Five women from Chicago came to visit and help us for 5 days. Jan, Marsha, Judy, Sherry and Joan arrived on Thursday. Our first all woman team. I thought it would be a great week for a golf vacation for me and give the Ladies a chance to bond, but alas, I stayed home.
They hit the ground running Friday to help us decorate and then dedicate Alberto and Theresas new house. It rained pretty hard Thursday night I took the new 4 X 4 truck to get us all the way down to where we built. We loaded the truck with all the stuff to decorate and David and Luzma came to lead us in song. Dedication was awesome as they shared about how blessed they feel and God providing a house for them. They also slaughtered one of their pigs and made us pork and mole'. After that we needed arraigned everything for Saturdays huge once a year outreach to celebrate Children, Moms, and Dads all on the same day. On the way home, our new truck lost all trans fluid just after I crossed the border and I had to get it towed home. Pray that its not a serious problem.
Friday night at 11 pm, huge storms pummeled South Texas and Northern Mexico. Straight line winds caused a lot of damage. We could saw corn fields laid over like dominoes on the way to Mexico. In the colonia, roofs were blown off, fences down, trees and branches down. No damage to our place, but the "trade school" lost a few pieces of roofing. The normal crowds were not at our place when we arrived. Usually there's a hundred people by 8am. But they started arriving shortly after we did. David Garcia had a medical team come and check blood sugar and cholesterol levels while people waited for their food. Pastor Jaime brought his worship band from his church in Reynosa and led us in praise and worship. The ladies were entertaining the multitude of children with face painting, bubble machines and hula hoops. After I shared a message with the people, everyone was given a bag full of gifts. Backpacks for the kids for Dia de Nino'. Soccer balls for the boys, dolls for the girls, school supplies, crayons. The women all got used purses donated by other women, filled with shampoo, jewelry, lotions and other goodies. The men were also blessed with backpacks with Razors, deodorant, toothbrushes, and other things. And the boys grilled up 350 hot dogs for everyone as well. A great day ended as we drove to Progress and shopped in the straw market and then ate a great meal at a restaurant we never ate at before.
So, we road the roller coaster all week, and I only threw up once, yea!! A lot of storms have rolled threw the area all week, the colonia road is getting really bad again! We were blessed to build another house for a Christian Family. The Ladies that came to serve along side of us and were told by Karen Bosi to help Paula paint the kitchen, but that ain't going to happen. Our God is so much bigger than everything, we can't even imagine how much He loves us. We are so thankful for the generous team of supporters God has given us to be able to continue helping people. A Blog post from last week about a young lady that obeyed God and gave us a thousand dollar gift to help the poor and despite all the voices trying to get her to keep her money, she gave and was blessed in a major way, prompted two other donors to take their faith to a new level of $1000.00 giving as well. We took the thousand given to us two weeks ago, and sowed it into the Kingdom to provide food and backpacks to the Children in Puebla Mexico where Phil and Marrianne went to minister to the needs of people in the Mountains this week. THE ONLY WISE INVESTMENT WITH HUGE GUARANTEED RETURNS IN IN GODS KINGDOM. So all you investment brokers, take a cue from the King.
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