June 30th, 2008

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MONDAY, 6/30/08 – DAY IV

Monday, June 30th, 2008

I have to take a personal privilege and wish our daughter, Daphne, and her husband, Brad, a happy first wedding anniversary.  On one hand it is hard to believe it has been a year and then it seems it has been much longer.  At any rate, I hope they had a great day today!  I love you guys! 

We had a good day with some bumps in the road.  “Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape” is our motto and it has been tested today.  I realized after our devotional this morning that we were doing a village ministry tonight.  So, we had to change plans as far as our house building was concerned.  We built three more houses and cemented three others.  That was good! 

We bought the necessary food supplies for the village ministry and gathered what clothes we had to distribute.  We were on time until the muffler decided to literally fall off the truck and wrapped itself around some other part.  We went to plan B and loaded everyone into one van and the supplies in the other van.  Samuel Acan cut one of his fingers pretty severely while we were unloading the truck.  The third van was still in the village with the building team.  Raymond Wilkinson came and got another truck and all was well.  The distribution of the food and clothes went well as we saw 294 folks.  A local pastor preached and we had a good night. 

I left the village and went to pick up Pastor Max Lara’s family for supper.  I cut too short coming out of their garage and shattered one of the back side windows while putting a few scrapes on the van too.  How stupid is that?  Oh well, I get to go into Guatemala City early in the morning to exchange vehicles because the glass is falling out. 

I got back to the house around 7:30PM and Caroline Ford is not happy because the dry beans are not done.  She says they are hard.  So, supper has been delayed. 

However, God has given us a wonderful weather day and it really couldn’t have been more perfect for the village ministry.  We were in a very small church building and it would have been impossible to put all the folks inside if the rains had come.  God is good! 

To the person who e-mailed me today with a confidential prayer request, please know that I am praying.  Let me know the end results of that situation.

I have gotten several e-mails from members of the Friendship family telling me that the services went well yesterday.  That is good to know. 

Lord willing, I will be back with another entry tomorrow night.  Pray for us! 

 

 

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SUNDAY, 6/29/08 – DAY III

Monday, June 30th, 2008

A blessed Sunday!  We had our devotional time at 7:30AM and then left immediately for a church service.  I made the decision yesterday that we would attend a service at Pastor Max Lara’s house with his family and a few others.  This allowed us to see Estuardo and to pray for him.  The Lara family sang, our group sang a couple of songs, and Pastor Max preached.  Of course, this took place in Pastores which is where we got our start in Guatemala thanks to Evangelist Danny Lafferty.  Precious memories!

After the service we made our way to Antigua and Las Antorchas.  We were there early and Philippe Rambert and staff had us in and out in no time.  The group was busy shopping by noon and shopped until 3:30PM or so.  I came back to the mission house to pray! 

Samuel Acan has moved to the mountain temporarily.  He is staying in John & Laurie King’s casita for the next month or so.  This is a big help to him and us as he doesn’t need transportation from and to his house each day.  Samuel wanted me to be sure and give Betty Creech a shout!  Love is in the air?  He can’t wait until July 19th! 

Morris and Diane Bryant are right – Whitney is strictly a “need to know” person.  She doesn’t volunteer any information unless you ask her specifically.  Example:  I have “led” our musical worship for the first two mornings while lamenting the fact that this group had no one to lead us.  This afternoon Mary Hall tells me that Nathn Searcy is a gifted guitarist.  Nathan just happens to be Whitney’s boyfriend.  I guess she didn’t know he could play the guitar.  He is now our worship leader for the rest of this trip!  God is good!

I also learned tonight that Callie Wheatley is a pianist.  So, tomorrow morning she makes her debut as a pianist for GRACE Ministries!  God is good! 

Tonight was such a romantic night!  First, one of our batchelors (they have to remain anonymous) wrote a poem called “Jessica’s Sonnet” and he allowed me to read it to the whole group.  It was so sweet!  We have been playing “The Dating Game” in hopes of hooking the Hall twins up with Batchelor #1, #2, or #3.  We know they have boyfriends back in the States but this is just for this week.  The twins aren’t cooperating but we press on!  That’s the way we roll! 

Then, Nathan plays and sings this song he wrote just for Whitney!  Something about missing Virginia, Miss Virginia, West Virginia, whatever!  The ladies cried and thought is was just too sweet!  Please! 

Kevin Vice asked me to tell his daughter that he will be sending an e-mail to her in the next day or so.  He has read the blog. 

We did see a miracle today!  Kayla Brown, the one with the “severly” twisted ankle, the one who had to literally be carried everywhere yesterday and this morning, the one who missed her rotation on kitchen duty this morning because she couldn’t walk, the one who knows how to “milk” a situation, was remarkably healed just in time to go shopping today.  She walked with no limp and no ill effects from her tragic injury!  Hallelujah! 

Bro. Jerry sent me an e-mail saying all is well at home.  He complimented Kathy & Tammy for their ministry through song today.  Many members of our team send their greetings.  We prayed specifically for the services at Friendship today.  Pray for us Monday as we go back to the building sites. 

  

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