HOLD ON, YOUR BLESSING IS NEAR, GOD HAS HEARD YOUR CRY.

As the Hernandez family lives under this tarp with walls of tin and their possessions tucked away out of the rain (hopefully) they watched as we started the foundation for their new home. Hugo, Theresa, Andrea 11, Margarita 9, Hugo Jr 8, and Gilberto 6 wear the biggest smiles even in the cold and rain. They know that soon they will be on warm dry beds out of the elements. We made arraingments for them to stay at an empty house in the colonia, but they want to stay there and endure. Sometimes God has us endure hardship, to test our faith for a season, but when the blessings flow after we have stood and fought the good fight of faith, you look back and wouldn't trade those days of testing for nothing. For years God tested our faithfulness in our giving of our financial resourses as He prepared us to be in a position of recieving from others, so that we could give to the poor everything he gives to us thru donations. We're all just conduit for God to flow thru, if we allow him to. It's been raining all night and all day today, and it's cold (48). I called Carmello and he went and checked on the family under the tarp and they said they were fine and needed to stay and watch over all their stuff. We finally finished our Christmas News Letter and they are in the mail. Whether or not they arrive by Christmas remains to be seen, so if you don't get one by then, MERRY CHRISTMAS. And if you don't get one by 2010 let us know and we'll E mail a copy. ADIOS for now, and keep the families in Mexico in your prayers, they are cold and damp and theres no where to hide from the cold in the colonia.