Number 7 Widow's Mite

Monday, September 3, 2012

Continued growth in El Doradito...

Every Sunday that we're available we head out to the village to do some teaching, preaching, and youth activities with the people. We're trying very hard to remain focused on the spiritual goals here and not just the humanitarian side of things. That's not always easy to do when God has exploded the building process the way He has. We now have 18 homes complete an occupied by families who can't believe their good fortune.

But....these homes are meant to be tools or door openers for us to share the gospel of Jesus Christ, and as such, they are great tools. Because of the sweat equity we have in each one of their homes they will listen to us, trust us, and allow us to teach them the tenets of Jesus Christ and how to begin to walk with Him! This week as I was addressing the village I had to stop mid-message to allow four people to come forward to make professions for Jesus! We are intentionally going very, very slow in our teachings, attempting to set a solid foundation, to break up fallow ground, and to plant seeds in fertile ground! We're not enticing them into making public professions so we can count their numbers; we're leaving the decisions up to them. We ask them each week to consider it, to think on it, and then tell them it's their decision and they can do it wherever and whenever they please.

It's so neat to see their attitudes toward each other, toward their children, toward the land they live on changing so dramatically without us directing them to change. The Holy Spirit is moving in them in unmistakable ways and we continue telling them God has chosen them for a very special work. As they learn more and more about their Father in heaven they are beginning to see that they are important, not because of what they have or what they've accomplished; but because of who has chosen them! With that understanding comes self-respect and with self-respect comes the ability to believe that God can use even them for some special work.

In addition to my teachings we now have Will working with the youth of the village and his girlfriend Alba is working with the younger children. We are really beginning to become a community, a family...and it feels so good! Please pray that our ears and hearts will stay open to the urgings of the Holy Spirit, and that we might continue to help this special group of people find their walk with Him!

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Sleep well little child...

Thanks to a donation from Orphan's Heart we were able to purchase and assemble 9 bunk bed sets or 18 beds for children of the village who will be moving into their new homes this week!!!

Wonder who gets the top bunk?

Some weren't so little....

So eager to hit his new bed he's a blur!

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

And one more time...thanks to all who provided...

The trip to Roatan was one of the highlights of our lives over these past 3-1/2 years together. Again thanks to Linda Coello, our Cepudo partner, to Joseph Natale, owner of Club Natale, who provided free lodging, and to Mandy Wagner of Anthony's Key Resort who granted the children a free experience they'll never forget in the dolphin encounter! These three made it possible for us to take the kids on an adventure that otherwise would never have happened! One of the ways God blesses us is by the people He puts in our paths...thank you, God, for these three!!!