WELCOME TO SHALOM IS MY HOME!!

THANK YOU FRIEND KAISU AND TAPAN FROM FINLAND

2010-09-12T16:00:00.000-07:00

HAPPY DAY - BIRTHDAY AUGUST!

2010-09-12T15:35:00.000-07:00

BASEBALL CHAMPIONS OF SUCRE

2010-09-12T14:25:00.000-07:00

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Family Longvastol from Norway

2010-07-15T15:51:00.000-07:00

Thank you to family Longvastol for spend time with us. God bless you.

SEE YOU SOON METTE!!!!

2010-07-14T09:00:00.000-07:00

Mette Haland was working in Home for long two years. it was great time to have to her with us. She back Norway her home last week and we say "thank you for all you did" We hope we will see you her again.

TENNIS!!!!! THANK YOU - COUCH METTE

2010-07-11T07:20:00.000-07:00

LAST YEAR IN THE SCHOOL

2010-07-09T14:25:00.000-07:00

Jus i want to ask for your prayers for this yungers who will be finished the school this year.

JUNE BIRTHDAY!!!

2010-07-09T05:45:00.000-07:00

Edgar, Moises, Bernardino, Marco, Marcelino, Teresa, Christian, Juan Alberto, Benita and Roxana.

VOLEIBOL

2010-06-13T07:56:00.000-07:00

In this oportunity we have to Marte Longvastol for one month she come to work in Shalom and teach how to play voleiboll to the teenegers. They very exiting about it.

THE DAY IN DAY THE KIDS IN BASEBALL DOING WONDERFULL

2010-06-12T19:19:00.000-07:00

TENEEGERS AND RESIDENCIAL BIRTHDAY!!!

2010-06-12T19:06:00.000-07:00

BEISBALL TEAM SHALOM WITH COUCH - GABRIEL

2010-05-31T06:51:00.000-07:00

GOOD PLAYERS

2010-05-31T06:44:00.001-07:00

BLESSING DAY!!!

2010-05-10T12:20:00.000-07:00

God blessing us with a friends from Santa Cruz city. They bring jackets for all kids and workers for this winter. We enjoy with them in a nice place out to Sucre call Las siete cascadas. Where there are a pool, place for cook and for play.
We are thank full to them for how give us a great dat.

BLESSING DAY!!!

2010-05-10T11:58:00.000-07:00

APRIL BIRTHDAY!!!

2010-05-06T09:48:00.000-07:00

APRIL BIRTHDAY!!!

2010-05-06T09:27:00.000-07:00

BIRTHDAY MARCH

2010-04-16T14:55:00.000-07:00

GOING TO THE SCHOOL

2010-03-06T14:43:00.000-08:00

BASEBALL TEAM

2010-03-05T16:02:00.000-08:00

BIRTHDAYS - FEBRUARY

2010-03-04T16:51:00.000-08:00

TEAM FROM MD AND WV VISITING HOME

2010-02-22T11:41:00.000-08:00

GOD IS SO GOOD

2009-12-07T02:42:00.000-08:00

THANK YOU FOR ALL WHO WAS PART OF LIVE FOR MARGARITA AND ANDRES. THEY LAST WEEK FINISHED THEM HIGHT SCHOOL.

WITH JESUS EVERYTHING IT IS POSIBLE

2009-12-01T06:38:00.000-08:00

With God the druiming is posible. In this case for Alejandro who grow up in Shalom is my Home. Now she graduated from University UNIDAD in Sucre, Bolivia. His pasion is prech the gospel. He is looking for a be missionary now. Thank you all friend who support to him in your prayers. God bless you so much.

2009-11-28T03:47:00.000-08:00

SHalom es mi Casa give good and juices like 300 poor, workers and streets kids in two areas diferentes in Sucre. Thank you for be part for this proyect. God bless you so much. Enjoy with Slide pictures.

THINKING IN OTHERS

2009-11-28T03:38:00.000-08:00

KINDER GARDEN - GRADUATION

2009-11-27T04:37:00.000-08:00

2009-11-27T04:24:00.000-08:00

TRIP TO POTOSI

2009-11-21T06:16:00.000-08:00

HAPPY DAYS!!!

2009-09-24T14:18:00.000-07:00

2009-09-24T14:15:00.000-07:00

IN PARQUE BOLIVAR!!

