TEARING DOWN WALLS

Well the group has come and gone and I am so sorry that I didn't take the time to keep everyone updated, but I was living in the moment so to speak. I am now taking time to reflect and can't wait to share the amazing time we have had the last two weeks. I guess I should break this down into several blogs there is so much that has happened.


The group arrived the day after Mother's Day and we met them at the airport. It was such a joy to see friends that we haven't seen in such a long time. With quick hugs and greetings we loaded them onto a bus and off they went to Comayagua. It was no fun, it was like getting a quick look at a present and then have it taken away for three days!

I know that they did a lot of good in Comayagua. They dug ditches, painted a church, visited children's homes and hospitals.

They came back to Tegus. late Wednesday night. We drove to the mission house for the Devo that night. I was so excited to get to visit our friends and begin to make new ones. We made plans for the next day. We were going to be building two houses in Mololoa and then the soccer team was going to play a game. I know that after building a house I can just manage to fall into bed after a shower. I can't imagine playing a game of soccer after building a house, but truth be told I can't imagine playing a game of soccer at all.

The house that we worked on was quite special. In fact they are all special. This house was going to be the largest house we have ever built. The mother that will be living in the house has two little girls, the first one is five years old physically, but mentally she is just a baby, she needs a wheelchair, her mother carries her now but she is getting too big. Her name is Miracle.
The mother also has a two year old little girl. She works for minimum wage at a laboratory and her elderly mother lives with her and cares for the girls. We really wanted to make this house large enough for a wheelchair because the child will be living in this house with no real way out. They live high on the mountain where it is very steep and the road is slippery with lose dirt and rock. Do they have special wheelchair's for outdoor conditions such as these? The mother has been trying to get the land prepared for a month now but just couldn't do it, so we started our day out digging, and we ended the day with digging.

The crew that worked on the house was big enough so that the building and digging could go on continuously. It was a great day to work and everything ran smoothly except the chainsaws.
It was wonderful to work with old friends like Kyle and Nat and to talk with new people and seeing the situation through new eyes. We were able to get about 1/2 way done on the house the first day. Friday a small group went to finish it up.

The group of boys and a girl that came to play soccer worked on a house that was 1/2 wood and 1/2 plastic. They had to tear down the walls first and then let the building process begin. I think that God has to do that with us sometimes. He has to first tear down some walls before the building can begin. And like that house sometimes the walls are thin and easily ripped away, other times they are solid and long standing. It is hard for them to be torn down, sometimes painful, but He can not even start to build us up into what we should be until the old walls are gone. When the old is gone the new is even more than we hoped or imagined.