Here at IDT Baja, we're nearing the end of our main, primetime, summer housebuilding season. Groups from all over the United States and Canada have been coming and building houses for poor families in our area and doing evangelical outreaches to help build the Church. After next week, our season comes to an end. Since kids begin going to school around early September, few groups are able to visit us. Also, our facilities need a period of R & R before we have more visiting missionaries in October.
This past week our visiting groups built six houses for families. It was a busy week. After delivering "Este es Jesus" (This is Jesus) books to all of the families, I got to go to San Diego. Yea! After seven months of not being in the good ol' USA, it was time for a trip! It was a great opportunity to visit the Superior Court to explain why I didn't show for jury duty (didn't get their invitation in time) and to get my pickup smog checked. Woohoo! God miraculously made my pickup pass the smog test with flying colors! I get to go back for jury duty near the end of September. More on that at a later date.
The previous week, a group from Yucca Valley, California added amenities to a house they built last year and also put on a vacation bible school for children in the town of Zapata. About 50-70 kids (maybe more, I lost count) participated in the VBS. In the afternoons, the leaders of this group gave guitar, voice, & keyboard lessons to those of us who lead worship at IDT. The lessons have been a need here for a long time. None of us could have afforded to pay our professional level teachers what these lessons were worth. What a blessing!
A quick example of how the Lord works: Recently, some visiting missionaries delivered a bunch of
new reading glasses to IDT. Since none of us know how to match the glasses to those who need them, I took them to another ministry across town that has a medical clinic. I took the grocery bag full of reading glasses into the clinic and told the receptionist what I had. She called a nurse and doctor over to show them the glasses and they all began praising God! They said they had just asked the Lord to provide glasses that morning because the previous day someone took their whole supply of reading glasses. Thank you Lord for using me.... and the folks who brought the glasses to Mexico.... and those who donated them!
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