THE DREADED PHONE CALL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

You have probably felt your heart sink when your phone rings in the middle of the night, it's usually not good news. Our daughters Kristin and Kelly called to tell us that their Grandma, Florence, had gone to be with the Lord. Her battle is over, she's in heaven, whole and happy. Florence had received Christ as her Savior several years ago when she prayed with us to have her sins forgiven and accepted the payment of her sin debt in full, by Christs' work on the cross. We never really witnessed the radically changed life that I experienced some 33 years ago, but we never saw the changed life of the thief on the cross next to Jesus either. Only the promise of " today you will be with me in Paradise". based only on his confession of belief in Jesus Christ as the only way to heaven. So we are packing up some things and loading up the R.V. to head home for Grandmas funeral next Saturday.
      We were planning on driving up in two weeks for Thanksgiving anyhow, so God moved up the travel date. We went to the colonia to take care of some things and to show Carmelo and Eliazar the families that we are going to build houses for at Christmas so they can pour the foundations for them while were gone. As we drove through the colonia handing out cartons of chocolate milk  and orange juice, we stopped at a house in between two houses we had built. A nice shack if there is such a thing, but in need of new siding. Well Enrique had bought cinder blocks to build the walls , but had no money to buy the cement, stone and sand needed to finish the walls. I told Him that God loves him and that God had told me to buy him everything he needed. We asked if they had a personal relationship with Christ and they said no, not really. We shared the gospel with them and when it came time to leave we bowed our heads to pray and Enriques wife Victoria repeated the prayer of salvation and got born again right then and there. Their daughter Alicia who is 15 was there and I had asked her if she had been praying for her parents and she said yes, for several years. Well today Salvation came knocking at their door, and I believe Enrique will bow the knee before long.
      So in reality, we provided the means for four houses today and all the families are really excited about their huge blessing from God. Moraine Valley Church will build two houses after Christmas, one for Angel, Maria and their baby girl Jereh and the other for Juan Carlos, Patricia and their three kids. So we'll be in Chgo for a few weeks instead of only one, and we hope to see many of you at church while we're in town.

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