Welcome Hopewell Baptist Church Team Two

Last Thursday we dropped team one of Hopewell Baptist Church off and picked up team two.  This team was a much younger group of people who came ready to serve their Lord.  Both teams came with many different gifts and we are fixing to find out what these young men and women brought to the beautiful country of Honduras.  For some on this team this was their very first international mission trip and they said it was nothing like what they expected but it was so very much more than they could have ever imagined.  They came lined up with job duties which started each morning at five a.m. and they did not stop until after the supper dishes of each evening.  They all pitched in and got done what needed to get done for their daily tasks for their Lord.  I shared one evening during some very powerful devotionals and God moments these young people are the future of this ministry and I praise God for their enthusiasm  for missions and for the love they have for our Lord and Savior at such a young age. What a privilege to serve beside of each of you this week.  

Greetings to Ms. Alendra

We arrive to El Limonal with a greeting from an older young lady age 70 who has had a hard life and her face showed how hard it was  and still is at times.  Three plus years ago this team prayed for this community to get papers for their properties so we could build homes in El Limonal.  Three years later this very team who prayed over this community in the home of Rodd and Rita are now building a home for a lady who could use a lot of love and support.  God picked just the right team for the job.  Not only did this team come to build a home but they came to build relationships and trust amongst some precious people who work hard daily just to make basic ends meet.  Ms. Alondra was greeted with hugs from Sandy and Rita as the men brought the tools and materials down the path from the vehicles.  Everyone brought something in their hands as they made their first trip down to a life changing week for all of us.  The metal structure is her kitchen.  She was staying with some family members while waiting for her home to be built.  We gathered to meet her and her nephew, Eddie and friend Sammie who helped us all week build her home.  Pastor Larry introduced the team and thanked her for allowing us to be apart of something she has prayed for a very long time.  Pastor Larry was grateful to God for letting this team be chosen for such a special task.  

God is good all the time and all the time God is good.

Rodd's Block Cutting Crew

As the team waited for the four corners to be set, return team member, Rodd, went to start his part of this house becoming a home, cutting the 160 plus special order blocks.  Rodd started lining up his blocks in rows as some of the team saw the need to go and assist Rodd to make this part of the project go easier and quicker for our friend Rodd.  Everyone pitched in bringing block after block as Rodd proceeded to cut each block and then they placed them in a location where they could be grabbed as needed in making Eufemia's house a home.  This team exhibited team effort the entire week with one another and gave God all the glory for each and every block cut, placed and used in this project.  Rodd shared in his devotional how we are the hands and feet here in Honduras and we show His Love to all these beautiful people.  But he challenged us all to make sure we go back home and be the hands and feet of Jesus at our home, work and school.  The same God in Honduras is back home as well.  God knows every hair on our head, He knows are very thoughts.  Our life here on this side of Heaven is short lived, but eternity is forever.  How are we going to leave this world?  By showing equal love to everyone to make sure they hear the good news of Jesus Christ.  Do not let a day go by where you do not share the gospel of Jesus Christ with someone if we don't it could cost them their eternal lives and they will go straight to Hell. 

Just like everyone pitched in with Rodd to get those blocks lined up ready to cut and be used we should pitch in and help this broken world receive the greatest gift of all, Jesus Christ.   If you are  reading this today and do not know this Jesus Christ who is our Rock, our Fortress, our Sustaniner, our Deliverer, our Grace, our Mercy and our Peace in this broken world please do not let this day go and pass by without talking to a pastor or a friend who knows Jesus Christ as their Lord Savior.  Please receive the greatest gift of all, JESUS!!!!!

First Block

Every project is so very different which is what makes my job here so awesome.  We arrive and start wondering where is the water coming from to mix the mortar.  We looked down at the back of the property where there is well.  Eddie and Sammie were pulling up buckets of water and taking over to where the barrels were kept near the mescal mixing station. So our young people took off down there to help haul the water over to the mescal station.  They hauled bags of cement from another house, Ana, her neighbor who was storing the 50 bags of cement for Eufema.  

