IT'S HOT, BUT NOT TOO HOT TO STOP US FROM HELPING PEOPLE

  Every day the temps here have topped 100, I think it's like 110 with the humidity, maybe higher. I don't really know how hot and I don't really care. But we see needs at every turn. Yesterday Dave and Sharon Sachs and their grandson Garrett spent the day with us over in Mexico. Dave and Sharon manage a Christian Retreat Center and host missions groups that come and spend themselves helping people on both sides of the border. They provide the lodging and facilities they need to "do" the work of the ministry. Melody Lane Christian Renewal Center if you want to check out their ministry. They have been in Texas about as long as we have and planned on serving for a year or so, that was 8 years ago. They decided to "spend " their retirement years serving God and serving others, and not from some fancy condo on a golf course, or wasting their days hunting sea shells on a Fort Meyers beach. They are both in their 70's and loving what God has them doing. So even though it was really hot yesterday, God allowed us to visit several people and show them all that God has done in the colonia since they last came over.
    As we drove looking for this one family way down the road, we pointed out house after house that had been built over the years. Most of them still looking good, some in need of paint, and even some abandoned lots with only the foundation remaining after the family literally took the house apart and moved it to another colonia. We finally arrived at Donaciano and Aquillinas house. He walks with crutches because of some huge diabetes related sores on his legs. Their house is nothing short of a disaster and we are planning on taking it down and building them a new one in the near future.
    Pastor Felipe' was waiting for us when we arrived yesterday to get some more bibles from us to take 30 hours south of the border where he has over 20 churches that he oversees. He comes up every few months and we give him whatever we can, and since we just got 500 bibles donated to us, we had plenty to share. He also took about 750 pounds of rice as well to haul back home. I love the fact that God has us helping people hundreds, even thousands of miles away that we will never meet, and all of you that support us are sharing in the blessings that go far beyond the border. What a great day it will be when we get to meet everyone that has been touched by the ministry in some way shape or form. I feel sorry for people that think retirement years are for themselves instead of HIM.