Our June prayer letter

GCH kids help clean up a local school

Grace Babies Home Today

Dear Friends and Family,

It was in May of 2007 when God began to speak to our hearts about something new. The landowner of some property across the street approached us about buying a sizeable amount of land. Around that same time we were invited to the DIF (Mexican social services) shelter where kids are held until a placement can be found for them. We will never forget the section of the shelter where we saw about 45 babies being cared for by 3 workers.

Two months later, as we talked and prayed over coffee, God showed us exactly what He wanted us to do. He wanted us to go way out on a limb, buy the land and build a home for babies. While we knew we were in way over our heads, we knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that He wanted us to build Grace Babies Home. We then committed to the Lord and to each other to follow through on it. Within 24 hours of this commitment, the Lord provided enough money to secure the property… without us asking anyone for it!

Since that time, the land has been paid off, through the help of many generous donors. Retaining walls, fences, foundation, and a lot of framing have been done. We are grateful for the teams that have sacrificed of their time & talents to move construction along! It’s amazing to see what God is doing and see Him fulfill the vision He gave us. If you want to partner with us in our efforts, please call or email us. We’d love to help you get involved in this exciting project.

On the Grace Children’s Home side of the street, God continues to bless us as we see the children grow spiritually, academically, physically, etc. A couple weekends ago, we took most of our GCH children along with our Mexican home church, “Capilla Calvario Rosarito” (Calvary Chapel of Rosarito) to a school clean-up project. Several 5-gallon buckets of paint were used to cover all the graffiti on the exterior walls, and we also swept and cleaned up garbage. It was encouraging to watch our children enthusiastically serve God and their community in such a tangible way!

Finally, we ask for your continued prayers for GCH, the babies home, our children, our staff and our family. While God continues to bless and protect us, we know the enemy is working to discourage or hurt us. Please pray for God’s provision, protection, blessing on the children and all those who serve here. Pray for wisdom and endurance for us, especially in handling difficult situations. And praise God with us that His abundant care for us is evident all around!

Gratefully yours,

George & Stacey Palau

P.S. Please note our new mailing address for all correspondence and packages: 301 W. 28^th St., Ste. L, National City, CA 91950

Whoops! CHANGE that date!

We overlooked another big event happening the same day as we had planned for the 15era. Good thing we found out sooner rather than later.

In any case, please change the date of the 15era to Saturday, September 18 (instead of the 11th).

Hopefully we won't have to change it again!

SAVE THE DATE!!

On Saturday, September 11, we'll be celebrating our first 15era of Grace Children's Home. A 15era is a traditional and big coming of age event for young ladies. Our 3 eldest gals, Jennifer, Flor & Erika will all turn 15 over the next 6 months, and they have agreed to have a combined celebration in which they want to bring honor to God.
The service will be at our church, Calvary Chapel of Rosarito and the reception will take place at the Yugo Ranch in the early afternoon.
Since this is a big and costly event, we need sponsors to help us cover the costs of food, wardrobe for the girls, decorations, gifts, the cakes, etc. We also need folks to help set up, serve, clean up, etc.
For those of you that personally know these 3 gals or perhaps even sponsor them, we'd like you to know you are invited to celebrate with us on their special day. We may not be able to fit everyone in the church (or we might have to use the video over-flow room), but we can certainly have many at the reception. Let us know if you plan to come (gspalau@gmail.com). We'll keep you posted on the details.