As the warm sun shines here in South Texas, those faithful and loving servants of God from One Family One Purpose are busy building a house for the Timmerman Family in Beaver Crossing Nebraska. This years project for OFOP is going quite well without us being there getting in the way of " real builders". These guys and gals are rockin it. Go to their web site. www.onefamilyonepurpose.org to see the progress of building a home for a family that lost their home in a tornado earlier this year. Three days in an it's framed, sided, under roof and the heat is probably blowing if I know these guys.
Many people have asked people that return from a missions trip with us here in Mexico, " how come you don't do that for people in the U.S.? Well the question to these guys from the Carpenters Crew turned into a challenge and they met the challenge big time. This is the fourth house they have built for disaster stricken families with no or inadequate insurance coverage. Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, and now the State of Nebraska has been blessed by OFOP. These guys get it! We wern't born to survive, we were born to thrive, and thrive they do by reaching out to those in need, wherever the need. I am proud to have them as friends and we always make it a point as part of our giving to help cover the cost of the homes they build. To God be the Glory for what they have done.
It always comes back to the question, what on earth are you doing for heavens sake??? As we look back on the past year, I always stand in awe of God and His provision. Another 22 houses built this year, millions of meals of food past through our hands into the hands that needed a meal, 1000 bibles given out, bicycles, backpacks,solar systems, clothes, and most of all, I believe that we loved on the " least of these" that God has assigned us to with the love that God has put in our hearts. We don't do it all perfectly, far from it, but we do trust God to take our lives, that we put into His hands, and use us however and wherever He wants.
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