There was some of the young people sifting the sand through the screen to get the sand just like it needs to be to go into the pile to be mixed with the bags of cement.  There is a special recipe for the mixture and it took Eddie and Sammie two tries to get like Pastor Carlos wanted it but they did persevered and did so all week for Alondra and the team. Tino was the Boss of the Mescal Station and did quiet a good job for his team, even hauling the buckets of mud up to the project site along with Justin. Justin shared during God moments that evening how he wanted to share his story with these two for some reason.  Justin felt God tugging at him to share your story.  As Pastor Larry says we all have a story.  Well finally on the fourth day after building relationships around the mescal pile which including Cameron enjoying a coke in a bag one hour after being on the project the first day and knuckle pounding daily, relationships had began to form where Justin felt comfortable sharing his story and then they prayed together at the end.  There was a reason Justin needed to share his story because his story was similar to Eddie's and Sammie's story.  Justin quit going to church as middle schooler and did not need God in his life, so had these two young men as well.  They did not see the need for church or God really either.  Justin shared once he figured out how desperately his life needed God at the center of it and he changed his life to live for Jesus Christ how much better his daily life had become.  Living for Jesus can bring complete joy and peace which you cannot explain just enjoy it and live it out daily.  Prayers for Eddie and Sammie as they continue their journey of life and pray they continue to seek God for all they need on a daily basis.

Four Corners and More

There is a lot to prepare for the first block to go into place.  Rodd's blocking cutting crew and Cameron and Justin's mescal crew.  Now Pastor Carlos has got some of them placing the four corner stones for this home.  Some of these young people do block work for a living and learned some new ways to level the foundation for the first course of the day.  Praise God for their willingness to learn a new way to level a home.  They were also grateful there wasn't an inspection crew coming around to make sure it was correctly done  Pastor Carlos was the inspector and he was pleased with how all corners went in and impressed with these young peoples' willingness to work beside him and serve our Lord in such a way as this week started to unfold.  Pastor Larry was busy making sure everyone was safe on the job site along with Rita.  Together they dug up a stump several of us were tripping over the first morning.    There is always a job to do when your heart is right and willing.  This team had a spirit filled heart this week and it showed in all they did.  They not only built Eufemia a home but built lasting relationships in El Limonal.   Thank you all for coming prepared to serve our Lord on many levels.

Pastor Larry shared several times how the cornerstone is most important.  It holds the home together on a firm foundation.  Just like the cornerstone of this home our firm foundation and cornerstone is in Jesus Christ our Lord.  We need to be grounded in His Word on a daily basis as Cameron shared one evening during his devotional time.  If these people do not remember me, Cameron, I pray they will remember the footprints of Jesus at El Limonal this week.  God's Spirit was with us this week and His Creation was all around us, His beautiful sunsets and sunrises, even the rolling green mountains that surround Mount Horeb.  This place is a place of finding peace with our Lord and Savior if we only take the time.  We all are filled with overflowing this week with the Spirit of our Lord and Savior, Our Cornerstone, don't let this excitement for our Lord, our burning fire get burned out once we return to our lives back in the states.  Let this time here stay always close to our hearts.  I am overwhelmed with a full heart right now as I type this knowing this young man shared from his heart and knowing all these young people here this week are the future of this ministry and leading others to Christ back home in North Carolina.  It is exciting to see young people come to Honduras and they get it!!!  They get what it is like to see pure joy in Christ in the lives of these Honduran people.  How they truly rely on Jesus Christ for their daily needs.  Thank you God for Cameron's new eyes reminding me as well as others it is only about Jesus and not about us!!!

Prayers For First Block

We gathered Eufemia and her family members who live around her to gather around the first block as we were preparing to lift up this home unto the Lord.  Pastor Larry led the prayer and shared how the cornerstone is Jesus Christ over this home as we begin our week making these 800 blocks into a home where Eufemia will be safe and dry for the rest of her days here on this side of Heaven.  Eufemia carried a hard face but as her week was unfolding with her new Christian brothers and sisters the hardness starting cracking right off her face.  Eufemia has a beautiful smile but as the week progressed Sandy and Rita after sharing with her found out her life has been a hard one.  She had lost her husband and three of her children plus has several health issues herself.  So this morning when we prayed over this first block, Eufemia for the first time in a very long time saw hope in her life.  Eufemia is 70 years old and has never owned a home where she could feel safe and dry during the rainy season.  This week God is answering a prayer for her which she has prayed for a very long time.  Grateful to God for Meida who Eufemia trusted and loved during this week as she helped Sandy and Rita share with her words of encouragement and love of Jesus.  

