Day 19

Hello everyone, Kev has been doing a great job writing these blog updates, and now Im taking a turn on this one :) Thank you for all of your prayers and support, we are so grateful to have such great family and friends who are praying for us and what God is doing here in Vicente Guerro! One of the outreach projects Welcome Home Ministries facilitates is handing out food bags consisting of rice, beans, oil, lentils, corn masa and flour. When there is extra money left over after teams have paid to build a house, this is one of the additional projects we encourage teams to take part in, a great way to spend left over money and greatly bless those in need.  Over the summer this is one of the tasks I am responsible for helping with. Jackie and I spent the first half of the day driving to the warehouse and purchasing all the food. We then spent the afternoon measuring out proportions and bagging the items up.

The next day Jackie, Meghan and I opened the front doors and passed out one food bag per family that was waiting in line. We ended up giving out about 70 food bags, praise the Lord for providing!

The line of people stayed consistent for 2 hours!

Once a month the staff does a little birthday fiesta for all the kids whose birthdays fall in that particular month. For this month we celebrated miss Julissa, Paula and Sarah's birthdays, they get the honor of sitting in the front of the cafeteria at the special birthday table. They are each giving one present and Brigi (a member of our staff, the school director) bakes a huge cake for all the kids to enjoy. This is a very special day for the kids each month because for many it is the only piece of birthday cake they will eat, the only present they may receive and the only birthday "party" they will have. It was so touching to see these little girl's faces light up with such joy over anticipation of the cake and their one present. We have a lot to learn from these little ones who are so excited and content with so little. 

Cande our sweet kitchen cook, who has been here for 22 yrs & Abel our bus driver joined the birthday girls at the table.

God has deeply blessed us and our time here, serving at Welcome Home Outreach Ministries, we are fortunate to have this opportunity! We are also reminded that no matter where you are living, there is a mission field close by, there are so many unsaved souls that surround us everyday, so many who don't know our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. You don't have to go far or look very hard to find mission work to do, even in your own neighborhoods. We are called to love as Christ loved, to serve, to be His hands and feet, to reach the lost, broken, hurting and sick and to share with them the love of Christ.  We encourage you to spend less, give more,  to think globally and act locally,  invest in others lives and love the unlovable.

"If you can't feed 100 people, start by feeding just 1." -Mother Teresa

 LOVE IS THE MOVEMENT