April 19, 2007.- Jorge Anchorena and Maria Gonzalez are husband and wife who are in their forties. They have two kids, Antonella (13) and Esteban (11). Maria and her children attend the Sunday school program and the church services at the Renacer Methodist Camp Center. Maria was expecting a baby, but she had a very difficult pregnancy. When she was close to delivery, Ms. Cecilia Perez (Sunday school program coordinator) and I took her for her medical check up at the local hospital (she had to move from the camp center area to the city – 5.50 miles - because there is no bus from there). But she was hospitalized because the baby had some problems. After two days in the hospital, a little girl was born. Maria didn’t have a name for her, and she decided to call her – MILAGROS – which translates: “Miracle”. This little girl faced many obstacles for her existence, but God has a special plan for her life. Because Milagros was underweight, jaundice and had some problems keeping her neck straight, she had to remain for a week in the hospital with her mom. From the kids to the adults, all were praying for her that Sunday. MILAGROS is at home now, she is healthy and her mom and dad are enjoying this new gift from God. Saturday, May 26, 2007
Milagros...a real "Miracle"
April 19, 2007.- Jorge Anchorena and Maria Gonzalez are husband and wife who are in their forties. They have two kids, Antonella (13) and Esteban (11). Maria and her children attend the Sunday school program and the church services at the Renacer Methodist Camp Center. Maria was expecting a baby, but she had a very difficult pregnancy. When she was close to delivery, Ms. Cecilia Perez (Sunday school program coordinator) and I took her for her medical check up at the local hospital (she had to move from the camp center area to the city – 5.50 miles - because there is no bus from there). But she was hospitalized because the baby had some problems. After two days in the hospital, a little girl was born. Maria didn’t have a name for her, and she decided to call her – MILAGROS – which translates: “Miracle”. This little girl faced many obstacles for her existence, but God has a special plan for her life. Because Milagros was underweight, jaundice and had some problems keeping her neck straight, she had to remain for a week in the hospital with her mom. From the kids to the adults, all were praying for her that Sunday. MILAGROS is at home now, she is healthy and her mom and dad are enjoying this new gift from God. 
Disastrous flooding in Uruguay
May, 2007.- Durazno, Mercedes and Treinta y Tres are some of the cities that were affected by the flooding.The Uruguayan Methodist Church has congregation in two of these affected cities. And it has began a solidarity campaign by the Crandon Institute of Montevideo to help the people of these cities. Read the following report:
Uruguay has declared a national disaster after flooding forced the evacuation of thousands of people and caused millions of dollars in losses.
Some 12,000 people have been forced from their homes since heavy rains that began last week causing rivers to overflow from their banks across much of the country.
Flooding was most severe in the central city of Durazno, where half of those forced from their homes were located - some 20 percent of Durazno's population.
But many other areas as well as roads and bridges have been cut off, and water, power and telephone links brought down.
The floods have wrecked homes, businesses and crops, causing endless financial losses.
"We'll have to wait for the waters to go down to make an estimate of the damages," Vice Minister of Transportation and Public Works Luis Lazo told the newspaper Ultimas Noticias.
The disaster declaration will allow the government to release USD 45m in emergency funds, but the government was to seek help as well from the Inter-American Development Bank and the UN Development Program, officials said.
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