

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