Live Simply MMI Medical Clinic For Vunerable Families

For the last 2 weeks, Live Simply in partnership with MMI Perú Medical & Eye Clinic Team served over 900 vulnerable families with eye care, eye surgeries, dental care, prosthetic eyes, providing hope, dignity and the love of Christ ! Cristy and I were able to translate and share the Gospel in the prosthetic “glass eye” area at this year’s clinic. Meet our friend Gino and see the life change the Lord has given him with a “new” eye. Gino fell on a bottle at 3 and lost his eye, his single Mom traveled 4 hours by bus to help her son. Your love made this possible!

New Apartment Room at Orphanage

     Bienvenidos to our special needs orphanage ! Follow me up the stairs to our new room. We were able to clean out this room, fix up our mini kitchen with propane stove & microwave. We grabbed new kids sheets for our beds while we serve here. 

     Its so cool, every morning the kids stand outside our room calling for us to come downstairs. We help with morning snack before school. We ended this day with our single Mom Irma having dinner in our room. Lights out at 700pm for the kids as we crawl into our Looney Tunes bed for some rest. We are humbled by the Lord’s provision and love. We will be serving in an eye clinic over the next two weeks, pray for the gospel to be heard by everyone during this Christ centered event. We will be able to get help for each special need and single mom family we serve during this outreach. 

     We are thankful for your help allowing us to share life here. 

     

Our Beloved Briana Surgery Update: Praying she may walk one day!

BREAKING NEWS!!! We just received some great news for our beloved Briana, we are moving forward already with her needed surgery ! We have been scrambling to make this happen, renting the room, equipment, purchasing the supplies …….Dr. Romero is willing to schedule this surgery immediately (May 17, 2024) due to delicate condition and our Live Simply relationship. Briana will have surgery for her hip dysplasia and her club foot right during the same procedure. Originally the plan was to use a casting method to correct the club foot but Dr. Romero is advising surgery is needed due to her age and the severity of the foot, then a series of casting solutions.

Remember, Dr. Romero is considered a world class surgeon from Lima, Peru (which is 20 hours away!) He has a waiting list of almost 200 for his surgery expertise with children. He blessed our Dominic 2 years ago, turning his backwards knees around forward allowing him to walk! He also did Dante’s surgery last year on his hip to fix and correct failed surgeries performed by lesser skilled surgeons. Dante is now beginning to walk with a walker and only a brace on his lower leg.

Your help allowed Live Simply to assist with her successful Spina Bifida surgery! We now are focused on funding this hip and club foot surgery for Briana. This is a life changer for Briana, just the possibility of walking is incredible! Her single Mom Yesenia cannot even begin to cover the cost but we trust this is the Lord’s will. Yesenia is working and now living with her Mom/Grandma now to save money. Unfortunately, she is not receiving support for the procedure from Briana’s father since he abandoned  them. We appreciate your love and last minute support for this beautiful little girl.

Join us in prayer to help make this dream  and  life changing surgery come true! We have detailed breakdown of all costs for her surgery. Let’s pray Briana will be able to walk one day!


Serving 72 Disabled/Special Needs Single Mom Families

Live Simply for Orphans feeding program is now serving 72 disabled/special needs families with monthly food rations in vulnerable areas with your help. We hand deliver to each home allowing us to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. During each visit, we complete an assessment of the living conditions, medical needs, spiritual needs and goals we have targeted for each family. We access the needs monthly along with medical care and local church support/attendance. Your support helps make this happen!

FLASHBACK to my First Mission Trip to PERU!

2008: Davy & Dad went on our first mission trip to the Amazon Peru!

2011: Cristy & Maisie became full time missionaries running boys orphanage in Characato, Peru.

2013: Live Simply for Orphans was born & became 501(c) 3 !

January 30, 2016: Dave walked his job and the American dream to be missionary to street kids/mentally challenged and the disabled in Peru.

Celebrating Ten Years of Live Simply for Orphans Inc!

January 1, 2024

Dear Live Simply for Orphans  Family,

We just want to thank everyone for the love, prayers and support for over a decade now! Our Ministry may not be very glamorous or popular in the eyes of the world, we may not fit the traditional mold for Missionaries, but we truly do rescue the abandoned and forgotten. The mentally challenged & physically disabled are still treated as cursed or as a result of family sin here, many times abandoned, locked in rooms without value or purpose. We have become the voice for the mentally challenged & disabled in our orphanage and surrounding community, we are their advocate. We live to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. We have roots here, and more than anything, we have embraced this community for over 10 years loving the unloved!

  • Our special needs orphanage is a privately donor funded Christ centered home for 35 abandoned kids with multiple, severe disabilities. This home only receives kids with no family in total abandonment. All are mentally challenged with many severe cases. We share life with 8 wheel chair bound kids, 2 with walkers, 2 that crawl, 5 blind kids, 2 quadriplegics, 2 with microcephaly and 8 severely mentally challenged. Twenty nine of our children have no ability to communicate. We have a school for our kids and the surrounding special needs/disabled community at the orphanage. We have a Deaf Center Class as well, any given school day we have about 70 special needs and disabled kids being loved! We share daily life with the least of these…..

  • Live Simply for Orphans has our feeding program now serving 76 disabled/special needs families with monthly food rations in vulnerable areas. We hand deliver to each home allowing us to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  During each visit, we complete an assessment of the living conditions, medical needs, spiritual needs and goals we have targeted for each family. We access the needs monthly along with medical care and local church support/attendance.

  • Since 2019, we have organized and funded three Free Dental Clinics each year exclusively for our Special Needs/ Disabled Families in our community/city dump/local church with 60 families participating.

  • Since 2019, we have partnered with MMI Peru (Medical Ministry International) providing a two week Eye Clinic and Eye Surgery for our Special Needs/ Disabled and vulnerable families.  

  • Since 2019, we partner with Wheels for the World Clinics with Joni & Friends every April and October providing life-changing mobility along with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We have distributed over 700 wheelchairs and the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

It’s All LOVE!

Dave & Cristy