YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP
Yesterday took us to a Lady that had a fire burn her house to the ground. We stood in the pile of charred remains and assured her that we would build her a house as soon as we could. The ironic thing in her story is that she is the wife of a man that was killed in a car wreck last year. Now we had built a house for that man and another women that he lived with and had a child with. We had no idea he had another wife. Long story short, we agreed to build her a house if she would quit laying claim to the other lady's house that we built a few years ago. She says, that she owns that lot as well and has given the other lady a hard time.We will schedule a meeting of reconciliation and forgiveness between the two women that both lost their man. A real soap opera unfolding in this story. We poured the floor for the addition on the trade school yesterday for a welding area. It has been a hot bed of activity over in the school and it seems to be drawing a lot of hungry students.
HIS RESURRECTION POWER STILL MOVES HEARTS
HAPPY RESURRECTION SUNDAY TO ALL!! Yesterday, we were eye witnesses to the Resurrection power of Jesus Christ as two people heard the voice of The Holy Spirit, as Carmelo shared the story from Luke 24. Celia and a man I had never seen before at the monthly food distribution, came forward as Carmelo finished His message with an invitation to experience the same power that raised Jesus from the dead over two thousand years ago. They bowed their heads and received the greatest gift in human history, ETERNAL LIFE IN JESUS CHRIST. One minuet they were held in darkness, and the next minuet, they experienced the LIGHT OF THE WORLD. There was applause on earth and in heaven at that special moment in time. Isaac and Carol Hoeppner from Manitoba, Canada joined us yesterday to help distribute food to over 170 households represented and counting children, there were about 300 people that came yesterday. Every family go the normal beans, rice and cooking oil, but we had a donation of bags of flour and canned goods, so the bags of food we gave were very heavy and full. The kids enjoyed their juice boxes as usual and David and Luz mar provided Easter celebration music. One family had a huge prayer need with one of their children in the hospital with a stomach infection. The people in the colonia responded to the need with their finances and started putting money in a box as an offering to the family to help them with the purchase of medicine for their sick child. How awesome is that!! Some people gave the food we gave them back to the family in need, because they had no money to give. After 5 years, they are starting to get it. A great morning ended with prayer for the sick and those unspoken requests hidden in the hearts of the people, but known to God. In the afternoon, several people from an adult Sunday School class at Calvary Baptist Church, came to bag up beans and rice for the food outreaches at our church that we supply all the beans and rice they need. I think we bagged up almost a ton of beans and 1000 lbs of rice. Many willing hands makes short work of the task of bagging up the food for the needy. Praise God for the help. Phil and Maryanne Chain are here as they prepare to head to Puebla Mexico next week to start filling the thousands of backpacks they brought for the children in Chaipas, Mx. Check out Mexico Missions.org. They are the directors of Mexico Missions and are generous enough to allow us to partner with them. Pray for them as they travel in their R.V. through Mexico, reaching out to the children in the mountains in Southern Mx. Adios
A CRIB GIVEN AND A CRIB DESTROYED
Thursday we took one of the many cribs given to us by our church in McAllen. Calvary gave us 10 awesome cribs that they replaced with new ones. So we have been looking for people needing cribs and one happy family received one yesterday. After delivering the crib, I loaded up a few tools and we headed back across the border to help John and Ruth Williams take down the "crib" they bought in Port Isabel. The house needed to be removed from the property or they would have to pay taxes on it, so we picked up Sergio and Mario to lend a hand. In a few short hours we had most of the house torn down and put in the dumpster. It's a nice lot on a canal that accesses the Gulf of Mexico. So that was fun tearing something down instead of building something.
THE SCHOOL BELL HAS FINALLY RUNG
It's a long process getting two very busy missionaries together to get one common goal finished, but this week, Roy had a welding instructor and a professional cabinet maker at the trade school doing workshops this week. It has the colonia buzzing with all the activity. Steve from Alabama, is teaching the welding and Russ from the U.P. of Michigan is teaching cabinet making 101. Roy got the new welder/ generator over and it's all hooked up and running smooth. We started to build the addition to the addition on the school to have a separate area to weld, otherwise, we will probably burn the place down. We should be pouring the floor by weeks end.
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