CHOICES

   We met Rogelio (Roger) and Dayanneeda several months ago. They have been living in a one room house with their Uncle. They have two kids Ruby who is 6 and Jose who just turned one. They had asked us if we could build them a little room off of their Uncles house. We suggested that the Uncle let them build a little house next to His. He agreed and and we bought two loads of caleche' to fill the lot in. Before even starting the process of building them a home, Rogelio asked us to pray for his legs that were injured in an accident and we did. At the same time Carmelo and I shared the Gospel with him and he accepted Christ that day. He is since been healed and is back working, He and his long time live in girlfriend got married in a civil ceremony last month and as soon as they get connected with a church and go through marriage counseling we plan on a church wedding for them as well as Anna and Miguel that we built a house for in January. They are friends and had their civil wedding on the same day in Feb. and look forward to the Big One. Anyhow, the foundation you see is for their new house. We waited several hours yesterday for materials that didn't show. So we drove around checking out prospective families for houses.
     As we drove down toward one end, we came across Cezar and Allysa chopping weeds and cleaning up a lot that Cezars Dad gave them. Cezar got Allysa pregnant and they are going to need a place to live. There is an explosion of young girls, 14, 15, 16 years old getting pregnant in the colonia. We were talking about the epidemic yesterday after we met with them. They are both 16, and life as they know it will never be the same. The great, if you can call it great, part of the problem is that they keep the baby and somehow make it work. I was sharing about when I was 16 and got my girlfriend pregnant, we just went and got an abortion, problem solved, or was it???? So when we see these young kids having babies, I'm a little more compassionate than most because of the lives that were cut short because of my "choices". At least they are letting their baby live and giving God the opportunity to use this precious life for His Glory. So there are a few young families who made a huge choice for life that we'll be building houses for in the next few months. Some may ask" aren't you rewarding bad behavior by building these kids having kids a house?" " No I say, just loving them the way Jesus loves them".