Last week Rick Balmer from La Harpe IL, called because he received a call from Pastor Alberto in Progresso, Mx, that one of his church members lost her house to a fire. Margarita (the owner of the burned house) was asleep when someone jumped her fence and woke her up,
pounding on her door shouting "your house is on fire, get out". It was all she could do to get out, leaving everything behind. Clothes, personal stuff, photos, everything gone! After heari9ng about it, We went there on Monday and met Margarita and she explained that she would really like a block house because it wouldn't burn. I don't build block house myself, and I found that paying people to build it always costs a lot more than thought, so I told her, " I would buy the blocks, cement, sand and gravel, and her son could build it, and when the walls are done, we would come back and put the roof, windows and doors on". The other family lives in the colonia in Reynosa, Inocencio and his wife Silvia ( not in photo) Their daughter Joanna, who is 17, Zachil is eight, and Nicholas is 7. They live in a typical make-shift house with a dirt floor. no windows, and a screen door is all that closes at night. Ducks and chickens actually live inside the house, because the walls are so bad, that can just walk right in. Inocencio make pinatas for a living, just like his brother that lives a mile down the road. A team from Hulls Grove Baptist Church in North Carolina will be coming at the end of Sept to bless this family with a new home. We will pour a floor inside the existing walls next week, because it really is bad inside the house after it rains, Imagine your floor turning into slippery mud everytime it rains! Today We get a load of rice, purchased with Junkin for Jesus Money, from Colorado Rice company in Eagle Lake Texas. Rick Caywoods son Travis is picking it up this morning and should be here late this afternoon. Travis is going to stay a few days and help us build a house for Marcos and Margarita. It will be a small house because their lot is really small, probably 12 X 16 foot. A load of beans is on the way as well from North Dakota, donated by Hope Development in the Chgo area, He has two more loads for us and asked if I could pay for one and get the other donated, Duhhhh!!! Of course! Three loads for 10K you betcha. Another partner is lining up the transportation for us if we'll share the beans with their ministry. The gift of giving is, in my mind, the most awesome gift The Holy Spirit has given me. It takes your faith to a whole new level, knowing that the only way to receive from God is to GIVE!!!!! People can make all kinds of money and say "God has Blessed Me" but when it is all supernatural, as a direct result of Gods promises in His Word being taken literally and obeyed, then watch out, the windows of Heaven could and would open up on your life if you follow the instruction God gives you.
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