posted by MrsLynn on Jun 19
Greetings Friends & Family!
Wow! What a first day. The previous night the folks form Al. didn’t make it in till late so we were allowed to sleep in just a little bit. After breakfast we had a short introduction and orientation and than our morning devotion led by Bro. Doug Chappell (Lynn’s former youth pastor) and Bro. Teddie. The devotional times our very sweet as well as encouraging and challenging. I really look forward to them and know that each of us will have and ah ha moment with God during these times. After the devotion we headed out to our site to begin day 1 of construction. Today each church was allowed to stay together as a team. I won’t go into too much detail but I will say this, Team Texas might not have been the fastest, most accurate and sharpest team out today, but we sure had a lot of fun!!!! It’s amazing what you can learn about people when you work side by side with them. Our folks were so passionate about learning to build a 12X12 tin roof and tin siding house that we started over 5 times just to make sure we had the hang of it.
Seriously I had a blast with our team and was so proud of each them. During the times we were starting over, we had many opportunities to interact with the locals and played and laughed with the children and adults. We are all looking forward to tomorrow and can’t wait to get back to work. Our goal is to finish at least three homes.
As Janet mentioned last night, the country side is absolutely amazing. Our hearts are constantly going back and forth from rejoicing at Gods creation while at the same time have a deep burdened for the Guatemalan people.
The group has already begun to talk about coming back next year and each one has mentioned many names of people they felt needed to come. Chris Miller said “preacher all of our folks need to experience this”, so without mentioning names let me just say it this way – FBC Freeport, get ready!!!!!!
Please continue to pray for us each day!
Till tomorrow,
Pastor Abel
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