BUILDING HOUSES, BUILDING FAMILIES

Can you imagine raising your four children in this house? Can you imagine having to dry out your clothes, your bed and your belongings every time it rains? Enrique and Dorith have been doing just that for several years as they waited and prayed for a home, fit to raise their family in. Every time we have set out to find families that need houses, we seldom have to look to hard. Even though we have built 140 houses and our other missionary friends have built more than that, it's not to hard to find someone in need of a house, a new roof, a new bed, or even just a hug. They are everywhere! Maybe even right next door to you. Everyone has some kind of a need. Maybe physical, but most likely spiritual. The greatest way that we have found to reach them spiritually with the hope found in a relationship with Jesus Christ, is to meet a physical need first and that always opens the door to the more important spiritual needs they have. So Enrique, Dorith and their four kids Rebecca 18, Reyna 14, Carmen 12, and Enrique Jr 8 will spend the next few weeks wondering what it will be like the day they move into their new home. We also met Diego and his wife Elvia. They have 3 kids, Juanna Maria, Jesus, and Diego Jr. They live just a few doors down from the trade school, and have one of the oldest homes in the colonia. It doesn't look bad from the outside, but 1 inch gaps around the windows and doors, coupled with a leaky roof make living during inclement weather rather nasty. They too will be getting a house, when Moraine Valley Church in Palos Heights Il entrusts us with their youth groups annual missions trip. They will spend the week ministering to the needs of this family and most likely several others, as they give themselves to the work of the Lord helping the poor.
  As I had mentioned in my previous post, Tommy and Blanca, along with Zacharias and Carmela will both be getting married on Aug 30th at the Community Center. Paula posted these pictures of them, as they vowed to enter into the covenant of marriage.We are hoping for many more couples to join them in August and affirm their love for each other and a blessed life doing it Gods way.