DOES IT GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS??

Yesterday, we loaded up the van with hundreds of two pound bags of flour that Rick Caywood brought from New Mexico. We also took a few hundred pounds of beans and rice as well as a single mattress for Flor and Jorges kids. The girls baked a few hundred hot dogs to take over as well. After we repaired the base the mattress sits on, we installed the new mattress and tossed the old nasty one out. Dave, Loni and Paula started hanging curtains, and making the two new double beds we bought with new sheets, pillow cases and blankets. After all was done, David and Luz mar came and we started singing several songs before we prayed over the new addition to their house. A place where Lupita can sleep on her own bed while she recovers from a stroke she suffered from several months ago. She can barely talk, but she can sure praise the Lord. Her daughters have told her she was crazy when she would say that she sees Jesus. Know they know better! She has seen Jesus! And He came in the form of Dave and Loni Siirtola from Hancock, MI, John Van Loo from Zeeland MI, Carmelo and Caleb Avanil from Reynosa, MX, and Bruce and Paula Hepburn, that's us. We shared how Jesus does indeed show Himself to those that believe, How Jesus shows up at just the right time to meet a need or touch a sick body. He even just shows up in the form of ordinary people crossing an International Border just to help a family in need. HE JUST SHOWS UP! As Dave and Loni shared with them how it wasn't Gods plan to build a whole house this trip, but with no one else besides them coming down for a week, funds would be limited at best to build anything, THEN GOD SHOWED UP, when one of Lupitas granddaughters came up to Paula a few weeks ago and asked if we could somehow build a room for Grandma. Paula shared that with Loni over the phone and because they had built the original house several years ago with a college kid team, they were already connected to this family and were on board for the addition. I was able to share with everyone , how God seemed to be moving in a big way in their family, as several of them had accepted Christ over the last few months. Before long, Paula was giving the invitation to accept Christ and Flors sister and her husband prayed out loud to the King of Kings and invited Him to come and rescue them. We dried our eyes and did what all Christians do, we ate!! We probably ate 1/2 the hot dogs right there, and then drove through the colonia and gave the rest out to any one that wanted one, or even two. We stayed home today and took care of many different things, one of which was I needed to take a dept of transportation physical to keep my class A drivers license, in case I have to take one of Rick Caywoods trucks on a road trip to pick up some donated beans or rice, anyhow I passed, but the doc told me I have beginning stages of Diabetes and I have to change a few things, like not eating a whole box of sugar frosted flakes in one sitting, and no more 5 spoons of sugar in my coffee, OUCH!! We're getting older and need to start taking better care of ourselves, or not.

Flor's mom have a room with a new bed to rest now

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It seems we spent more time waiting on the bridge coming home than building the small addition. Obama sure wants to mess with our lives, rather than mess with the lives that waste all the money to begin with. DON"T GET ME STARTED! The border agents say that it's only going to get worse. Anyhow, we have had a great time with the addition and all the kids that are hanging around and "helping". We came home last night to a huge blessing of over 2000 bags of flour on Rick Caywoods truck parked in our yard. That's enough flour to make three million five hundred thousand tortillas.

 

 

 

HUGE NEED, SMALL ADDITION

Loni and Dave Siirtola arrived from Hancock,MI yesterday to spend a week or so here and to build that little addition for Jorges family. So we built a lot of it yesterday, with the help of John Vanloo from MI. John and I  met on the golf course a month or so ago, and He just wanted to help. Carmelo helped as usual, and Carmelo 5 year old son Caleb came along as therapy to help him forget about his puppy Max dying the night before. A funeral today for a brother from church here, absent from the cancer filled body, present with the Lord, His battle of the flesh is over! Thousands of pounds of beans and Rice are leaving the warehouse every week. We started the year with 22 thousand pounds of beans and we are down to 10 thousand already. NO LIMITS!!! That's the instruction I got from the Holy Spirit. Take the limits off of people coming to get food and God will open up the supply line. We usually limit ministries to 2 or even three hundred pounds at a time, but NO MORE LIMITS!!

BECOME MISSIONAL, " GO AND DO LIKEWISE"

Thanks Rick for sending those great devotionals on being "Missional". It is our joy and privilege to encourage others to be more mission minded and partaking in Gods global purpose. After spending a week down in the state of Mexico with Paula and her family, we are more convinced that God has a plan for every step we take in life. Reaching these "good" people for Christ is not easy. They are very committed to their faith and their families and they love each other deeply. So trying to explain a better way of believing is quite difficult, but thankfully the tracts we have given them and the things we have told them are starting to bring forth questions about Christ and Christ alone. I guess, no I know , that was our "mission" for the past week. A long drive through some beautiful mountains is well worth the trip to share about Gods love for our family in Mexico. We had many opportunities to share with most of the family as they gathered every night for an hour to pray the rosary for Paulas' Mom, who has been with the Lord for over a year now. When was the last time you gathered together with your family to pray and seek God? So how do you tell them that what they are doing is wrong? While they prayed their repetitive prayer, Paula and I would pray for them, it seemed the best thing to do. So we gave out an entire case of bibles along the way, and countless tracts to complete strangers and who knows? God has used tracts to reach millions of people, so we just pray for them. Paulas brother Fernando and I drove over an hour twice to play golf up in the mountains by the Toluca Volcano and after the game I would give the caddies we had a bible and a tract as well as their pay for lugging my golf bag around for six hours. I could never do it, the elevation is about 10,000 feet above sea level and the air is quite thin, so I would pay them to carry my clubs and the walk without the clubs was tiring enough. So we are home, Carmelo and Eliazar are pouring a foundation as I type and Lonnie and Dave Siirtola from the U. P. of Michigan will be here Thursday to build a little addition on the house they built three years ago for Jorge and Flor. Flors' Mom, who spends her days in a wheel chair, now lives with them and they need the extra space for her. Gladys and Alford left this morning after holding down the fort last week while were gone. While here, they bagged up thousands of pounds of beans and rice, instead of just sitting around. I'd say they were missional while they were here!!  DON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE, BE INTENTIONAL ABOUT BEING A BLESSING TO SOMEONE TODAY, WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU TO DO, JUST DO IT!!!