Johnnie Orr:  

From: Orr's Email Subject: All who live here or have! All those who live on Refuge of the Pines (¿Refugio de los Pinos¿) Christian Ranch (23 full-time): Well, there is Johnnie James Orr born and raised in Wheatland, WY (12-26-64) and Vickie Ann Orr (Tucker/Moreland) born in Deer Park, WA (12-18-64), but raised in the Yakima area. We met at Platte Valley Bible College in Scottsbluff, NE and were married in Mitchell, NE 11-17-84. Then there are the ORR kids: Jordan James born (9-16-86) in Denver, CO, Jamie Marie born (2-8-88) in Greeley, CO, Jalynn Nichole born (2-2-91) in Greeley, CO, Jerin Bryce born (12-5-92) in Douglas, WY, and Sammie Martine (Sammie Raul Martinez) supposedly born (2-20-81) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, C.A., but his adoption took about four years starting sometime in 1994 and finalized in 1998. (I'm not accounting for our foster son Michael and his wife Darcie, three little girls, and baby boy, who are from and live in Greeley, CO.) We moved to El Hatillo (Tegucigalpa), Honduras Aug 8, 1993, where Johnnie taught school for two years and volunteered at a jouvenile detention center for boys. We then moved out to what is called the Mennonite Colony, just outside of Guaimaca, the 17th of March 2001. Mareli (28) and her three little ones, Junior (12/07/95), Janel (8), and Jacel (8) moved in with us after her husband Kike left her for another about 12/01 and moved back to Teguc. Dec. 2002. The year before that, they (she and the twins) were with us almost all the time anyhow. Junior returned to be with us to have more one on one schooling in 3/06. Anyhow, the next in line is Manuel Antonio born (9-8-87) in Tegucigalpa and his sisters, Bessy Yamileth born in Teguc (4-17-83) and Karla Elizabeth born (5-27-86). We have been working with these three at risk young people from a dysfunctional family and neighborhood since about Sept. or so of 2000, but Manuel started living with us in February 2002 (left after X-mas 2004 after his oldest brother was found dead on a University trip), Bessy the beginning of 2003 (married Jordan Nov.26, 2005), and Karla the beginning of 2005 (left Sept. 2006). Bessy and Karla were teachers to our next one in line, Wilmer Josue, at a private Christian school out here in Colonia Menonita. He was born in Catacamas (6-15-96), but then abandoned very malnourished in a Church of Christ orphanage (supposedly later developing Cerebral Palsy due to a high fever) and raised there for about seven years. That facility closed down the end of 11/02 and he moved in with us, because nobody would take him. He is adoptable from what we have been told. Then there is Merlin Yacquelin (8-9-90) stolen for sexual relations at age 11 by stepfather's brother (very common way here to get a woman {wife}, but he already had one). Both her and her sister Cinthia Yanoris (8-5-94) were born in San Juan de Flores, but moved in with us under protection since the end of Dec. 2002. The same day we went in to do the paperwork on these two, the vice-mayor/defense of minors asked us to take Stephanie Guadalupe (born in Guaimaca 8-25-01) under protection, whose mother was a 19yr. old prostitute and alcoholic drug user (who had tried to kill her a couple times). On Nov. 13th, 2003, Yacquelin decided she no longer wished to follow the rules and therefore said she thought it was best to take her to live with her father's family, so we obliged due to some severe problems with her anyhow (at 13 she felt she needed almost any and every man or boy who came into her path). When we took her to be with her father¿s side of the family 1/04, we met yet another little sister of hers, Bessy Yadira (1-20-96), which the family asked us to take her back with us to live. Almost a year before hand (2-3-03) Bayron Mixael (born in San Marcos de Colon 12-22-86), his brother Guillermo Enrique (9-21-88), brother Nelson Javier (4-17-90), and sister Yolanda Elizabeth (born in Tegucigalpa 7-18-94) came to be with us because their aunt had pulled them out of a large local orphanage where she felt they were being mistreated and wanted them with a family, since they had been primarily raised in orphanages. Their mother died about two years before we took them in due to AIDS, the father of the four oldest has not been part of their lives, and Yolanda's father is dead. Jose Luis (2-20-92) is another brother of theirs, who lived in our neighbor¿s children's home after running away from the orphanage, so we allowed Yolanda to go live with them so he wouldn't be without family there. His aunt 12-2-04 brought him to be with us, because he ran away from the neighbor's 13 times, but then after he had been with us for about 5 months, he ran away and we left it at that. After some very serious problems with Guillermo, he told us he would prefer to leave our family than to repent, so we let him go live with another older half brother in town 10-12-03 and then later with his dad. Several times during the first six months of 2006, he came asking for another chance, so after Philip Palmer left after visiting us for six months from the States, in July 2007 we gave him another chance (which lasted until Feb 2007). Jose Manuel (4-30-94) and his little brot...Expand for more