Annabel de Vallejo Home2024-09-17T11:01:30-05:00

ANNABEL DE VALLEJO HOME

GUADALAJARA, MEXICO

ABOUT

On January 23, 1999, a church van was returning from a Bible conference when there was a fatal accident leaving 3 of our dear ladies dead and 12 injured. One was the 5-month-old bride of our Assistant Pastor Juan Manuel Vallejo and another was his mother. From the time of the accident until the time that I was able to arrive to the scene, Juan Manuel Vallejo won 33 souls to Christ including hard hearted policemen, ambulance helpers and people that stopped to see the accident, among others.

Juan Manuel knew that his mother and his bride were right with God and were in the center of God’s will. Juan Manuel and his wife, Annabel de Vallejo, had surrendered to go to Brazil as missionaries. Our church had voted one month before the accident during our mission’s conference to save up enough money to send them on a survey trip to Brazil before they went on deputation. Juan Manuel’s mother Consuelo de Vallejo was quite a soul-winner. The night before her home-going, waiting to get into the building for the Bible Conference, she was winning souls. The other lady, Rosa, was also a dear dedicated Christian.

The accident was no accident in God’s plans but Juan asked, “Pastor, why would God let this happen?” As I pondered this, I visited the hospital of the other injured. One young lady, 15 years old, named Gloria Ramirez was in a comma in the Intensive Care Unit and was not expected to live. She recuperated by God’s help and I talked to her. She told me, that she had no one to take care of her when she left the hospital. I began to tell her of the Lester Roloff homes that used to take care of girls like her. God then began dealing with me to help her and others like her.

I told Juan that maybe from this “accident” we could start a Home to help and to train young people. I told him that maybe God would use this Home to see these people live for God and maybe they would be responsible to see hundreds and maybe thousands saved. This is our purpose. Our motto verse is Psalm 68:6, “God setteth the solitary in families: He bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.” We hope to help people that have been left to themselves and to help people that have been bound in sin.

In March of 1999, I took Juan Manuel to Pastor’s School in my home church, The First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana; to get his mind off the accident. While we were there my preacher, Dr. Jack Hyles, called us into his office and wanted to know about the accident. Later in the week, he called us on the platform and told the story and gave us $5,000.00 as well as an offering to start the Annabel de Vallejo Home. He also started a scholarship in honor of Juan’s mother, Consuelo de Vallejo and another in Juan Manuel Vallejo’s name for one young man and one young lady to go to Hyles-Anderson College as long as the college and the Annabel de Vallejo Home are in existence.

We would appreciate your prayers and support for the Annabel de Vallejo Home.

Yours for Souls,

Missionary Robert Murillo

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Annabel de Vallejo Children’s Home Prayer Letter: Welcoming the New School Year

Annabel de Vallejo Children's Home Prayer Letter: Welcoming the New School YearPlease receive a cordial greeting from each of the children and Elijah Murillo. We are Juan Manuel and Betty Gomez, the house parents. We oversee the home, and we hereby want to share with you great things that God has done in this place. First, we would like to thank you greatly for being such a blessing to the Annabel de Vallejo Children’s Home and for taking the time to pray for us. We feel the love and greatly appreciate it.

This month of July, the Lord has blessed our home with three new girls; their names are Jaquel, Nadia, and Cristyl. Please continue to pray for workers who are willing to come to Mexico and help in the home. Whether it be seasonal, temporary, or even permanent, it would be such a blessing to us. These past two months of June and July have been filled with excitement. For example, it has rained much; we had been praying for rain because we planted some corn. The children are very happy to see the corn growing in the field, and Micol, the youngest of the home who just turned four, asks almost every day if he can have a piece of corn husk. All of the children are excited to get corn this year, and we can’t wait to share some photos with you all!

With the fall quickly approaching, we want to welcome the new school year. This past year was very new for our kids because they attended a private school. We were very concerned about the new school, but it turned out to be very flexible and respectful with education and religion. We are very blessed to have a good relationship with the principal; please help us pray that she would get saved. Despite our concerns with the new school, we saw so much growth and maturity in the kids this year. Several kids had the opportunity to compete academically with several other schools and made it to state! We were so excited for them! On graduation day, their teachers organized a festival in which the children participated. That same day, little Angel and Micol graduated from preschool, and Hector and Roberto graduated from elementary school.

We have two young boys who will be participating in a homeschool program this year; since they are entering middle school, we don’t want them to attend a public school for safety and educational reasons. Betty and I are amazed to see how the Lord provides these kids with the opportunity and ability to, even though they are orphans, have a good education. For that, we are so very grateful.

Our children would not be able to study if it were not for your support. We want to ask you to consider helping a child go back to school. It takes about $110 monthly for each child and $1,100 to send a child for the entire school year. We need a total of $15,000 to put all of the kids in school for this full year of school. This includes uniforms, registration, tuition, and school supplies. Please pray that the Lord would supply this need. Maybe you would like to be a part of this. If it were not for supporters like you, many of these kids would not be able to attend school. The children, my wife, and I pray that God would continue to bless you greatly.

One of the most important things for us in the home is when a child excepts Christ as their Saviour. My wife and I pray every day for the Annabel de Vallejo Children’s Home kids to receive Christ one day. One evening after playing some Christian music, God touched Cristyl’s heart. Our new girl received Christ into her heart, and we are very happy about that. The special thing about this moment is that Elijah Murillo had an opportunity to witness to Cristyl. This is one of our favorite parts to share with you all.

Our teen children got to attend youth meetings almost every Saturday this summer and attended church Youth Camp. We want to thank the Lord for the wonderful church where we congregate. The home is very active, and we appreciate the love and support from our church. We thank the Lord for Pastor Jiminez and his family for caring for the home. The girls got to attend a Ladies’ Missionary Conference where my former pastor’s wife, Mrs. Ruth Walker from Tijuana Baja, California, was the guest speaker. My wife was able to take four guests with her that day. This was such a great encouragement to her and to the girls of the home.

My wife and I would also like to share a little bit about what is taking place legally and with the government. In the past weeks, we have had several audits by the state and the state welfare. We thank the Lord for giving us another opportunity to be in favor with the government. Each year, they come and inspect to see if we can keep the home up and running. There is still some paperwork and some legal matters for which we are waiting, but we know that it is all in God’s timing.

In conclusion, we have several prayer requests and needs that we would like to ask for you to help us pray for and consider helping with.

First: The entrance to the children’s home property desperately needs some repairs. Because it is just dirt and rocks, it was washed down by the rain. This makes it difficult for any type of vehicle to drive up to the house on the property. We need your prayers that we would be able to pave the entrance with cement.

Second: We ask for your prayers since it has now been raining a lot. We are thankful for the rain, but it has become very windy. That strong wind has blown down our new light post. We thank the Lord for keeping our lights on, but we need to repair it or get a new light post.

Third: The home’s ceiling needs repairing. It has not been repaired in several years, and it has been leaking water during the rainfall. We desperately need to repair the ceiling.

Last: The Garlick Home, as you know, is almost ready for the children to move in, but we have some touches that we need to give the home. We need some wall repairs, along with some inside touches like kitchen cabinets, counters, paint, etc. This all must be done before we can call the city to inspect it and give us the okay for children to be living in this home.

Betty and I wanted to share this update about the Annabel de Vallejo Children’s Home with you. God has been so good to us and is with us through the difficult times and the times of change. We just want to thank you for all your support and prayers. The children, my wife, and I pray that God would continue to bless you greatly. Please keep us in your prayers.

Sincerely,

Juan Manuel and Betty Gomez
Philippians 4:13

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