Tuesday 26 March 2019

#lhmex2019 - Tuesday, March 26

Build Day 2

It's a long one today, brought to you by Clarissa.

This morning one of the guys woke the rest up at 6. While he got a lot of flack for it, he was thanked by some who feel they did benefit from it. 

Today was an earlier day because it's the second build day, with breakfast at 7. We left the base for the build site at 8:40 after morning devotions, arriving shortly after 9. We started with a circle of prayer for the day, family, and house.  Dividing into groups of roof, trim, painting, and shopping crews, the work began.

The roofing crew was super fast and finished the shingles in 40 minutes. Inside the house things were going a bit slower, as the trim people had to work around the painters and vis versa. 

While we were working on the house, the women of the family were working on lunch for us. They made us Empanadas and they were delicious! After lunch the shopping crew ventured out with the family while the rest finished the house and assembled the furniture package. 

Camryn and I got to join the group for shopping. When we got to the store the family was told how much money we approximately had. The first thing that they wanted was a blender. The second was a fridge. A fridge is expensive, so we made sure we paid for it first to know how much we had left to spend, and loaded it into the van. Then continued with the rest of the shopping. It's kinda weird for me to follow people while they shop, but to watch them, especially the Grandma was amazing! Both the kids were able to pick out toys as well, there was crying in the car when they weren't able to temporarily hold them.

Getting home we drove Mexican style in the van, as the fridge took up three seats. Arriving back at the house, we saw that it has been completed all the site had been cleaned up. We unloaded the groceries and the fridge and brought it all into the house, while the family watched from a distance.

We then took a picture with everyone in front of the house, one picture was printed out and put on a plaque for the family. Then a circle was made and everyone got a chance to hold the keys to the house and say a few words to the family, and the house was prayed over.

The moment the family entered the house was amazing, there were screams of joy! We joined them shortly after, took pictures and said goodbye.

Session this evening was another tough one with lots for the students to think about. Again there were tears, and walk and talks after. It's amazing to see God working through everyone!

*thanks Clarissa!

Prayer requests:
1. Tomorrow, we're entering a different style of ministry, while these past two days have been absolutely amazing - they've been more project based.  As we enter ministry over the next three days, we'll be doing more relational work, conversations with people.  Pray that we all may be bold & effective.
2. We're at the point in our trip where we start feeling tired.  We've been away from home for 5 days, been doing a lot of driving around, and staying up late, and getting up early.  Pray that we'll remain strong and fit for these days ahead.

A few pictures from the day:



^ the best roof crew ever!!! We shingled the whole roof in 40minutes - Our team leader (Ismael, on the left) was pretty impressed.


^ trim work on the interior.  Instead of mudding and taping the drywall, trim covers all the seems.


^ lunch time.



















^ completed house with our whole team, and the family in the middle.



^ our team has been making great use out of this volleyball court on the base.  It's an odd size, and don't get too caught off guard by the exposed rebar everywhere, but when we have down time, even if only for 15 minutes, our team is found here.  It's been a riot to watch those who know the game coach those who don't.  Of all those prayers for unity, many are being answered here.

editors note (adam): To the parents of these students - your students are AMAZING.  They press through the challenges and serve to the best of their abilities.  They step up and ask where else they can serve.  The go the extra mile.  They love what they're doing here.  They're deeply learning from our sessions and team times.  It's an honour to share this week with them.  It's a privilege to walk along side them on this journey.  You're all so blessed to call these students your children.  Thanks for sharing them with me for this week.  We as leaders are so very proud of them, for their efforts of inclusion, work-ethic, desire to have fun, & evidenced spiritual depth in each one of them.  They're all safe, happy, and healthy.  And I think a few of them have grown another inch.  That might have been the taco's the other day ...


1 comment:

  1. Thank you for the blog reports and the pictures:) Praying for good health and safety as you continue to serve this week in Mexico! God is good!
    Ann Oenema

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