The team was welcomed with hand shakes from complete strangers. As the week progressed the hand shakes turned into daily hugs. Let me introduce the prideful homeowners, Wilmer, who works at Mt. Horeb, his grandfather who raised him, Cruz, his Aunt Estella and her son Gorge. Wilmer has been putting back his pay each week for about six months in order to pay for the foundation for his grandfather's home. A foundation here cost around $400.00. Wilmer makes around $75.00 a week. So he was able to put some back weekly and still keep some to live off on. His family does not have a steady income except for Cruz working in his corn to provide food for the family. So Wilmer's income has helped his family get a home where maybe otherwise would not happen. Wilmer is an outstanding Christian young man who loves the Lord and his family. He is very faithful to his grandfather, aunt and cousin. They are blessed to have such an amazing young man as part of this family.
We gathered around in a huge circle to greet each other and introduce each other. Pastor Carlos introduced all the Honduran help that has come along to help as Wilmer introduced his family. Wilmer had an uncle who helped them all week, our intern Tyler, "Taylor" was there to help each day as well. Manuel took a day without pay to come help his long time friend. We had two youth from a church family we work with sometimes who volunteered their time for the week as servants of Christ. Their pastor ask them if they wanted to help and they said yes. The pastor does this to help keep them focused on Kingdom work and not the world stuff. God placed all the right folks there from the first day until completion to help Wilmer's family get a home. What a blessing from God and how HE can orchestrate HIS Kingdom work with so many different folks from different walks of life and how beautifully everything comes together.
Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:12
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