Mike, Orfilio, Egla and I assessed the damages. Families were living up on the main road for about ten miles. The Red Cross was bringing plates of beans and rice once a day. They were cold and wet. Yes it was cold because of the many days of rain and no sunshine. Water was standing everywhere and was sitting on the very edge of the main road. Pastor G's church was under water as well as every home on that front row. What use to be melon fields was a full blown pond. Sugar cane was washed away. They claim they may be able to save some of them. An entire cementary was washed up and destroyed. Picture of Mike, Pastor G and Orfilio is a road that ran for miles overflowing with running waters. We hurried back into town to try to find beans and rice to buy and bag up for delivery the next day. God is so good all the time. We found a place that sold beans, rice, flour, sugar, salt and coffee and the bags to put them in. So we purchased 2000 pounds of beans rice, etc and off to get an anxious team busy bagging up the groceries. Well little did we know they were professional assembly line folks as well. They do a massive chicken dinner at their church twice a year selling 1000 plates. So they got busy and had the 650 bags done in no time at all. We did the math and one bag of food cost $6.88 to feed a family of four or five for one week. Jose was busy supervising the process and kept the team busy as Mike and I, Orfilio, Egla and team leader Alan went back out to Pastor G's community with 20 mattresses and blankets for the children to sleep on that evening and evenings to come. When we arrived Pastor G's face ripped my heart out. He had not had sleep for ten straight days accept for maybe a couple of hours a day. He looked at Mike and me and pointed to his family, his people, to his church and started crying. He was exhausted and overwhelmed and blessed all at the same time. His famous phrase was "NO PROBLEM". Even in the worst of situations Pastor G still has the strongest faith in God of anyone I know. He reminds me of Job in the bible.
"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." Romans 8:18
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