WAAAAAAATER

Water, that was the very first word that Helen Keller spoke.What a joy to see that freshly dug trench for the water lines! The backhoes sure made the job a lot easier for the team from Austin and those people from the colonia that lent a helping hand. While I was running back and forth in the colonia, Paula, Theresa, Esther and Rosie were holding a kids bible club and craft time at Pastor Victors Church. Pedro, Valerie and Deborah led worship. They are some new friends that serve about 200 miles south of the border and are on their time out of Mexico to renew their visas. 35 years of surrender and 8 children raised in Mx. What a story they have, and it's been fun getting to know them. With our warehouse full of beans, Pedro loaded His truck up the other day to take them home with them. After the children were done with the bible club, we lined them all up again and bought them all a freeze pop or Bonice as they are called in Mexico. 500 pesos was the final tally after all the kids and moms got one. Our monthly Pastors meeting was in the afternoon, under the International Bridge, so after eating tamales at Pastor Victors, we ate again at the meeting. I think we have given out most of the backpacks and school supplies that have been donated. We have been stopping the school buses and checking to see if any kids needed them and then they would pick one. Today we were checking the new water lines and came across a new family in the colonia, The Zapata Family. They made this pathetic little house with no door, a tarp for one wall, 1/2 sheets a plywood for another and they slept on a little piece of foam on the bare ground, full of ants, rats, fleas and God knows what else makes its way in there at night. We went to town, bought a bed and filled the truck up with a lot of different things to make life a LITTLE easier. Food, clothes, candles,blankets,sheets,a table and a Bible. It's almost hard to tell them that God Loves them when they have to live like this, but I told them, that God wants them to bloom and grow right where He has planted them. This is Gods will for their life. How do I know? Because if it was not Gods will, IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT!! We took David and Luzmar to lunch today. They live in the solar powered house and run the water Ministry for the group from Austin. They are from Gueretteno Mx and were hired to support the groups from Austins efforts and make disciples. The water thing has really hindered the disciple making thing, so Omaro handles the water thing now and that frees them up to make disciples. Maybe a trip to San Antonio Wed or Thurs to pick up donated water barrels that are much needed for people to store water in.