IT IS BETTER TO GIVE THAN RECEIVE, MOST OF THE TIME!!!

One thing I have discovered over the last several years is that giving is indeed the greatest joy that God has given us with our ministry here in Texas and Mexico to the poor. But for the last several weeks, we have been graced with the gift of receiving. So many people gave of their resources to equip our ministry with the funds to bless a multitude of people, and we are so grateful for every gift sown into Gods Kingdom to help the poor. So we have learned the Joy of giving and that is preempted by the Joy of receiving so that we can give. It's not really us giving, it's YOU giving through us to help those in need. So THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU  for the generous gifts. It is so good to be home and yesterday we went to the colonia and spent the day stopping at several peoples houses and seeing how they were all doing. It was such a joy to see Caleb, Mimi, Carmelo and Ruth and to just hug them. Caleb even gave me a kiss, which is very hard to get him to do. Carmelo finished the two bathroom/ showers and they are awesome, all tiled, painted, and ready to use. We have the resources to build a few houses, and Alan is eager to get started, but it's over 100 degrees here and I'm not so eager, so we'll start by building some much needed benches for another ministry in the colonia, and work our way up to a house. We bought hundreds of spiral notebooks yesterday to go in the 150 backpacks we bought and we'll get pens and pencils as well. Richard and Wendy kept the place in perfect order while we were gone and the warehouse is running low on rice and beans, so I'll be ordering a truck load of each in the near future. Thanks for all the prayers for us as we traveled God heard and answered! I promise, Paula will get a few of the great photos of our trip on here in the next day or two, there is so much to do when you've been gone for 6 weeks to get caught up.