El Oasis Farm Update: Stretching the Impact of Your Support

Thanks to your support, the El Oasis farm in Mexico continues to provide operating resources for the care of the children. As you will see in the infographic below, this is not a small operation, since it has over 70 acres in cultivation. It is an amazing undertaking as all the produce is picked by hand. Then the produce is carried by five-gallon buckets to waiting semi-trailers. The primary crop was jalapeño peppers, but there Read more…

Give and it Shall Be Given Back to You

Give and it Shall Be Given Back to You, Written by Pastor Rick Bowes “Give and it shall be given back to you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.” Luke 6:38 This morning, those familiar words of Jesus in Luke 6:38 nearly jumped off the page as I read them. They did so because at the same time I was reading the promise of Luke 6:38, I was also looking at three Read more…

Donation Report: Christmas Hope Matching Challenge

Because of the kind generosity of individuals like you, the Christmas Hope Matching Challenge is now met – and then some! One-hundred percent of the $123,500 challenge funds will be matched. In addition, kind-hearted and generous people continue to send in gifts that now nearly add up to $100,000 above the goal. At the time of this publication, the total you helped to raise for the children is $221,107. Because of the pandemic, mail continues Read more…

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2021 Week of Prayer for International Missions to Children

2021 Week of Prayer – January 25-30 Join us live at 2pm Pacific Standard Time. A Zoom link will be provided in the physical version of the Que Pasa. If you do not have access, but would like to attend, please contact the ICC office, 800-422-7729. You won’t want to miss the special presentations from ICC’s children, and getting to know more of the ICC family you lovingly support. Join ICC missionaries & supporters worldwide Read more…

Claribel’s Christmas Dinner – Creating Lasting Memories

“Still today, I remember the first Christmas I spent in the home.” Those were the touching words of Claribel as she recently reflected on what it was like when she arrived as a young girl at the Las Palmas Children’s Village in the Dominican Republic. Poverty has a way of sapping the joy from holiday celebrations. Claribel’s family was poor, and her parents weren’t together. She lived with her father who was very sick. Then, Read more…

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Los Pinos Children Celebrate Graduation

Thanks to the support of people like you, Los Pinos children celebrated an in-person graduation within the “safety bubble” of the secluded Children’s Village. Campus Graduation Takes Place within Safety of Village Your ongoing support of ICC children enables the kids to live a full life… even during a world-wide pandemic. One good example of this is the children at Los Pinos in Guatemala. These children are blessed that the Los Pinos campus is located Read more…

Year-End Giving: Only Three Days Left in 2020!

Your year-end gift is needed to help provide for the children. ICC children are eager! Eager to learn, love and be loved, eager to move forward and to grow and develop. Yet, as 2021 is about to begin, there is much uncertainty about what the future holds. Will their eagerness be tempered by economic crisis and budget shortfalls? Or will they be able to realize their hopes and dreams and move forward with energy and Read more…

Christmas at “The Gathering Place” Ep 4: Samilin Williams at Las Palmas

Support the children of ICC! Click here: In this special Christmas episode of The Gathering Place, Rick Fleck interviews Samilin Willams of the Las Palmas Children’s Village. Samilin is the administrator of Las Palmas. In this interview she tells of how the children of Las Palmas celebrate Christmas. In this interview, she shares the story of a young girl who experienced a Christmas feast for the very first time. Although, “Christmas at the Gathering Place” Read more…

Feliz Navidad!

Sandra, our director of children’s services in El Salvador, just wrote this update: “We are busily preparing and arranging things for Christmas, and the girls are enjoying doing the decorations with the guys. We will be getting together in the evenings before Christmas to sing carols, share reflections, and we will have a fire where we burn little thank-you notes, and do many other things. The presents are ready. We are just counting the days Read more…

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