Is It August Already???

This year has been screaming by!  I guess we should expect that here near the end of the end times.  As I keep an eye on the news, it's amazing that the Lord hasn't grown weary enough to come for His Bride (the Church) and bring everything to a halt.  One day He will.

We had two wonderful groups of visiting missionaries here this past week from both coasts of the U.S.A. YWAM (Youth With A Mission) sent a team from the northwest and CCOB (Calvary Chapel Old Bridge) sent a team from New Jersey.  The YWAM group built homes for two families in Camalu and Monte Alban which are a few miles north of our base here at IDT.  They also did an outreach event at a rehab center for alcoholics and drug addicts.

The CCOB team did a construction project to help an IDT missionary.  They also supported us with an evangelical outreach.  They traveled with us way off the beaten path of Mexico's Highway 1 to an agricultural labor camp called Hacienda Sinaloa.  While a Mexican IDT missionary taught from the Bible, the servants from CCOB distributed clothing, cookies, juice, and, most importantly, Bibles and Bible story books.  The 50ish people at the camp were blessed!

Speaking of the people at Hacienda Sinaloa, I'd like you to imagine something if you can.  Imagine yourself unschooled, illiterate, with a very small vocabulary, without a car or phone, living about 15 miles from any good store and 5 miles from even a small one,  Your only transportation options are your feet or the bus that takes you to work in the tomato fields for $15 U.S. per day when work is available.  Your house is made of old wooden pallets and plastic tarps from your employer plus whatever makeshift building materials you can find.  Most likely, you don't have a birth certificate which means you really don't exist to the government.  That's what it's like to live in an agricultural camp here.  Poverty is not a lack of money - it's a lack of options and opportunities.

Thank you Lord for the opportunities You've given me!  Please help me to use them wisely for Your glory.