NICE PICTURE´S

2009-09-23T15:56:00.000-07:00

METTE HALAND FROM NORWAY WILL WORK IN SHALOM ONE YEAR. SHE IS GOOD PHOTOGRAF. ENJOY WITH SOME PICTURES FROM KIDS.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

2009-08-27T13:53:00.000-07:00

DEDICATION OF CHILDREN: In 08 may we have a great service in Home. We had DEDICATION OF CHILDREN. God blessing the kids and houseparents.

2009-06-03T09:08:00.000-07:00

SUNDAY AFTHERNOON WITH VOLUNTARIES FROM NORWAY

2009-04-04T12:15:00.000-07:00

2009-04-04T11:43:00.001-07:00

In second sunday of april we went to out of city - This place call LAS SIETE CASCADAS. The kids was happy.

DAY IN OUT OF SUCRE!!!

2009-04-04T11:32:00.000-07:00

GREAT DAY... WITH KIDS HOUSE 6

2009-03-19T16:17:00.000-07:00

SUNDAY AFTHERNOON

2009-03-06T13:17:00.000-08:00

GOING TO THE SCHOOL --- FIRTH DAY IN THE SCHOOL

2009-02-04T09:24:00.000-08:00

PRAYING IN NEW HOME

2009-01-29T16:12:00.000-08:00

DAYS IN SHALOM

2009-01-09T09:43:00.000-08:00

GOD IS GOOD... THE BEST STUDENT FROM SCHOOL.

2008-12-18T12:01:00.000-08:00

Patricia Graduation from High School

2008-12-16T10:37:00.000-08:00

NICE DAY

2008-12-15T03:33:00.000-08:00

THE LAST DAY IN SCHOOL.... NOW THE KIDS IN SUMMER VACATION

2008-12-01T02:47:00.000-08:00

HOME: SEED OF HOPE

2008-11-24T15:12:00.000-08:00

GRADUTED FROM KINDER GARDEN

2008-11-24T09:54:00.000-08:00

SOME NEW FACES IN SHALOM

2008-08-18T10:47:00.000-07:00

THE LIFE CHANGE ...

2008-08-17T19:33:00.000-07:00

SOCCER CHAMPION FROM BOLIVIA - UNIVERSITARIO VISITING SHALOM

2008-07-22T10:16:00.001-07:00

BACK TO SCHOOL

2008-07-21T14:33:00.001-07:00

The kids went back to school this week, after one month winter vacation.

Blessing from Arkansas!

2008-07-07T15:37:00.000-07:00

Ronny Hoover who is Kai Alpha Director from Arkansas, came this year to work with the State University students and wanted to do something for the home. Last year he make friends with the lead players of the Baseball team here in Sucre. We saw that there are people wanting to push Baseball as a sport here in Bolivia since Football is a rough sport and not at all for girls. We felt that if the kids got in on the ground floor they would have an advantage in a new growing sport. Ronny came to teach them and brought all of the equipment and donated it to the home.

TENNEGERS IN WINTER VACATION!!!

2008-07-03T15:09:00.001-07:00

Winter vacation!!!

2008-07-01T16:42:00.000-07:00

My Dear Friends...

2008-06-10T16:57:00.000-07:00

We wish to share with you the blessings from our Lord Jesus. Shalom II-Seeds of Hope is becoming a reality. You can see from the slides that we they are being finished. These first two houses are daily taking form. Thanks to our friends from Maryland and West Virginia (USA) for their great love for the kids and being a part of the construction of these new houses destined for kids without a home.

SHALOM II - SEEDS OF HOPE

2008-06-08T17:24:00.001-07:00

GREAT DAY -2

2007-12-25T18:51:00.001-08:00

One day in the amusement park

2007-12-25T15:06:00.000-08:00

Last week we took all of the kids to an amusement park in the city. The kids was having a great time, they was smiling and laughing all day. The kids was in the amusement park all morning and we did not have to pay. The kids have vacation from the school now, so it is boring for them to be in Shalom all day. Therefore we try to take them out on different activitys outside Shalom so they can meet other kids to.

KID´S SHALOM

2007-12-01T20:41:00.000-08:00

New volunteers

2007-11-13T12:54:00.001-08:00

Last week came three new volunteers to Shalom who will be working with the kids until March. They are Elisabet, Birgitte and Tove from Norway.

