BUILT AND DEDICATED IN THREE DAYS

We have been so blessed this week with the team from our home church Moraine Valley in Palos Heights, Illinois. Alan and Lynnea Wells, Roger Ault, Diana Fernandez, Rose Kamin, Anna Parro, and Kyle Simon made up the team of willing hearts and hands to provide a new home for a family that needed one. We started late Monday morning and it was all but finished yesterday, so today we put the finishing touches on, and the girls decorated it beautifully and the kids were in awe of their new home. This house didn't get built by hands, it was built by LOVE! Mostly our love for God, which then flows over into loving people. Some people are a little harder to love than others. Such was the case with Inosencio, the "man" of the house. He didn't like the foundation, or the loft in the house, or the pitch on the roof, but when all was said and done, I think he kinda likes the fact that his family has a new, clean, dry house to live in and they were all happy about it. He heard the gospel of truth that is found in Christ, and that is all we wanted, after Martha said that he didn't want to be there for the dedication, he was sleeping. I told her that if he didn't come, the house would be locked until he would. I got a little fleshy! Tomorrow we will drive thru the colonia and give out hundreds of gifts, door to door along with this months gift bag of food. Backpacks filled with stuff, bikes, 100 sleeping bags, gift bags for the women and many many other things. It will be a great day in the neighborhood!!