What a wonderful day!

 2011 day 5

 What a wonderful day! We can hardly imagine all the amazing things that God has allowed us to see and be a part of this week.  Our evening was closed out in amazing fashion by two teenagers Felix Antonio & Luis Fernando who came tour door late tonight asking for prayer.  They had just accepted Christ and we were able to pray with them.  What an exciting thing to witness, God drawing people to himself.

This morning after breakfast, the guys went to work building doors and windows out of planks and 1x4’s.  It was a challenge to make straight cuts with old saws but also a privilege to serve.  It’s great to be a part of the positive impact that this house will have on this young family. 

Greg was able to make a short trip to visit Anna Rosa, one of his family’s sponsored children.  The visit had been put off because she had spent 4 days in the hospital due to an amoeba that had caused her breathing problems.  Praise God she was able to get the health care she needed.

The ladies headed off to visit family members in their homes.  They were also able to present needy students at the school with school clothes.  The clothes were possible due to the sponsorship program.  It was a blessing to see this community benefiting in so many different ways.

After lunch Dale, Zach and Bob headed out to visit the last of the sponsored children.  They initiated a new activity on the visits.  Along with a few small trinkets, they brought fruit trees and planted them with the kids.  We look forward to seeing the trees grow into another resource in the community.

Lori and Corianne shared the last 2 days of the creation story with the kids in VBS.  It has been so exciting to share with them the love God showed us all in that process.  The children have learned so much and were ahead of the game in reviewing all the lessons of the week.

Greg and Misti finished the last of the window security shutters.  And then were able to lay the last of the cinderblocks for the foundation of the new house.  Enemencio, the job foreman will return to complete the framing of the house next week.  We look forward to returning and seeing the house completed.

Today began the food-byes, Wilmon our excellent interpreter and a young pastor with lots of energy left to return home.  We will miss him.  We thank God for the excellent people God has privided to support us!

This evening we showed a movie that many members of the community watched.  The crowds seem to be more and more filled with new faces and more grown-ups.  Praise God for the work he is doing here.