Hello! We're the Finchers from Nashville, TN. Check back here often to read about our adventures in our new life at the City of Children in Ensenada, Mexico.
© Jeff & Natasha Fincher
Nov
19
I enjoyed taking pictures of the American Kitchen before construction began, during construction, and afterwards. Below is a pictorial history of the evolution of the American Kitchen. However, I think the program is going to scramble the pictures. So see if you can get them in the right order:
Nov
15
I would like to introduce you to the newest members of our family. This is the Ramon family, comprised of 6 new children that we received this week:
Nov
15
This week we had two pizza parties (in addition to Natasha’s pizza party). David and Pat Jent hosted all of the teens in Stan and Carole’s house for pizza, popsicles, and cokes. While enjoying the pizzas, we all watched a movie.
Philip and Sandra Patterson (my favorite in-laws in the world) hosted all of the younger [...]
Nov
15
This past Thursday we celebrated Natasha’s third 30th birthday! We were blessed to have her parents come and visit for the week from Nashville, just as they did last year on her birthday. As part of the celebration, we decorated the house before we went to bed on Wednesday night.
The next morning we had a [...]
Nov
15
While working in our raised flower beds this week, Natasha discovered this little beauty. It might be the biggest caterpillar I have ever seen! He was chowing down on our tomatoes so Natasha said I couldn’t keep him. Besides, I don’t think that he and Webster (our dog) would have gotten along very well.
Nov
6
Today was a very interesting day here at the City of Children. I learned from Ricardo that these are called communion cookies:
If you can’t tell from the photo, those are communion crackers.
We also stood on our front porch and watched the president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, fly in on his presidential helicopter and inaugurate a [...]
Nov
5
This week, rather than the usual 4:30pm Bible class, the teenagers here at the home had a bonfire devotional. It was Jesus Lozano’s idea. Jesus grew up here at the home and went to preaching school in Torreon, Mexico (which is a 30 hour bus ride away in the main part of Mexico). When he [...]
Nov
5
On November 2, Mexico celebrates Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos). It is a holiday that began many years ago that celebrates the lives of those family members who have died. To celebrate, families will set up a shrine or alter in or around their homes that contain the photos of the deceased [...]
Nov
5
We are so blessed to have some really caring supporters of the City of Children. Bill and Jan Null contacted us last year about wanting to start a birthday card ministry. Their idea was to send a birthday card to each of the children living at the City of Children. Each of those birthday cards, [...]
Nov
1
Natasha and I celebrated Halloween yesterday here in Mexico. However, we were among the few. Halloween is not a highly touted holiday south of the border for many reasons. Diana Lara, who used to live here at the home and how has an 8 year old, told us that people don’t send their children out [...]