Before this first block was prayed over Aubrey and Ashley met some of the young girls in the community, one named Fernanda who became friends very quickly as you can see in the pictures above.  This team did so much more than build a home this week, they shared Jesus with a community who was hurting on so many different levels.  Thank you for utilizing Meida this week to share the love of Jesus with El Limonal.

Let The Block Laying Begin

As I sat back to watch this morning unfold, I saw some very talented brick masons, Rex, Jason, Conor and Rome went to work placing that mortar just right upon the first course.  But then I look over at Sandy and Ashley, and Rita and Aubrey they as well were filling in those joints for Eufemia's home beautifully.  This group caught on real fast as they started layering the blocks one course at a time.  Justin and Cameron saw to it the mescal was being brought up in a timely fashion.   Please note the mescal pile was not anywhere near the project, it had to be hauled up the hill to the construction site.  The upside to the mescal station it was in the shade which helped keep the mescal coming quicker because there was less sun shining down upon those young men who worked hard all week providing what the block layers needed to get their job done.  Pastor Larry shared one evening how proud he was of each of them.  They all worked hard, sweated and poured the entire hearts into this home and never once complained they all just kept persevering in the name of Jesus.

Where Do I Put My Two Doors?

Eufemia for the first time in her life today got to decide where she would like her doors and windows to go in her new home.  Now our friend put one of her doors in the most unusual spot but once again it is her home.  We had Meida ask her about the back door being so high up once she got older and was not getting around as well.  She looked at Meida and said, "Then I will go out the front door."  You have to say that was quiet an impressive answer for this young lady of 70.  So Pastor Carlos respectfully put those doors where Eufemia had requested with a smile on his face.  I don't think he agreed with this either but it is not our home,  it is Eufemia's home.  Meida as always knew exactly how to ask and present the question in a way where Eufemia did not feel like someone was telling her what she should have done.  We are so grateful for our Meida who always shows the love of Jesus to everyone she meets. 

VBS

Sandy, thank you so much for your strength and perseverance of nine days of VBS with over 160 children.  You treated these little ones equally both weeks.  What warmed my heart the most was when you pulled out playdoh and puzzles for them to share together.  I am pretty sure these little brown eyed beauties had never played with playdoh or even worked a puzzle.  What joy you brought them with these two items.  Thank you Sandy for all the hard work you put into two weeks of VBS!!!!!  Job well done.  Each day Sandy shared the Bible story, either the Creation Story, Noah's Ark, Nicodemous , the birth of Jesus and on the last day Pastor Larry shared the salvation story.  After the story there was a coloring page and a craft to be made.  It was precious how she was able to get her crayons back each day by gingerly saying when you have completed your coloring page bring me your bag of crayons and I or one of my helpers will give you your materials for your craft.  What a wonderful idea and how well it worked for all of them.  Ashley and Aubrey were amazed how well all the children colored their pictures.  How they took great pride in their work and how eager they were to do their very best.  Rita was humbled by the special needs child who needed help with her coloring and craft.  After she finished she gave Rita a great big hug and thanked her for spending time with her on her work.  These young people learned how appreciative these children were with the most simple of task and activities.  Justin was in awe of how much fun they had playing with the playdoh.  Our young people found out quickly how much joy you can have with almost nothing at all as long as the love of Jesus is in the center of it.  I challenge all reading this today find true joy in the simple things of life.  It doesn't take anything to have complete joy, only Jesus!!!!

Mount Horeb Green Puzzle

I was so blessed this week to have a team who likes to work puzzles.  We brought back from our vacation a 1000 piece puzzle of Mount Horeb Ministry Campus.  It was not an easy task at all.  There was over 700 pieces that were different shades of green.  This puzzle was a picture of the ministry campus during the rainy season.  Oh my this was going to be hard.  But slowly one by one I had friends join me working on this puzzle.  As the week was coming to an end I left them one evening with about fifty or so pieces left.  I jokingly told them if you want breakfast you better finish that puzzle.  Pastor Larry hollered and said no worries I'm cooking your breakfast.  But I got there the next morning and my sweet puzzle crew had finished Mount Horeb Ministry Campus in the rainy season puzzle.  What I enjoyed most about this is seeing young people and a couple of older ones coming together around a table for hours sharing in fellowship and disconnected from the world.  Their world at that give time and moment was sitting around this table with one another sharing and laughing together.  They were able to relax and be still without a care in the world.  I love Mount Horeb Ministry Campus and all the memories we make here each and every week.  Thank you puzzle crew for a job well done.

