We’ve taken many steps of faith since the founding of Reina’s Hope at the end of 2016. In 2017, we purchased the land for the Aguas Sagradas ranch, home to the Reina's Hope ministry. In 2021, we broke ground on the first home and started major electrical and sewer infrastructure projects to accommodate future "casita" builds…

Reina’s Hope is the bridge.

As girls and young women age out of the orphanage system in Mexico, they are often just turned out onto the streets. Without a full education, family support, or sufficient personal resources, they find themselves fighting to survive.

Casita #2 is almost ready! Watch the video to check out this beautiful casita that will become home to many young women aging out of orphanages and searching for restoration.

Meet Estefania, our new Program Director!

Estefania’s objective and all of Reina’s Hope’s programs are designed with the intention to restore a sense of self-worth and instill hope in these young women. To help them see themselves as God sees them, His precious daughters, worthy of self respect, created by God and endowed with priceless value. Everything that has been built, and every program and every activity here at Reina's Hope is designed to reinforce this sense of value and self-worth in these women.

Since the founding of Reina’s Hope, God has paved the way for us to acquire a beautiful ranch, build an initial home and a second casita, and prepare the property to welcome young, at-risk women aging out of orphanages in Mexico.

Now, the time has come to take the next step. In 2024, we will welcome our first young women to come live on the ranch.

Celeste, Reina, and I were definitely blessed this past month to have a team of young adults at the ranch from our home church, including our daughter, Audra. But it was also delightful to observe how blessed our ranch manager, Arturo, seemed to be during that week working with them.

The other day I sat back and watched Celeste and Reina in the kitchen working together making a key-lime pie (One of Celeste’s dad’s favorites!). A couple of weeks ago they were in similar positions whipping up a batch of Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter cookies.

The Aguas Sagradas Ranch covers about 15 acres; however, it’s divided in half by a year-round stream that runs through it lengthwise. This means almost half of the ranch was rendered inaccessible, except for the cattle and others who were willing to forge the stream.

It’s Reina writing here this time. I wanted to comment on how Reina’s Hope has been such a blessing to my life. It is a place where I can find peace. It is a refuge for me, where I can reflect on just how good and faithful God has been to me.

As we look forward to welcoming our first girls to the ranch, we do so with certain anticipation, but also with an appropriate level of anxiety for all that this entails.

But when we reflect on all the Lord has done thus far, we walk forward trusting in the great things we know He has prepared in advance for us and these young ladies.

Have you ever been to a 100-year old’s birthday party? I can’t say I had until this past month.

It's been a wild and crazy few weeks since I last wrote to you. I flew back to California earlier this month to take care of some client matters for my legal practice, get a root canal, have a medical check up and (for The Best Part) fly back here with our daughters, Audra and Riley, who came down to visit us in Chiapas for a couple of weeks.

We arrived back on the ranch to discover that our building crew had kind of lost interest once we left the property. They made some mistakes - not grave ones - just some that set our project behind. Our perfectionist architect, Felipe, fired them all and brought on a brand-new team.

There are certain family events that you just don't want to miss. Our youngest daughter's graduation from University was certainly one of those.

t’s hard to believe Michael and I have been living here on the ranch for a month now! We’ve moved into our little casita and have made it into a cozy home. I am delighting in being here and in my new home on this healing and very peaceful ranch. I can’t imagine leaving.

Do you know that you can provide financial support to Aguas Sagradas/Reina's Hope and it will cost you nothing?

Every quarter we receive a donation directly from Amazon based on the purchases made by those who use the "Smile.Amazon" log-in and designate Aguas Sagradas as their selected charity.

We have made the move!

It's been a work in progress, but we are now officially residents of the Aguas Sagradas Ranch, in Las Margaritas, Chiapas Mexico.