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February 25, 2025

Dear Friends and Sponsors,

As I look through some of my photos from January, I am once again amazed at the full life we lead. We arrived back in the country January 6 after a few weeks in the US, traveling from South Carolina to Florida, to North Carolina and New Jersey, then back to Florida and up to South Carolina. A lot of driving! But a missionary has to see her children and grandchildren at least twice a year! We also mourned the death of my dad, Mike Diehl, who lived to be 97. He is missed every day and in our hearts forever.

We attended the national convention of the Assemblies of God, along with 1000 other ministers. You can see us with our missionary colleaues in the third photo. Three days a week I go out with my team, Rutherford and Elio, to visit the schools. In January we were busy delivering the 1250 bags of food given to us by an import food business in New Jersey, friends of our missionary friend Joseph Kim.

Is food a gift? Yes, and a good one. Everyone was so excited to receive their bag of rice, beans, oil, spaghetti, tomato sauce, salt and seasoning. We had the students line up to get their bag from the back of the van. The teachers were equally happy to take a bag of food home. One student was hugging his packet of spaghetti! These children are hungry for love, acceptance and yes, food. They come to school to learn, but also for that hot meal the cook prepares, thanks to you, our sponsors, Convoy of Hope and BGMC.

Thank you for praying for us, for your faithful giving, for helping with the toys. Every donation is needed and appreciated. In the next letter I will send you photos of the children with their gifts. They were very happy about that, too! Please help us pray for our visitors coming in March, from New Jersey, Iowa, South Carolina, Wisconsin and Montana. We will be delivering more presents, plus doing health measurements and checkups, school chapels and construction projects. It will be a very busy month.

You can send your tax-deductible donations right now at this link using your checking account or credit card. Checks can be written out to “Teach Feed Love” and sent to sent to TMCI, PO BOX 1761, Columbia, SC 29202. Thank you very much, and may God bless you richly and abundantly.

For the children,

Your missionaries Debbie and Mitch Martinez