A Day in the Life...
Here's what today looked like:
7:30am - Meet re: day's events, pray for team
8:00am - Breakfast with team
9:15am - Worship
10:15am - Leave for Soup Kitchen (see below)
5:30pm - Supper at the Base
6:45pm - Leave for Hospital
10:00pm - Return home
The Soup Kitchen was awesome. We cooked food and fed about 40 children and a few of their parents. After we were getting ready to wrap things up, I saw a young boy who was interested in what we were doing. We had left over food so I offered him some. He asked if he could get meals for his family as well. I told him he could and followed him to his house and carried the drinks for him. When I got to his house, I noticed something seemed different about this area. All the houses nearby looked like they were being unassembled. They were basically being taken down as the people were notified that they would have to leave the property they were living on within 48 hours. It broke my heart to see an area that was already in very humble condition, only to understand that everyone was basically being evicted. I guess that's life as a squatter.
So, that's when God stirred a few people's hearts and the action began. One of the students asked if we could cook what we had left of the food, and we did. Be then went mobile with our Soup Kitchen since we knew many of these people didn't have time to make it over to where we held it at due to the move they needed to make. We ended up blessing about 30-40 families with an unexpected lunch and offered prayer and encouragement and the love of Christ.
As if it can't get any better than that, a family I had previously visited with a few weeks back in this area showed up again. A few weeks ago the mother had mentioned to me that she was trying to save money to buy a Nebulizer for her 6-year-old daughter Diana who has Asthma. Oddly enough, I mentioned that to the team we were working with when Karla, one of the team members said, "I have a nebulizer sitting at home that was only used twice if she wants it."
I am blown away how 2-3 weeks ago we prayed with this family that God would provide a way for her to either come up with the money or somehow provide a nebulizer for her. I had no idea He would do it through another team member coming back to visit that same area.
At the hospital, we had the priviledge of praying with a woman whose 21 year-old son, a Domino's Pizza delivery driver, suffered a severe head trauma in an accident. He has been in a coma and unresponsive for a week now. She is a believer and is trusting God for a miracle. He has a wife and 3 year-old child.
God, you amaze me! Please forgive me for believing in coincidences...I've been blessed to see so many things happen this year that have your signature all over them. Thank you for the priviledge to witness these things. Please touch William, the 21 year-old man who is in a coma in the hospital in Monterrey.
7:30am - Meet re: day's events, pray for team
8:00am - Breakfast with team
9:15am - Worship
10:15am - Leave for Soup Kitchen (see below)
5:30pm - Supper at the Base
6:45pm - Leave for Hospital
10:00pm - Return home
The Soup Kitchen was awesome. We cooked food and fed about 40 children and a few of their parents. After we were getting ready to wrap things up, I saw a young boy who was interested in what we were doing. We had left over food so I offered him some. He asked if he could get meals for his family as well. I told him he could and followed him to his house and carried the drinks for him. When I got to his house, I noticed something seemed different about this area. All the houses nearby looked like they were being unassembled. They were basically being taken down as the people were notified that they would have to leave the property they were living on within 48 hours. It broke my heart to see an area that was already in very humble condition, only to understand that everyone was basically being evicted. I guess that's life as a squatter.
So, that's when God stirred a few people's hearts and the action began. One of the students asked if we could cook what we had left of the food, and we did. Be then went mobile with our Soup Kitchen since we knew many of these people didn't have time to make it over to where we held it at due to the move they needed to make. We ended up blessing about 30-40 families with an unexpected lunch and offered prayer and encouragement and the love of Christ.
As if it can't get any better than that, a family I had previously visited with a few weeks back in this area showed up again. A few weeks ago the mother had mentioned to me that she was trying to save money to buy a Nebulizer for her 6-year-old daughter Diana who has Asthma. Oddly enough, I mentioned that to the team we were working with when Karla, one of the team members said, "I have a nebulizer sitting at home that was only used twice if she wants it."
I am blown away how 2-3 weeks ago we prayed with this family that God would provide a way for her to either come up with the money or somehow provide a nebulizer for her. I had no idea He would do it through another team member coming back to visit that same area.
At the hospital, we had the priviledge of praying with a woman whose 21 year-old son, a Domino's Pizza delivery driver, suffered a severe head trauma in an accident. He has been in a coma and unresponsive for a week now. She is a believer and is trusting God for a miracle. He has a wife and 3 year-old child.
God, you amaze me! Please forgive me for believing in coincidences...I've been blessed to see so many things happen this year that have your signature all over them. Thank you for the priviledge to witness these things. Please touch William, the 21 year-old man who is in a coma in the hospital in Monterrey.
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