God’s love poured out

Bethany El Salvador November 2018 Team

“I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.”  Bob Goff

We’re not sure how this happened but our November team of 36 people will be building 36 homes next week in El Salvador.  Unbelievable!  Maybe I should be more concerned about how next week we will actually get 36 homes up!  But we have seen God at work in putting this team together and in how these funds have come in, and we trust in Him who can do immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine!  So really I guess I do know how this happened!

Our team reached out to their family, friends, colleagues, fellow students and beyond - and got creative in fundraisers including rowing across Lake Ontario (from Jordan to Toronto!), hosting a neighbourhood pool party, sewing pie-iron bags (ask me if you don’t know what a pie-iron is, it will change your life! Lol), roofing a house, selling crates, selling Pampered Chef, there was a donation of a house given at a wedding in lieu of wedding favours, and incredible donations through people donating from their savings and investments.  Our team got out of their comfort zone, they sacrificed and did something that was of incredible value, something that mattered.  And God blessed these efforts and poured out His love.  And we haven’t even gotten to El Salvador yet.

We now have the amazing opportunity to go to El Salvador and bring God’s love to the families we are building homes for.  These families are living in desperate conditions and the homes literally lift them out of the mud, and give them a roof that doesn’t leak. We will hear their stories and we work alongside them, again we have to get out of our comfort zone.  Please pray for our team and the families in El Salvador receiving homes.  Pray that the families know that the homes they receive is God’s love being poured out on them.  And we are excited to see how God will use us and change us.

Thank you so much for all the support, encouragement and prayers!  Our team extends way beyond the 36 people, to everyone who has contributed in large or small ways towards this mission!

Ephesians 3:20

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.