We would love to introduce our new found friends and brothers and sister in Christ, Rodd, Rita and their son Josh. They brought so many different gifts and talents to their team this week. They all three worked endlessly to help build this home. Rita shared evangelism with the children as well as with Augustine who on the day of dedication received Christ as his Lord and Savior. Rita planted the seed and Alejandra and Pastor Brian watered it and harvested it. Rodd was not afraid of any thing you placed in front of him. He gave it his all each and every day. The evening he shared his devotional brought everyone into tears of humbleness as he shared from Job 41:10-11, "Everything under heaven belongs to ME." Rodd shared the 600 blocks which had to go inside the home God provided the energy we needed to get the job done. This was not of any doing of ourselves. It was all God's. Rodd shared we do the things we do because the power of the Holy Spirit overflows in us. Rodd felt the Holy Spirit one day on the job site when Pastor Carlos prayed in Spanish and when the song in church was song, "When The Role is Called Up Yonder". We did not know the language but he shared how he felt the power of the Holy Spirit. He was mostly humbled when his son, Josh, prayed over the first block and what an eternal difference this made to everyone. Their son, Josh not only prayed over the first block but he worked right along everyone else this week building this family's home. Josh is sixteen years old but fit right in to us old folks. On the last evening together Josh shared he did not want this to end. Honduras was blessed to have been apart of this family this week. Thank you for giving of your time and talents to come here and work beside of North Carolina Baptist Men in Honduras.
We would like to introduce to you another precious family who came to Honduras to serve beside of us. Welcome Pastor Larry and his lovely wife Sandy. They came with many gifts as well. Pastor Larry jumped in there wherever he was needed. He would go the extra mile to make everything look beautiful. He worked beside Sandy a lot and did not work beside her a lot as well. They both served the Lord wherever they saw the need. Sandy saw the need several times to take time away from the construction to reach out to the children. She felt the Holy Spirit move her away from the construction and build relationships with the children. I feel also helped David become more joyful as the week progressed. Pastor Larry and Sandy worked hard near the end to make sure the floor got down as well. They saw the need to clean up around the premises and they somehow got everyone involved as a part of the clean-up crew. Pastor Larry taught the family the importance of caring for what has been given to them. He took the time when he could have stopped and said we are done. The roof is on and the floor is down but he continued treating this home as if it was his own. These two make an amazing team and brought so many different gifts to the their Hopewell team.
"As for me and my house we will serve the Lord."
Joshua 24:15
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