The serving year | Estado 29 Orphanage, Baja California

Every few years a volunteer hears God calling them to live at Estado 29 to serve the children and staff full time.

K.Wylin heard that call and late in 2009 he moved to the orphanage, staying for more than a year. While there he taught English, mentored the kids and helped out wherever help was needed.

Now back in the states and with a renewed passion for "seeking God and living for Him through every song and every show" he has written and recorded a new album expressing "life, struggles, and triumphs through that perspective."

Thanks for connecting with Estado 29. Whether you’ve purchased an album or are simply discovering this page, welcome. My name is K. Wylin. I do gospel-based hip-hop. In early 2009 I took some time off from music to serve in Mexico at an orphanage about 20 minutes outside of Ensenada in Baja California. I left my job, my home, and what was known to put my life and trust completely in God’s hands. I say that not to brag about my faith but to boast in His faithfulness. It was a time of growth for me as a man and in my walk with Jesus Christ. It also gave me time to dig deeper into God’s word and gave me a true hunger to know Him more. Speaking of hunger, I definitely lost some weight on the orphanage diet. Ha! But God was so faithful to provide my needs. My hope is that I was able to leave something behind and have an impact on the kids and the workers. Estado 29 is a place where children who have been abused or neglected have the opportunity for clean water, food, schooling and the chance to discover a new life in Jesus Christ. I hope something in these pages stirs your heart and you are able to connect with Estado 29. There are several opportunities to get involved from awesome visits, financial support, or much needed prayer. Thanks for stopping through and welcome to Estado 29. God bless, K. Wylin

	One of K. Wylin's updates from Estado: What up everybody? What a journey it has been in my time here. First I want to say thank you to all of you who made it possible through your generous donations and fervent prayers. What started as a two-month gift of service here in Mexico turned into over a year’s worth of work and ultimately a faith adventure financially and truly in all aspects. I will be heading stateside in early October [of 2010]. I will arrive: broke, jobless, and full of faith in what God has planned for me. Several new projects are in works at the orphanage. A visiting group helped us start a new two-story building down where we used to hang our laundry. When finished the director hopes that it will eventually serve as a nursery for infants who are abandoned by their parents or don’t have someone to care for them properly due to drugs, or abuse.
There’s never a dull moment at the E. Like the time when someone tried to steal our copper tubing from our gas line. They cut it one night while we were asleep, and in the morning at breakfast there was no gas to cook. We discovered the tube had been cut. Praise God no one was hurt, the police were notified and the tube was quickly repaired by a few of the workers. The copper tubing runs along the outside wall on one side of the orphanage. One night, before they had a chance to move the tubing to the inside, I came out of my room and smelt gas really strong. I notified the supervisor at the time and me and another worker went to check it out. Sure enough it had been cut yet again. We shut off the gas and notified the police. We kept a close watch on the line until a few orphanage workers released the tubing and moved it to the other side of the wall. The copper tubing is valuable to thieves because it can be used for drug paraphernalia.
	In my final weeks here Deborah the director has put me in charge as supervisor. Basically I was announced as second in command to her. Which has been a huge responsibility. We had a great meeting with the workers and Deborah asked me to take the position. We have been working to unify the workers as a team, unite the kids as a family and improve the ways in which we operate. No easy task but I hope we can plant something that will reap harvest in the future. We are striving to fulfill the vision and remind ourselves of why we are here: To love the kids, to serve them and to instruct them in the things of God, ultimately pointing them to a relationship with Jesus Christ and a changed life through Him. The work here is not easy and the kids can be more than a handful.
From the classroom to the emergency room, from horse poop to gun point, it’s definitely been an adventure. There have been ups and downs, struggles and triumphs, but I hope to leave a legacy behind. Not of what I did or how great I was, but how great God is. His faithfulness and his dedication to me are limitless. God loved me first. He chose me and gave me the opportunity to know his son and confess him as Lord. That is my prayer for each and every one of my family members here. And the reason for which I came. God bless you all, and thank you so much for your blessings in my life. I hope these updates have been a blessing to yours. There are still so many needs here to be met. But God is faithful. Remember the E! In Christ, K. Wylin