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.