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I met Hermana Elma on my spring break trip to Mexico in 2007; the trip that started my entire non-profit and ministry and sent my life on the path that it’s been on now for the last 3 years. Hermana Elma runs the orphanage, Casa Hogar M.A.Mi. in Reynosa Mexico and has been taking caring of the girls there for a long time. She LOVES those girls more than I can explain and it’s so amazing to see how much she’s given to care for them and give them a loving home when they don’t have one on their own.

The orphanage has grown so much since the first trip and there are many more girls there since that week back in 2007 when we visited. Now they’ve moved up to a second floor, added computers and new beds, and Hermana Elma even has her own apartment on the second floor so that she can stay there full time with the girls when she’s not living at her own home back in Texas. She may be one of the most caring and loving people that I’ve ever met, and I’m so grateful that I have gotten to spend time getting to know her over the past 3 years. I was so excited when I found out that my first assignment for Times Square Church was to travel back to her orphanage and work there in Reynosa for a few days.