Great memories

2007-01-25T05:22:00.000-08:00

Marte and Anette thank you for giving the kids your time and for your money, and for giving the kids a lot of happiness and love. Thank you for being a part of our lives. You will always bee
in the memories of the children here. From all the kids in Shalom.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hogarshalom/sets/72157594497502332/

Marte and Anette

2007-01-19T08:55:00.000-08:00

Thank you very much for coming to Shalom, and for all the things you helped us with in the two month you where here.
Hope to se you again.

Team from Okland, Maryland and West Virginia USA

2007-01-17T05:33:00.000-08:00

Thank you for comming. We had a great time when you where here.

GROUP PICTURE 2006

2007-01-16T10:04:00.000-08:00

The Nature of Shalom

2006-09-26T13:42:00.000-07:00

Having covered the mission and vision statements of Shalom in a previous post, now is time to share Shalom´s statement on it´s own nature . . .

Nature of the Institution

In the past few years, the population of children in situations of risk has increased greatly in the city of Sucre. Statistical data of the department of Defence of The Child and The Adolscent report that due to diverse circumstances children are orphaned, mistreated, subjected to irresponsibility of their parents, poverty, abandoned - overflowing the capacity of the institutions designated to give protection and care to these children.

In this circumstance, our institution, having observed the grave necesidad to rescue this population and bring them protection, offering them the possibility of a better future, was seen as a motivation to fund and create a space designated to receive and give protection to all children who are passing a difficult time in their home and family.

Dear readers . . . .

2006-09-21T09:50:00.000-07:00

Hi folks. Just a note on the purpose of this site - It is here to better communicate with you the happenings at Shalom, particularly for the sponsers of the children in the Home, and other english-speaking people who have an interest in Shalom, many of whom are in the United States, and some others even further afield. If you are not familiar with blogging, you might not know that you can use this blog also to communicate with us! You can follow the ´comments´ link at the bottom of each post to leave a comment on that post. We´d love to hear from you, so let us know any comments you have on Shalom, what sort of thing you would like to see on this site, and so on.

Vision and Mision

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Shalom´s Vision Statement is:

¨To promote a leadership for the government of the country and the preaching of the word of God.¨

In line with this, there is a real focus in the Home of teaching God´s gospel to each child, both with words and actions. All of the ´adoptive parents´ of the Home, the Directors, and other staff (paid and volunteer) are Christians, and many are involved previously or currently in pastoral work. The children are taught the Bible in their homes, and also though a Sunday shcool in the home. One sunday per month, each of the children is taken out for the day by a ´uncle´ or ´aunt´ to go to church with them and spend the day with their family. The children also attend Christian schools. Academic education is also extremely important in developing preachers, evangelists, leaders and missionaries. Currently there are two young men who have grown up in Shalom who are now studying at a theological college in Sucre, aspiring, by the grace of God, to be missionaries.

Shalom´s Mission Statement is:

¨To develop a good image of our country in the hearts and minds of our children and adolescents so that they understand the importance of the preaching of the word of God to all the world.¨

On a personal note . . and in writing a personal note, I really should introduce myself. Although there will in future be other contributors to this blog, the current author is Kerri, a short-term missionary from Australia whom is mainly working with a different project in Sucre, but having fallen in love with Shalom - the kids and the staff-workers - I´m helping out by visiting and helping in the houses, playing with the kids, and setting up this blog.

So . . on a personal note, as someone who has entered from outside the Home, I can testify that even in the kids that have recently entered the Home having previously lived on the street, I can see the way God is working in their lives though the commited, loving Christians who are caring for them. Even the youngest kids greet me with ´Que Dios te bendiga´ (May God bless you) and an affectionate hug and kiss.

Photo: Sandra is the youngest resident, 4 years old

Photos, photos, photos . . . .

2006-09-12T14:20:00.000-07:00

Just a note to explain what we are doing about photos on this site - while we will be putting some photos up on the blog, there are also many others we would like to give you the opportunity to see if you are interested, so, we´ve linked a site with ´flickr´ to this blog - you can use the link on the right-hand panel. We´ve also put there links to the specific photo sets, of history (year group photos), lots of different photos of the kids, and the infrastructure of Shalom itself.

Enjoy looking!