GOD DIRECTS OUR PATH, IF WE WOULD ONLY LISTEN
Last Monday, Carmelo took the initiative to get a start on Jorges house and cut the rafters and studs. Tuesday I show up and tell him there is a change in the plan, AGAIN!! I heard the Holy Spirit tell me to build Miguel and Ana Marias house instead of Jorges while the Group From Moraine is here. I didn't even have the wood delivered yet. I wasn't planning on building that house until the end of February. So on Tuesday I go and load the wood in my trailer and take it all down to Miguel and Marias. I could tell Carmelo was a little miffed at my change at the last minuet. Heck the team arrives on Wed. and they are calling for rain all week, and cold temps. But God knew what was going to take place while we were there building the house. So Carmelo and a few other guys and I built the four walls of the house Tuesday afternoon and we asked the family to paint everything and we would come back on Thursday.
I picked up The Davis family John, Carolyn, and their kids Alex and Emma, along with Roger Ault at the airport Wed. The cold was setting and and the rains started falling. By morning it was a steady drizzle and we had to get this house built before the big rains that were expected for Friday night and Sat. We grabbed a few other guys from the colonia and worked all day in the rain, got the roof on and the windows in. We were all wet and cold, but the family was gracious and made us tamales, soup and coffee. We pretty much forgot about the fact that it was New Years Eve. Paula made meat loaf and we had a great meal in Mexico before heading home at 10 pm. John and I spent an hour or so playing the guitar together. A hot shower when we got home and bed before midnight, yoo hoo party animals.
Friday morning the rain was a little more of a steady drizzle. But we got er done and decided to decorate and dedicate that day as well knowing Sat could be a wash out. Well as we shared the Gospel with the family, oh not by words,but by loving actions, Ana Marie, her Mom Maria, and her sister Carmen all accepted Christ that night, that Holy Night, that Night so Divine for these precious souls that had an appointment with destiny and their eternal future was held in the balance. Had we not obeyed Gods change of plans for the week, what might have happened? We obeyed and God showed up!!!!
I picked up The Davis family John, Carolyn, and their kids Alex and Emma, along with Roger Ault at the airport Wed. The cold was setting and and the rains started falling. By morning it was a steady drizzle and we had to get this house built before the big rains that were expected for Friday night and Sat. We grabbed a few other guys from the colonia and worked all day in the rain, got the roof on and the windows in. We were all wet and cold, but the family was gracious and made us tamales, soup and coffee. We pretty much forgot about the fact that it was New Years Eve. Paula made meat loaf and we had a great meal in Mexico before heading home at 10 pm. John and I spent an hour or so playing the guitar together. A hot shower when we got home and bed before midnight, yoo hoo party animals.
Friday morning the rain was a little more of a steady drizzle. But we got er done and decided to decorate and dedicate that day as well knowing Sat could be a wash out. Well as we shared the Gospel with the family, oh not by words,but by loving actions, Ana Marie, her Mom Maria, and her sister Carmen all accepted Christ that night, that Holy Night, that Night so Divine for these precious souls that had an appointment with destiny and their eternal future was held in the balance. Had we not obeyed Gods change of plans for the week, what might have happened? We obeyed and God showed up!!!!
TWAS THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS IN THE COLONIA
So I'm thinking that most people take it easy the day after Christmas. Not so with us. Paula and I got up at 5:30 am and headed back to the colonia for our annual Christmas Outreach. We had a friend bring us 7 cakes last night to share with the people today. People were already at the Community Center at 6:30 when we arrived. They helped me set up chairs and Paula started slicing the cakes. Carmelo and Ruth made all 30 gallons of hot chocolate to go along with the 400 pieces of Mexican Sweet Bread we had ordered from a local bakery in Mx. The clothes were all lines up on the tables with care, and the smell of hot chocolate filled the air. The presents were piled up around the tree, and the children were sneaking around to see what they could see.
When Jaime arrived we started singing some songs as we waited for David and Luzma to continue with some more songs.. Carmelo was busy taking everyone's name and giving them a number for they drawing we were going to have for some blankets. All told, we gave out 150 soccer balls, 100 girly dolls, 75 backpacks filled with toys, 100 bottles of shampoo and body wash, tooth brushes and paste,2000 pounds of beans and rice, 185 liters of cooking oil, shoes, clothes, and the 40 blankets we held a drawing for. WHAT A GREAT DAY WE HAD!!!!
The way we choose to "spend " our Christmas Season is buying all these presents for families that don't "do" Christmas like we do in America. Today's gifts might have been the only gift they got for Christmas, I don't really know, but I do know that they heard about the greatest gift of all, Jesus Christ, coming down to this stinking, sin soaked, God rejecting world, to pour out His Love on all humanity. What an Awesome God. 24 Bibles we also taken by the people today, and when it was all over, and the people were all gone, we walked away feeling so blessed to be able to minister to the needs of those that God has entrusted to our care.
WE COULD NOT DO IT WITHOUT YOUR PRAYERS AND SUPPORT, SO JUST IN CASE YOU GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE HYPE OF CHRISTMAS, KNOW THAT YOU BLESSED A LOT OF PEOPLE TODAY BY SUPPORTING US. SO THANKS FOR ANOTHER RECORD SETTING YEAR OF BUILDING, FOOD DISTRIBUTION AND BLESSING THE LEAST OF THESE, OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN MEXICO.
Oh and just a note, we had Christmas dinner at the Mathews house, outside, on the patio and it was 87 degrees.
When Jaime arrived we started singing some songs as we waited for David and Luzma to continue with some more songs.. Carmelo was busy taking everyone's name and giving them a number for they drawing we were going to have for some blankets. All told, we gave out 150 soccer balls, 100 girly dolls, 75 backpacks filled with toys, 100 bottles of shampoo and body wash, tooth brushes and paste,2000 pounds of beans and rice, 185 liters of cooking oil, shoes, clothes, and the 40 blankets we held a drawing for. WHAT A GREAT DAY WE HAD!!!!
The way we choose to "spend " our Christmas Season is buying all these presents for families that don't "do" Christmas like we do in America. Today's gifts might have been the only gift they got for Christmas, I don't really know, but I do know that they heard about the greatest gift of all, Jesus Christ, coming down to this stinking, sin soaked, God rejecting world, to pour out His Love on all humanity. What an Awesome God. 24 Bibles we also taken by the people today, and when it was all over, and the people were all gone, we walked away feeling so blessed to be able to minister to the needs of those that God has entrusted to our care.
WE COULD NOT DO IT WITHOUT YOUR PRAYERS AND SUPPORT, SO JUST IN CASE YOU GOT CAUGHT UP IN THE HYPE OF CHRISTMAS, KNOW THAT YOU BLESSED A LOT OF PEOPLE TODAY BY SUPPORTING US. SO THANKS FOR ANOTHER RECORD SETTING YEAR OF BUILDING, FOOD DISTRIBUTION AND BLESSING THE LEAST OF THESE, OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN MEXICO.
Oh and just a note, we had Christmas dinner at the Mathews house, outside, on the patio and it was 87 degrees.
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