Just an Oven....

If you never read the post about the pizza oven click here  before reading this post....

This year when we went to Texas for the Juarez Project we finally got to meet the
pastor who has used the oven to provide for his family! What a blessing! His name
is Pastor Jorge & I believe his wife's is Maribella (some Spanish names are hard to
pronounce, let alone spell! And I did not get them to write it down.)

This picture is front from last year. They are the couple on the right.

Their story is so interesting...... They were both working full-time.....not 40 hours a
week, but 70! Making right around $90 each. He was also trying to pastor the church....
this church...

Antioch Baptist Church. The oven is in a small room in the back.

After he received the oven last year, he and his wife quit their jobs and started making
pastries & bread to sell at a local factory. Now they work three days a week together AND
with their children (they have a girl & a boy)! And they make enough money in those three
days that he can devote more time to the church!  We even got to sample some of the
things they make and they were all very good!

Praise the Lord! He took a simple idea Brother Hector had and multiplied the blessing of it
in a way only He could! All glory to God!

This led to the building of two more ovens & two hamburger carts on this year's trip.......but
there are stories and pictures that go along with those, so I'll post about them next time!

Hospitality House ~ Shrewsbury

 Starting with a meeting with Pastor Feeser on December 31st, most of
 the months of January & February were spent at Turnpike Baptist on
 their hospitality house. Below are a few pictures Terry took with his
 phone.....

 The goal of the remodel was to rewire and insulate the whole house. As you can
 see, it is a BIG project! Most of the wiring has been completed and dry wall has
 been started. There is still a lot to do though! Please keep this project in prayer.

Those Promised Pictures!

Here are those pictures of the finished storage room at church...

Now there is plenty of room for all those extra things!

November in a Nutshell....

Most of the month of November was spent finishing the storage room
that was started in September...the post about this can be seen here .
I will get some pictures of the finished room and update this post soon!

There was also the trip to Servant's Heart (see the last post) and work
on the house we are renting. Part of the rental agreement was for Terry
to get some small projects completed so when we get our travel trailer
our landlord can put his house up for sale. So he was busy tearing out
plaster, putting up drywall and painting. Sorry, no pictures!

We are trusting the Lord to provide a trailer for us soon as some recent
projects have Terry traveling over 50 miles one way! God knows what's
best and we are waiting on Him.


 *Check back soon for those pictures!

Two More Trips to Servant's Heart Camp

Trip One ~ November 16-18....

Terry would make this trip with Josiah, Jordan & his brother Jared.
The goal was to frame the new cabin.....

And by the end of the three days....the walls were standing!

Trip 2 ~ December 15 & 16 ~

The goal of this quick trip was to put the cabin under roof....

Thank the Lord for a mild December! It allowed them to work without freezing!
 
I  must say they have become quite a team! We sure appreciate the hard work
these guys have put into helping at Servant's Heart....hopefully they'll be
willing to help on more projects!

Terry still needs to go back up and finish a few things on the roof yet.  AND
Praise the Lord....the money came in for the second cabin they wanted to build
before summer!  He will be returning back up there to lay the foundation, but
probably not until the weather is warmer. The Lord has brought along other
projects to keep him busy this winter, but those are for future posts!

Servant's Heart Camp ~ Week 2

We headed back up to Servant's Heart for week #2 arriving around 3PM.
 My hope was that the 4 of us could spend this week together, but Erin
 had to stay home because her job at Chick-Fil-A was to start....
 Instead we brought Jordan, a friend from church, to help with the work!

 Terry began work right away... laying block....

 He finished the corners that evening! On Tuesday, a couple showed up with
 paper towel holders for the cabins they wanted to donate. It turned out to be
 the parents of a man in our church! We all had lunch together, then Mr. Work
 helped Terry lay block in the afternoon! What a blessing!
 Josiah & Jordan had fun working...running equipment! They were busy back
 filling the drainage ditch & around the foundation...

Josiah

Jordan

 We happened to be there the week the Fry's church was having revival. We
 headed to church that evening after supper to hear Alton Beal from Ambassador
 Baptist College preach.

 Wednesday was another long work day.....did I say we had beautiful weather?
 It couldn't have been nicer!

 Terry continued to lay the block, but what I was amazed at was what Josiah &
 Jordan were doing....

Team work!

 Jordan was taking that shale and dumping it into Josiah's bucket, then he was
 dumping it and spreading it inside the foundation! Pretty neat idea! We headed
 back to revival services that night while the guys did facetime with their class
 back home!

 Thursday was another long but productive day...block laying finished, spreading
 stone inside the foundation, cleaning up the area around the new foundation, even
 getting started on the decking!....

 All that was left for Friday was tarring the walls, finishing the decking and back
 filling the foundation... if the tar was dry...

Almost finished....

 This last picture was taken in the late morning...unfortunately, the great weather
 turned and by lunch it had started raining.... They did manage to get all the decking
 on and covered with plastic as the rain started falling.They were so close to being
 finished! Only two walls to tar and back filling to do! Terry ended up going back up
 for the day about two weeks later to finish this part of the process.

 I want to end with two other pictures... one is the drainage ditch covered (Josiah
 had started on that last week) & the other just one of the MANY beautiful pictures
 of the fall colors.....

                                              God is good....all the time!

Servant's Heart Camp ~ Week 1

Sorry for the long delay... this post actually happened over a period of 2 1/2 weeks, not all back to back.

The end of September and first week of October we went to Ramey, PA to
begin the foundation for a cabin at Servant's Heart Camp. Terry, Josiah & I
left early Monday morning and had a beautiful afternoon and evening for 
them to work....

Before breaking ground

 Unfortunately, that would be the only nice day that week....the weather turned 
 colder with off and on rain showers, then turning to heavy rain midweek making 
 it hard to dig footers! (The original plan was to dig and put in two foundations, 
 but the rain and finances quickly turned that decision to one!) 

Still working while it's dry...

Cutting in the water & sewer lines...can you see how wet the ground is?

 

Footers poured early Friday morning

  A few other projects were able to be done this week too... in spite of the rain...
 A few trees had to be cut down and taken to a pile on the property....

That's Josiah on the tractor!

 Josiah also helped finish a drainage ditch for the new sand volleyball court to be
 added this coming year...

The volleyball court is just behind the machine Josiah is on...

He got a lot of experience with running equipment this week!

 We were able to go home for the weekend to attend a family reunion and our
 home church's Sunday services before heading up for week two...