November of 2012 Mike and I adventured out to a community called El Tambora. We visited six families on this day to assess for new projects of constructing homes. We spent one half day with Pastor David visiting six different families and to our dismay not a one of them had a proof of property. We cannot build a home unless the homeowner has papers for their property. So we left a little dismayed because all of these families needed homes. After two and half years we have built two homes in El Tambora. But there was one home I really wanted to build and it was Juan Carlos and his mother, Maria. In November of 2014 we received his papers with much joy!!!!
With God's guidance and prayer we decided to put our church family of New Hope Baptist Church building Juan Carlos' home. Homes in El Tabora have to be built before the rainy season comes. The road the Kia is driving on will be a river by the middle of June or first of July. The bus was parked at a pulperia and those folks walked daily to the job site. John, Maurice, Ron and Reba bounced daily to the job site with the job materials. This week was an adventure daily to arrive at Juan Carlos lot. The team preserved daily. Penny, Betty Lynn, Gordon and Ken walked the rocky trail daily with a smile on their face. Once they arrived to their forty year old mangos trees of shade and a creek close by they knew they had found a little piece of heaven here on earth. This would be a week full of laughter and joy had by all the team and the Hondurans.
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