Grace Baptist Meets The Rodriguez Family

After their first morning of job duties the team headed down to a community called Cedeno.  We gathered around the foundation of the home to have our introductions.  Mike spoke first and thanking the team as well as our brand new brother and sister in Christ, Christian and Stephanie along with their beautiful and joyful little girl Sophia for coming together as one to serve our Lord and Savior as this week was planned along time ago by our Heavenly Father.  Now the time has come to start a home for a well deserved family.  This family has lived their entire life in Cedeno.  They shared how they started out living down on the beach until a tsunami washed their home a way. Mike and I  remember this happening very well. As we went down to help mud out the beach for those left to survive on their own.  We might have helped them not knowing one day God had something much nicer for them in their future.  God's timing is always perfect in every way.  Manuel, our security guard on Monte de Horeb and Christian's best friend asked one day last year when were we going to build Christian a home.  So I proceed to pull his solicitation and it was a couple of years old, I said, "We will try to build it in 2020.  God's provision was perfect as He provided just the right team for this very quiet and sweet family.  Jacob team member commented one afternoon to me how quiet the Honduran people are and how we could learn from them so many different things if we only paid attention.  By the way this is Jacob's first time on an international mission trip and he got it his first day here.  The entire team saw how joyful their new friends were and how they wanted to share in their genuine joy they exhibited for the next five days.  Kristi introduced her team and thanked them for allowing her and her church family to be with them this week. Christian thanked everyone for coming to help Stephanie and him get their new home.  The project was sitting on a beautiful piece of land and it was the last dwellings on the dirt road for miles.  We learned from Christian his entire family lives all around him.  There is four generations surrounding this stretch of property.  How awesome it is to live where you can watch your children and grandchildren grow up with so much love.  This is what the team experienced this week, lots of love by family and friends as these 800 blocks and 50 bags of cement, two doors and two windows started becoming a home.