High Wind Warning

Trees knocked over, branches coming down, shingles being ripped off roofs, even a transport truck tipped on the Burlington Skyway – this was Southern Ontario yesterday as winds over 100 km blew through our area.  Anything that wasn’t properly secured was blowing down the street - which made driving rather challenging!  For most of us, the high winds weren’t much more than an inconvenience.  Our garbage can might be a kilometer down the road or maybe we had to take a different way home because the road was closed or blocked by tree branches.

But in a couple of days we have a team travelling to El Salvador where high winds aren’t just an inconvenience.   Families that struggle to find employment and can barely earn enough to sustain themselves, live in homes patched together with cardboard, plastic and scrap metal.  They have five months of rain season where storms of driving rain and high winds pull their homes apart.

Our team has the opportunity to build 12 homes for families living in these desperate conditions, giving them the chance to live without worrying about their house blowing away.  Giving them a roof that doesn’t leak and a concrete floor that keeps them out of the mud.  But more than that, we have the opportunity to bring the love of God and to tell them that they have not been forgotten.

1 Corinthians 3:11  “For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.”  Our prayer is that the message of God’s love and salvation through Jesus Christ changes the lives of those families, and gives them a firm foundation that carries them through every storm of life.  Please pray with us for these families and pray that our team would come away changed!