WHEN THE "CREW" LEAVES THE WORK CONTINUES

The day after the Carpenters Crew headed back to the snow and cold in Illinois and Iowa, we had our first outreach in the new Community Center. We still had clothes to give out at our old place, but after that, everyone came to the new building for a great message of hope and the beans, rice, cooking oil and sugar. A lot of praise and worship songs sung by our friends David, Luz-mar and their kids invited the Holy Spirit to descend upon us all and seven people gave their lives to Christ. What a great day!!! 150 families came for the message and the food, so them coupled with the 100 families that the Carpenters Crew gave food to last Thursday took the total to 250 families for the monthly food outreach. We know now that we need to take food further down the canal to the people that simply don't walk the two miles to get to our place once a month. It's a long walk with their kids in tow, plus then they have to carry the 10 or 15 pounds of food all the way back home, so we'll do two food outreaches a month instead of one.
   After the food outreach we had our monthly Pastors meeting at our house and was glad to have 4 of them in attendance. Paula and Lynnea made us all lunch and we had a great time sharing our hearts about how God could use the new Community Center for His Glory. Two of the new Pastors to come speak English which made us gringos feel more part of the conversations. We are all starting to work together instead of doing separate things. We all have the same goal in mind, To Further Gods Kingdom!! It was a great time of connecting.
   After that meeting, a few Pastors from Austin, Scott McDonald from ROHI, a director of a local orphanage, and a few other leaders from Austin came to have a sit down with us and Roy and Rebecca Busby. They wanted to brain storm together about the upcoming year and some projects we could embrace together in the colonia. After giving our" stories" about what we do we talked about major projects like getting electricity in the colonia. And I don't mean the current partial system of stealing it from existing lines and hooking up to it. A Reynosa official was there along with an electrical contractor to measure everything and give Scott the official estimate. WOW real electricity. It looks like we'll do it in phases of 20 thousand dollars a section. Total cost probably 120K NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD!!!!