Dick Rutgers serves alongside organizations such as Hope for Home in Guatemala. He demonstrates and communicates the Gospel of Christ by assisting children, widows, and individuals with physical needs through the provision of food, medicine, and wheelchairs, as well as in other ways as God provides.  You can read his story on his page on the Hope for Home Website

After a recent return to the area, Dick relayed how everything had been going quite well during his brief absence.  “César has been doing a wonderful job of carrying on the ministry while I was in the United States.  Since my return we have spent a lot of our time visiting with families that we have sponsors for.   Our main goal is to share the love of Christ with these families most of whom are widows with children and in some cases orphans that live with an aunt or grandparent.  A good part of that time has been revisiting families that we have been sponsoring with food and schooling.  We have several children that we sponsor that are either orphaned or live with single mothers that could not normally be in school because of the cost.”

God has been good
“Most of these families also receive food on a monthly basis.   We also do some fairly large food distributions with around 300 families per month that live up north who are going hungry.   Our work has been hampered a bit by the cartel and we have to really be careful especially up near the Mexico Guatemala border that we go into once a month.  God has been good and so far we have had no major problems with the cartel even though the cartel has pretty much taken over the borders.  Last week we had the privilege of giving a young lady a professionally fit prosthetic leg so that she can continue her studies.   We have stuck a little closer to home during the Christmas season and I have had a wonderful time visiting with families that I haven’t seen in quite some time.  Next week we plan on heading out on the road again and will probably be in the remote hill country for nearly two weeks.”

Prayer
“Prayer requests include that God will give us good health and strength. I’m now 79 … and find that my endurance isn’t quite what it was when I was a youngster of 70.  Pray also that we keep our focus on sharing Christ in words and deeds with the people that we encounter.   We’re happy to give out food medicine wheelchairs and help out with surgeries that are needed but we do not want what we are doing to be simply humanitarian.  Recently we did have to cut back a bit on that as I’m out of food that we give as prices for food have increased a lot.”

How can you help?
If you would like to support the ministry he is involved in:

Checks can be made payable to “Hope for Home Ministries,” with “Huehuetenango Ministry” listed in the memo line, and mailed to: PO Box 393, Troy, OH 45373

Donate Online: https://hopeforhome.org
with this direct link for the Huehuetenango Ministry

Let Dick know you are praying for him and how you would like him to use your financial gift!