BAM !!!!

As we continue to get the green light at the border, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the colonia. Last week, Agape Christian School asked us to speak at their Christmas Musical before they presented us with over 50 gift bags for the children in Mexico that they had collected. Krista is one of the teachers there and goes to our church and they decided to make the kids in Mexico their Christmas Service project. We are so grateful for all the heartfelt gifts that went into the bags, and they are sure to be appreciated by the  children that probably won't get any other gifts. Our church also made up about thirty gift bags as well and we got them all across the border today. Christmas is coming and the kids in the colonia know that they won't be forgotten. We have been led to the final family that will get a new house in the next month or so. A single Mom named Norma and her six kids will be able to sleep under one roof and  in their own beds real soon. Jose 17,and Ricardo 15, sleep in a little shack next to their Moms house because there is no room for them. Lida is 14, Manicarmen is 9, Josse is 7 and Palo is 1& 1/2. A few door down, Maria Henandez has the responsibility of her grandchildren and two great grandchildren. There can be as many as 8 people sleeping in two leaky rooms at any given time, so they also will be experiencing Gods goodness. I often think that we should be nearing getting every family a new home, but I know it is indeed endless. The needs are just to many and God willing, one day they will all have a new home, just in time to start rebuilding the first ones we built. We can't wait until Alan, Lyneaa and Roger get here next week and then we get to hand out all the gifts. We are planning on buying gifts for the Moms and Dads as well, so they don't feel forgotten. The load of beans arrived yesterday and we spent the whole day unloading and arrainging everything in the warehouse. Alan from Netmenders Ministry in MN brought the beans as well as a half of a truck load of bikes, toys, windows, doors, a washer and dryer, a fridge, and 85 bicycles. Our yard looks like a flea market and soon everything will be in the hands of the people in Mexico that God intended. They let me pick out ten nice mountain bikes for the working Men in the colonia, sweet! One day I have about three thousand pounds of beans and then BAM! Gods Favor fills the warehouse and we should have enough for at least six months. Alan found a load to take back to MN, so that should decrease the amount we have to pay for the transportation of the beans by several hundred, maybe even a thousand dollars. BAM! more Favor. I pray that you get your BAM! from God today. He really does want to bless our socks off, He's just waiting for just the right time, and then BAM!! everything changes, needs are met, health is restored, relationships are renewed, lives are changed. I hope everyone can attend a Christmas musical this season. We have been to two this last weekend and they were awesome. Josie Busby sang a beautiful solo Be Born In Me wow it was great and I'm proud to know her. We  had some visiters today in the colonia, Ramon and Esperanza came over with two of their three kids and Ruthies baby Leam. They are the very first family we built a house for in 1997. Ruthy was two then and now is married and has a baby. Now I know what it means to not be weary in well doing, for in DUE SEASON you will reap, if you faint not. This is our due season and Gods abundance is evident and the Favor of the Most High is expanding His Kingdom through the people He has placed in our path.