Finishing Strong

While a ton of amazing things happened today, we aren’t going to give too many details tonight. It’s late and the team has decided to get up early tomorrow in an attempt to finish our project. Our team worked very well again today. We installed the interior walls, most of the rafters and the wiring. Still, we have a long way to go to finish and tomorrow is our last day to complete the home. Tomorrow night we will cross the border and head to Yuma so we can make it to Phoenix on time for our flight Thursday. So tomorrow we will be working from sun up til sun down. Please pray that we would have strength and also complete all that God would like us to.

Pastor Enrique and Billy Gotschal

Just a few highlights from the day:

• We were moving lumber to Hector’s house when the van we were using stopped running. We had to push the van back to the church (about 250 yards) and in the process Devin had an asthma attack. Pastor Enrique prayed for Devin and it immediately stopped.
• Today some of our team went for a prayer walk through the neighborhood. We stopped several times to pray in a larger group. On one occasion we felt compelled to go to a home to ask the people to pray for them. This is a family that one of our teams built a home for 3 years ago. So we went to the door and knocked. It’s funny how language is a barrier at times. We tried to explain to the husband (Carlo) who we were, but it didn’t go too well. We did ask him if we  could pray with him and he agreed. Then his wife (Rosa) came home and she immediately knew why we were there and who we were.  We told her we were building a home for Claudia and she began to cry.  She pointed to a picture on the wall of the team that had come and built her home. And then we prayed together and Rosa prayed for us.
• Tonight there was a worship gathering that we went to at the church. The worship and message were good. At one point Pastor Enrique asked our whole team to come forward. He said that the most they could offer us was prayer. Then the whole church came forward and began to pray for us. We each had one or two people laying hands on us and praying for us. Although we could not understand what they were saying, it was a very powerful moment.

Matt Dinko and Hector

Tomorrow is a hectic day for us. So  you won’t see any updates to this blog until we get home. Tomorrow is a BIG day. Please pray.