NEW YEAR, NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE

Is it just me or did 2011 last only a few months? I can't believe we just ushered in 2012 last night. The series on the History channel this week is all about the 2012 prophecy's. It is interesting and I can't wait to see how it plays out. This week Alan and I have been building our addition on our Missions House in Mx. and we are half done. It is challenging my brain to figure out the totally different angles and dimensions, oh well, it will work out. Yesterday we had 15 people come with us to help hand out food and gifts in the colonia for the last time in 2011. David Lara brought 7 of his 10 kids, that have knitted hundreds of hats for the kids in Mx this year and also have given lots of their toys and clothes to them as well, so it was special to have them give the hats out and see where they were going. One of Davids workers brought his wife and their 5 kids and George and Bonnie, from church, came again. We are so grateful for the help, because it usually is a zoo when we try to do everything ourselves, from giving the message to handing out everything and trying to do it in an orderly fashion, so the extra hands were a real blessing. We gave out 152 big bags of food, hundreds of coloring books, crayons and hygiene kits. A friend gave us hundreds of gift bags for the women as well as razors for the men in line. We had a great time and also met the family that we are going to build our next house for with a donation from a family at church, and the matching grant fund from church making up the difference. She has five kids and a set of one month old twins. They live in a one room house no bigger than the size of a king size bed and this family of seven, sleeps on that one bed. We have been waiting on God to show us the next family to receive a house, and yesterday, we all agreed that this was Gods choice, not ours. The kids visiting from the states, took their turns looking inside the tiny house and were amazed at level of poverty, this family lived in. GIVE THANKS TO GOD TODAY FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, AND THEN GIVE SOME OF IT AWAY!! HAPPY NEW YEAR