Mark and Ricky were here just two months ago on their first missions trip. Mark is a chiropractor and Ricky owns a barber shop with his brother. They came with Moraine Valley Church in March and we built a house for Alexis and Maralee while she was pregnant. They are pictured below with their new baby girl, Narelie.
Mark sent a chiropractors table down in March, so he could use his talents to help people in the colonia. Ricky was his interpreter back then and they saw a lot a patients. Well God got a hold of their hearts, while on the trip and they both have a renewed pasion for God and His Mission for their lives. They came back to get a closer look at our ministry and that of Jaime Mayoraga, a Pastor friend that is remodeling a donated house in Reynosa into an Orphanage. Mark really has been touched by the needs that he saw when here in March. And when God touches your heart, in regards to helping the poor, he'll also touch your wallet. Seeing needs and actually doing something about about it are two completely different things. We all see needs everywhere we go. Chicago, Palos Heights, on vacation, in Mexico, maybe even your neighbor, right next door to you. Needs are everywhere and God is just waiting for us to do something. God responds to our faith in regards to meeting the needs of others. I've never seen money fall from heaven to build a house for a family that needs one, but I have seen people open their hearts and wallets to meet the needs of thousands of families.
So Mark and Ricky spent one night in Reynosa with the Pastor and his family and then we picked them up Monday afternoon after eating a feast at Jaimes house. Yesterday Mark and Ricky worked on peoples backs all day, while Paula held her sewing class, followed by them shooting a video of our ministry along the canal, and today they went back home, all excited about the last few days and the opportunities they saw to get involved with us and the orphanage. New believers , with a new found passion are by far the best people to be around. They are so excited and full of God, and the Holy Spirit. It's infectious. Us old crusty Christians need to hang out with new Christians to lite our fire. They also helped me unload the last of the Warner Farm beans that Rick Caywood ministries has been holding for me. Ricks son Travis brought them down last night, ate, took a shower and headed back north to get another load of donated stuff in San Antonio.
So Paula took the boys to the airport this morning while I went to another eye doctor appt. They are going to use me as a Guinea pig for some new eye meds they are testing, and gave me a 75 dollar check today as well. I love going to the doctor and coming out with more money than I went in with. And as some of you know, it's not the first time God has provided for me that way. We also built another house this week, as Nacho had been building himself a house and needed some help getting it finished. His old house was probably the most pathetic shack we have ever seen. Another missionary told me he wasn't going to build that ole drunk a house. What Would Jesus Do???????
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