Our Wednesday was a full and productive day. After our worship/Bible study time, we sent a team to continue painting at the seminary, a team to paint the interior of the auditorium at Rios de Agua Viva Church, two teams to mix/pour cement, a team to build the 15th house, and a team to complete house number fourteen.
The house building team was led by Matt DeYoung and consisted of our other six high school students and one college student. They built a nice house! All fifteen houses have now been built with fourteen of those being completely finished. The fifteenth one will receive cement today.
We left at 3:30PM to drive to Comalapa to distribute food and clothing to one hundred families. This is the same town where Bro. Jerry’s team ministered during June. A group of ladies sang while our folks readied for the distribution. The Pastor then brought a message encouraging the folks to receive Jesus as their personal Savior. Our team then distributed the provisions to the families and Mark Mast gave each family a Gospel tract as they left the building. A good evening of ministry!
Wayne DeYoung suggested that we put gravel on the drive from the gate to the paved portion. The drive has gotten really rough and is very slippery during the rainy season. So, the past two days have seen us unload twenty cubic meters of gravel and place it in the holes. The Lord has blessed as we have been getting rain for the past couple of days/nights which is helping the gravel pack into the ground. Our original plan was to pave all the way down the hill but this is much, much more economically friendly. Thanks Wayne!
Danny LeBlanc replaced the carburetor on our mower yesterday. I mention this only because it is about the only productive thing Danny has done on this trip and it took him all day to accomplish this feat! Thanks Danny!
We are down to our last day which means a day of house dedications plus finishing up some painting at RAV and GBS.
This team has been great. I apologize for the fact that our VOIP phone has been down. Dean Parker and the folks at Callis Communications in Mobile have been great in their efforts to correct the problem. It now appears that the problem has to do with the internet provider here and Jim Dornbush and Juan Marcos Ruiz have been working diligently to restore phone service too. We have survived without a phone!
Jan Kapenga’s hand is better but she did suffer a pretty severe burn as she has one huge blister and a number of smaller blisters. She has simply kept on going as she has done well in helping prepare the meals. Thanks to those who have prayed for her.
As always, thank you for reading these entries and thank you for praying for us.