Breakfast of Champions

You cannot come to Honduras without a good breakfast.  This team cooked a full course breakfast daily.  Thank you Rodd, Larry and Jason for a job well done.  On Sunday morning we got blessed with a very special blessings, bajadas.  Pastor Larry was preparing and praying for his sermon so Mike kicked in to help make this very special breakfast.   It consists of special tortilla shells, refried beans, creama, eggs and bacon.  You make it to your taste buds desires.  Thank you kitchen crew for all the delicious breakfasts all week.  God is so good!!!!!

Worship Time

Pastor Larry and Sandy spent two weeks with us in Honduras which means Pastor Larry got to preach twice.  Much to my surprise Pastor Larry had two completely different sermons.  Thank you Pastor Larry for sharing God's Word according to where God place you each week.  The pastor's wife opened the service with hymns of praise and worship unto the Lord.  We sang "How Great Thou Art", "What a Great Day", "Bienvendos", "Victory in Jesus" and as we were singing "Victory in Jesus" the power went out and the church continued singing and praising the Lord without the power.  All we needed was the power of the Holy Spirit which was in this place today!!!!  Pastor Arderon got up and welcomed us all to church.  

Pastor Larry got up to preach but prior to his sermon, he asked the pastor and his wife to step forward so he could pray over their lives as they lead this community and church.  Also there was an assistant pastor that Pastor Arderon wanted to come up as well.  

Pastor Larry brought the message from 2Kings 4:1-7.  "The Widows Olive Oil"  There was a lady in need who did not have any money for her family.  The Lord told her to bring all the clay pots to Him and as she did He filled them up to overflowing for her to sell.  There was more than enough for her and her son to live off.  But when the Lord filled up the last clay pot it was done.  God's provision for this lady and her son was more than enough for them to be able to live off of.  God also ask us for the impossible in our lives so He can perform miracles.  If life was easy for man, he would not need help from God.  God would not get any of the credit.  When we rely on God to help us with all our needs He gets the full credit for supplying our needs. Like the clay pots or vessels, Pastor Larry shared, we are God's vessels.  We need to be in church each Sunday to get filled up with overflowing so we can go out during the week and share the love of Jesus Christ with our community, El Limonal.  Whether we are out collecting firewood to cook with, making tortillas to sell, whatever we may be doing in our home or work place we need to be ready and fueled up to share Jesus Christ with others. in Jeremiah 18:1-6 it talks about vessels.  Pottery was marred in the potter's hand.  Just like this marred pottery are our lives.  We are all defective and God is in the business of molding us into who He wants us to become.  We are broken like the marred pottery and God is there to put us back together again.  God is there to fix our brokenness and make us complete in His will not ours.  But sadly some of us do not want to be changed.  We like living in our sinful lives.  We do not want to give up this life to live out a life with our Lord.  Don't want to give up the fun stuff in life.  The things that might be fun in our lives may separate us from our Heavenly Father. Also a vessel needs to be used.  It needs to come off the shelf and be used to supply the water we need to drink.  Like the vessel we need to be willing to get out of our comfort zone, get away where it is safe and get away from the pain in our lives and be willing to be a vessel for God to be emptied out and be used for the Kingdom Work.  In 2 Timothy 2:20-26  it talks of different gifts or qualities.  All of us are different vessels with gifts God has given us to use.  We do not need to waste these gifts and not give them out to others who need to hear the good news of Jesus Christ.  God needs to get rid of whatever does not glorify God in our lives.  In order to become who God wants us to be, the qualified vessel of Jesus Christ, we need to be in His Word daily.  We need to worship and praise Him.  We need to open our lives to God.  God knows and sees all we do.  We cannot hide our lives from God.   During the week you pour out yourself to your community and come back here on Sunday to be refilled with overflowing to go out again and share the love of Jesus with El Limonal.  Amen y amen.

Cornhole

If we were not working a puzzle we were having championship games of cornhole enjoying God's sunsets.  It became evident early on in the games, Rita, was the champion of cornhole.  She was all modest and shy but once she started throwing those bags a whole new human being was born.  Everyone wanted to be on Rita's team so they could win at cornhole.  It was a joyous time winning or loosing as these folks enjoyed good old fashion fellowship and laughter, once again making some amazing memories.  Thankful for these times on the multi-purpose porch.  Once again we got disconnected from our world and our world revolved around two big boards with a hole in it and bags full of sand or beans depending on what color bag you were holding.  The simple things in life are the most enjoyable.  Do I get an AMEN?!?

