A Face Filled With Joy

This is the face of a man who has been given hope, love, safety, a future, security, dreams, and a house. When you are a builder with Homes of Hope you get to build a lot of houses so it can become a regular thing. Well the last house build that I was on really helped remind me what I came for. I got the opportunity to tell the father that the building team wanted to take him and his family grocery shopping. As I told him the look on his face made me stop and think. "This is why we do this." Not to put another notch on the hammer just to say that we have built one more house, not just to say we've been to Mexico but to help a family in need, to show the love of God to a family. I was reminded of what it means being God's hands and feet. It's a blessing and a privilege to be serving God. Building that house was worth it just to see the look on Antonio's face as he found out that he was receiving more love than he thought.

I wonder what our reaction would be if we realized how much loving we got from God on a daily basis? Just a little food for thought.

My Home Church Built a House!

I am amazingly blessed to have a church that is willing to support me and be God's hands and feet out in the world. My Dad and Mum led a team of 12 others to build a house here in Tijuana. Over 5 days they visited a Rehab center where th

ey painted a building, went to a local church and went for tacos and to the marketplace, built a house over 2 days and helped with a local children's program at a church and visited an orphanage as well.

It was an amazing outreach and I can totally see how God's hand was in the details. The team was blessed by God, having come from 4 different communities in Manitoba and from multiple different churches as well, the unity in the group was amazing. The team did amazing work. The house that they built is beautiful and the family that they built it for is sitting inside their newly built house with a clean cement floor, with a roof over their head that keeps them dry, and enough groceries to last about a week.

It was super encouraging to have my hom

e church here. It's great to work with my parents especially when building a house for a family in need. I'm surprised that I am not exhausted. With all the planning, working, driving, and preparing I seemed to be going all day for their entire stay. I can definitely say that God provided me with the strength to keep going. It was a privilege to build with my home church and I am excited to see what will happen next year. Hopefully more than one church building more than one house!