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In April of this year North Carolina Baptist Men held their annual conference.  Mike and I were asked to lead a break out session on the ministry in Honduras.  God blessed us to be home during this period for a short time.  Well God blessed us that Saturday morning when team leader, Julie, came to one of our break out sessions.  She came up to meet after the session and shared she was bringing a team in September.  I never knew how blessed we were going to be that Saturday morning until this team rolled into the airport at Tegus.  There was seven team members all who had been on an international mission trip except for one, Josh, who is sixteen years old.  They arrived eager to get down South and "assist" the Hondurans in the building of a home for a family.  They were not aware they would be building the home along side their Honduran friends.  But without any delay they were ready to start the next morning to build our "accident" Marie a home. 

We told Pastor Carlos earlier in the year to go find Marie who husband was no longer in the home and there was four children.  So he ask around and God sent him to this Marie.  When we went to assess Marie's situation I questioned where we were going.  I remember Maida sharing it was down another road.  But I trusted Pastor Carlos and off we went.  Well folks God is not in the business of accidents and this is the Marie we were suppose to go visit on this day.  We arrived to assess her existing dwelling and found her son, David, and her mother, Marie, greeting us.  Marie was at the hospital with her five year old daughter, Cindi who had gotten burned with an overturned pot of bean soup.  Marie's mother shared how she had lost her second son to dengue two months prior to our visit.  Marie's life was full of despair every way she turned until we accidentally went to her home this day to tell her she was getting a home.  This was the most precious accident we had ever made.  Marie, the mother of Marie showed us the papers for the property and we shared with her and David, her son, they will be getting a home on September 17th.  Marie's ;mother started crying as we shared how God had led us to them today and told us this Marie was to receive a home.

As we gathered on September 17 to meet and greet each other Marie shared with tears in her eyes how she had been praying for two years for a home.  God got the glory first of all and she thanked God for sending Hopewell Baptist Church to Honduras to build her home.  This was Hopewell's first mission trip to Honduras and we are grateful for Julie picking Honduras to come and serve the Lord this week.   God blessed each of us this week in so many different ways.  To God be the glory for this accident on this week.  The scripture below was quoted by team leader, Julie on one of the last evenings of God moments.  This is so true for this week.

 

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."

Isaiah 55:8-9