Roof Going Up

On day five we head out our last time to our special little piece of heaven called El Limonal.  As the roof was going up by Rex and Rome, Conor, Rodd, and Jason were making sure the tin was being sent up as needed.  Pastor Larry had confidence in his team to complete the job set out for them to do at this time and place this week.  It was a job well done by two young men who had not put a roof on a house before.  Once they got it figured out they worked diligently without stopping until the last screw was drilled into the tin.  Once again this group of young people were most impressive with their willingness to serve wherever they were needed.  There was not a task they did not take on and allow God to use them to completion.  These two were definitely out of their comfort zone up on that roof top but they learned how to do it the Honduran way and got it done in the name of Jesus. 

Hopewell Landscaping

As all this was going on the outside Hopewell Landscaping crew was busy at work.  Pastor Larry also helped with beautifying the landscape of Eufemia's new home.  Jason pitched in along with Rodd and Cameron to place rocks around the entire frontside of the home.  They pulled rocks from the back of the yard and brought them up the hill to the front side of the home.  Rodd took a hoe and leveled out the rocks as the wheelbarrow loads kept on coming.  This team went beyond their call of duty on this home for this sweet lady who stood back watching with tears in her eyes as all this was unfolding right before her.

Hopewell Housekeeping

As the roof was going up, the Hopewell Housekeeping was getting the rest of the home ready for the home dedication.  Meida and Rita worked hard on cleaning the mescal off the two doors.  Rodd and Pastor Carlos were working on something with the front door to make sure Eufemia could easily open and close it.  Brett was cleaning the mescal off the threshold of the back door.  Sandy took the broom from husband Larry and said let me finish sweeping the excess water out of the house.  Everyone worked hard on the inside of this home so it would be ready to be moved in by the afternoon.  

Blessings One Last Time

The team gathered around Eufemia as we prayed one more time.  This is a hard day as so many of us had already shared.  There was so much loved poured out this week in this community and God is to be glorified.  We built a home back in June for a lady named Ana and her son Berto.  The day after the home was competed and dedicated this family's husband and father died.  Rita and Sandy went over several days that week to Ana's home sharing scripture and praying with her over her loss.  Ana is still grieving the loss of her husband and we are all thankful to God that this group accepted the calling to come to Honduras to be a home but more to love a lady who was in a lot of pain.  On the last day there was a request from another family in the community for a lady dealing with depression and a lot of sickness.  Pastor Larry, Sandy, Rita and Meida went up the street to a home right next to the church.  This is a home they all had past all week going to VBS.  The team not realizing along the way there was a lady who was in such pain form depression but God knew and sent them to go to her and lift her up with prayer and scriptures of encouragement.  Sammie and Eddie saw Jesus all week in all who mixed mescal with them, Justin, Cameron, Jason and Brett.  These young people shared Jesus through their actions but more through the sweet Words of Jesus.  Thank you all who shared the love of Jesus either in Word or in laying a block, mixing mescal, filling a joint, putting on the roof or laying the floor.  The love of Jesus was definitely in this place this week.  To God be the glory!!!!!

House Becomes a Home

The time has come where all good things must come to an end.  There was lasting memories made at El Limonal this past week.  There was lasting relationships built amongst the Hondurans and the North Americans.  But most importantly amongst this amazing team of young people.  We all gathered around the home as eyes started filling up with tears of joy for Eufemia.  Pastor Larry shared with her as on the first day we prayed over her first block, the cornerstone, today we are all going to pray over this house which has now become a home.  This is a home where you will be a light for your community.  Your home will radiate the love of Jesus as each and every person walks into it.  Pastor Larry shared as he gave her the key to her home this home will be safe from the bad in this world and will keep her warm and dry as the rainy seasons come and go.  She gripped tightly to God's Word as he handed her the Bible.  She held it close to her heart. Pastor Larry had everyone gather around the home and lay hands over it as well seal this home to completion with a closing prayer of dedication. Throughout the dedication Pastor Larry shared several scripture passages of encouragement to Eufemia and her life ahead.  For once in her life she has hope that transcends all her understanding.  As she unlocked her new home and entered it she invited us all to come and fellowship with her.  The team gathered around her and sang "Blessed Assurance" for her and loved her one more time.  

