So I'm thinking that most people take it easy the day after Christmas. Not so with us. Paula and I got up at 5:30 am and headed back to the colonia for our annual Christmas Outreach. We had a friend bring us 7 cakes last night to share with the people today. People were already at the Community Center at 6:30 when we arrived. They helped me set up chairs and Paula started slicing the cakes. Carmelo and Ruth made all 30 gallons of hot chocolate to go along with the 400 pieces of Mexican Sweet Bread we had ordered from a local bakery in Mx. The clothes were all lines up on the tables with care, and the smell of hot chocolate filled the air. The presents were piled up around the tree, and the children were sneaking around to see what they could see.
When Jaime arrived we started singing some songs as we waited for David and Luzma to continue with some more songs.. Carmelo was busy taking everyone's name and giving them a number for they drawing we were going to have for some blankets. All told, we gave out 150 soccer balls, 100 girly dolls, 75 backpacks filled with toys, 100 bottles of shampoo and body wash, tooth brushes and paste,2000 pounds of beans and rice, 185 liters of cooking oil, shoes, clothes, and the 40 blankets we held a drawing for. WHAT A GREAT DAY WE HAD!!!!
The way we choose to "spend " our Christmas Season is buying all these presents for families that don't "do" Christmas like we do in America. Today's gifts might have been the only gift they got for Christmas, I don't really know, but I do know that they heard about the greatest gift of all, Jesus Christ, coming down to this stinking, sin soaked, God rejecting world, to pour out His Love on all humanity. What an Awesome God. 24 Bibles we also taken by the people today, and when it was all over, and the people were all gone, we walked away feeling so blessed to be able to minister to the needs of those that God has entrusted to our care.
WE COULD NOT DO IT WITHOUT YOUR PRAYERS AND SUPPORT, SO JUST IN CASE YOU GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE HYPE OF CHRISTMAS, KNOW THAT YOU BLESSED A LOT OF PEOPLE TODAY BY SUPPORTING US. SO THANKS FOR ANOTHER RECORD SETTING YEAR OF BUILDING, FOOD DISTRIBUTION AND BLESSING THE LEAST OF THESE, OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN MEXICO.
Oh and just a note, we had Christmas dinner at the Mathews house, outside, on the patio and it was 87 degrees.
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