Gift

 

 

It's been a hard week of spiritual attack.  One of those weeks when you have to keep reciting truth to yourself every minute - even when you can't see it or feel it.  I 'd been remembering the verse about streams in the desert and asking God to find the 'Lo, a spring of Joy I see.'  I was kind of wanting some tangible way to show that God was listening to me.  Well,  this was my gift from God.  A whole bag of lime/oranges!   In the desert with very little produce a whole bag of oranges is a 'over and above' - stream in the desert type of gift.  Thank you Lord for listening and loving me. 

 

 

Electricity

In the past year electricity has been hooked up to several villages.    The first village the government actually wired into each house a few lights and plug ins.  Then in our village they wired two houses.  From now on people are on their own to wire houses.  
Everyone has been asking Dennis to do the work.  But Dennis saw this as a great opportunity to train Macario (baptized believer) to make some income as well as being trained in a trade.  Last week they were wiring houses for 3 days - this week one day.  Macario is learning well - although he lacks confidence and often questions his own choices.  But he's doing fine.  He also has work making adobe bricks and soap.  Today we talked about  God has been providing for his family - even without planting the *****.   Praise God for taking care of their needs.

Recently Macario was told that their 1 year old baby is sick because she hasn't been baptized the Guarijio way (they do this for all babies).  But the family is saved now and didn't baptize their little girl.   Not to mention that the whole village is sick with colds and flu and their baby was no worse off than the rest!     Macario asked Dennis recently if we baby baptized our children.  I believe he knew he was doing the right thing - and just wanted to be able to say - well Dennis didn't baptize his babies either!  Macario is an unlikely leader .  But God is using him for some major trail blazing in his culture.  Pray for him!