God's plan

What a week. God had an AMAZING plan for this past week but it not match up with ours. First, the team was supposed to arrive here on Tuesday but instead they arrived on Wednesday. This really messed up "our" plans, but we have no idea what God saved us from that night as we didn't go to the ariport. There could have been some accident or someone who was going to follow us and chase us down. God kept us safe from all that by keeping us form the airport on Tuesday night.

Thursday we started building and boy, did we ever build. We had the house standing before lunch and the roofs and the patios on JUST beofore the rain. Usually this takes 2 days to finish. On the second building day, we applyed the stucco and painted the inside of the houses and decorated. After lunch, we dedicated 2 of the 5 houses. God showed up and did amzing things at these 2 houses. The next day, we packed two vans and took one of them to La Reina (the village where we build) and dediacted the other 3 houses. 2 of these 3 families accepted Jesus as their Savior, please be in prayer for Rodolfo and his son Leonel as they had excues and ran away for Jesus that day. Also pray for Carolina (Rodolfo's wife) and Ingrid and Veronica that they will be a good example of a Christ Follower to their husband/father and son/brother.

After the dedications, we left to go to the village to do a medical clinic. On the way, the rain started and it rained and rained and rained! Usually the rain would not be a problem but the intresting thing about this village is that it is a squatter's village which means that the people living there are just "squatting" there until the government tells them to move. And so here they didn't have a school or any good place where we could go out of the rain. We sat in the vans and waited and waited for the rain to let up. I think we waited for a hour and finally Dan decided to just leave but GOD did not want us to leave; HE flooded the roads so we really couldn't leave. Finally the rain let up and we set up the clinc under a tarp. God showed HIMSELF strong at this village and many people came to know Christ as their Savior including the team members.

At the second clinc God showed up again and lives were changed including my own. This week God really taught me to TRUST in HIS plan because "As for the LORD, His ways are perfect..." ~2 Samuel 22:31