Fellowship

This team spent a lot of time sharing around the dinner table, puzzle table and just around the table.  The older gentlemen of this team really reached out to our young men on this team with some very precious times of listening and sharing from each others hearts.  This is how you make disciples.  Simply take the time to listen and learn from one other through the scriptures of our Lord and Savior.  Mike and I just stood back and watched how God worked through this team this week in so many ways.  We enjoy it when a team comes down and they spend quality time together and even separately in quiet times before their Lord on Mount Horeb.  There was a lot of this spiritual food being produced this week.  This was more than building a home this week, this was a week of building relationships and true godly relationships which will last a very long time.  What a blessing from God this week unfolded into.

Pastor Larry and Sandy

 A huge thank you to Pastor Larry and his lovely and godly wife Sandy who led two teams back to back this month.  This took a lot of commitment and endurance on both their parts.  They did it with grace and lots of love which only God could provide.  What an example they set for all of us who are serving our Lord.   They never wavered at all.  They encouraged and love on both teams as if they were the only team.  They worked diligently both weeks and did it to completion all to God be the glory.  We are grateful to have a team leader who leads by example and expects his team members to do as he does and the Honduran people.  He prepares them way in advance for their week of service in Honduras.  They are physically but most importantly they are spiritually ready and are spiritually filled while here in Honduras.  They receive a manual for the week which includes devotionals for them to do prior to coming and while in the country.  They are encouraged to journal their week as to save their memories forever.  Sandy led the VBS with strength and endurance as well.  She loved 160 plus children in the last ten days equally.  She never stopped giving of herself.  What an amazing godly couple God has placed in the ministry at Mount Horeb.  We are forever grateful for all you have done for the ministry.

We love you both!!!!!!

The Children

If they were not laying block, mixing mescal or filling joints this group was playing with the children.  Rita brought some very simple toys she found one day and this was the most amazing time of their lives.  There was 25 piece puzzles and bubbles which brought so much joy to these beautiful little ones.  They shared the salvation story with Eddie and Sammie one day and gave them a bracelet to help them remember who is and should be most important in their lives Jesus Christ!!!  They never let a moment pass that they were not sharing Jesus in some way shape form or fashion.  The love of Jesus was all over this little community called El LImonal.

Jason and Rome

Welcome these two young men and a father and son team, Jason and Rome.  Mike and I were blessed and humbled by these two young men.  Jason shared during his devotional that he went to church and did good things but I was not a child of God.  I followed all the rules, Jason shared, but did not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  Jason had cancer for seven years but if I would have died during that time I would have went straight to hell.  God's grace saved my life. AMEN Jason!!!!  Jason has such a heart wrenching testimony!  How many of us are good people and do good things but do not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ who died on the cross for sins.  Jason shared how we can trust in Jesus only and Jesus is the only way for any of us.  Jason's testimony that evening overflowed into his week working for Jesus and loving on the children at VBS.  Jason's salvation has enabled  him to serve His Lord but give His Lord and Savior full credit for all he now does.  

The story gets even better.  Rome shared a devotional one evening as well.   He is a new Christian as of January 6, 2019.  He fought God for one year and a half.  Rome shared how his Dad and Uncle Brian talked about Jesus all the time and how Jesus had changed their lives.  He heard this about everyday because he worked with his dad and Uncle Brian.  Rome was surrounded by Jesus yet he fought Jesus for one and half years.  Rome was in church on January 6 and heard the sermon "Making a big deal about Jesus" and he finally said OK God I want this true joy and peace I can only find in your son Jesus Christ.  Rome said as soon as he accepted Christ the most profound peace came over his life.  I remember Rome sharing at the end of his testimony this is not much but I hope it will help any of you all here in this circle tonight.  Little did Rome know, his testimony caused team member Aubrey to rededicate her life to the Lord later than evening.  Pastor Larry shared we all have a story to tell and we do not know when and who our story my effect.  We all need to share our story and be bold for Jesus so others can receive the greatest gift of all Jesus Christ, like Jason, Rome and Aubrey.  Thank you God for this amazing family and how much we came to love them this week.  Amen y amen