Yes, four walls usually equals a house but in this case the Winkler MB church youth and later the adult team managed to put up four walls in addition to a little one room house for a young woman in need in a needy area of Guaymas called Fatima.
I'm sure many of you have heard about the pastoral house project that we have taken on this winter and I want to share just one of the stories that have come out of working in that community.
Last spring we were handing out food hampers in Fatima with a team. Each recipient was asked if there was something that we could pray for. One young lady, Elsa shared about her lifestyle caught in drugs and how she wanted to be free from that. The team prayed for her and to God's glory, shortly after that she left that lifestyle and began regularly attending Pastor Rafael's church where she still goes.
She has two sons, one two year old and a 3 month old. Her husband left her and she was living with her mother though it was not a healthy environment for neither herself or her sons. When the youth group came on the scene, she was living in the church temporarily until something else could be arranged.
Her situation touched the hearts of several people on the team and they as a group decided to take a love offering to raise money to build her a place to live. The next day they began to put up a 12' by 16' quarter on a piece of property donated by a member of Pastor Rafael's church. They finished the house and the adult team that came in right after them were able to paint and furnish the place. The last evening they were in Mexico, they were able to deliver the keys over to her in an emotional farewell.
The pastoral house projects is still going and we praise God for providing for these types of physical needs but we praise God even more for touching people's lives as He did in Elsa's case and as He does so often!
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