The month of December has been a whirlwind of spreading Christmas cheer and showing Christ's love on the precious kids that we serve. The month started off with the women's group coming down with suitcases filled with presents, decorations, crafts and all things Christmas. Over the course of the week we have the privilage to visit each Casa Hogar that we work with and set up a tree and make ornaments and give each child their own Christmas gift! What a blessing it was to see the joy and excitement in the children's faces as they opened up their gifts and worked together to decorate their trees.
I will never forget one sweet little boy, Santiago, opening up his present of a huge dog stuffed animal and coloring books and markers, but the thing he was most excited about was the small tube of travel toothpaste. When he saw the toothpaste his eyes got wide and he gasped and he held it like it was a priceless treasure. The rest of the day he carried that tube with him where ever he went. This made me really sit back and think about how much I take things for granted, especially around Christmas, when there is an abundance of blessings everywhere I look.
Santa's Workshop! It requires alot of Christmas cookies to feed 500 kids!
The presents are wrapped and ready to go!
The presents are wrapped and ready to go!
Decorating the tree! 
Danny loved my candycane ears! When I bent down to give him a hug he pulled them right off my head and tried to eat them! He thought they were real candycanes! haha I love him!
The biggest blessing of all... MY MOM CAME TO VISIT!! She stayed with me and spent the weekend serving with the other women. How wonderful it was to be able to share this experience with her and show her what I do and where I live!
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The mission of Back2Back is to provide care for today and hope for tomrrow to the abandoned and neglected children of Monterrey, Mexico. One way we do that is through the care of orphans and supporting the children's homes that they live in. Another way that we carry out this mission is through serving the families who live in poverty in numerous squatter villages around the city. If we are able to provide support and education for these families, they will be able to provide for their children and our prayer is that this is preventing the creation of more orphans.
The Rio is one of the squatter villages that we work in, and last weekend I was blessed to be able to help out in throwing a Christmas party for the families that live there! I adore these kids!
Christmas is truely a time of joy, genorosity, peace and restoration. Priase the Lord for the hope that he provides for these children who have so little. I am honored to be able to love on them and help them understand the reason behind the gifts, crafts, cookies and parties.
I pray that you are resting in the hands of the One who came 2,000 years ago so that we could experience a love unlike any the world had ever known!
Merry Christmas!
Jessica
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