Fixing Families

The Team got a little dirty today. We started digging footings for the new Family Strengthening Center.

FH will use this facility for tutoring, teaching families the importance of putting God first in all they do and helping husbands and wives overcome the tyranny of a world broken by sin.

The best part of the construction was when Colton chased the girls around with a slug someone dug up.

This afternoon we accompanied the Technicos on the home visits with families enrolled in the FH program. It was amazing.

The Technicos are very skilled at talking to people in the most difficult materially poor conditions about God´s plan for them. The Technicos visit each family at least three times per year to personally check in to see where FH might help. These three visits are in additon to all the other programs and trainings FH provides for them.

At each visit we saw the whole gospel presented. God´s desire to restore the richness and dignity we lost in the fall, and the restoration that can only come through the blood of Christ, shed for the sins of the whole world.

The conversations were so practical, so Biblical and so well done. It inspires us to find ways to address the spiritual and physical poverty in our own community in more effective ways.

Even in the midst of the despair and pain in these neighborhoods we met people who serve God whole heartedly and are therefore not really poor at all. Life is hard for them, they need much...but the work of God in them is obvious.

At times in the west where we have so much we miss our own need for that whole hearted devotion to the One Who gave His life for us.

As Victor Cortez, FH´s Guatemala country director said, some people are so poor, all they have is money.

May God fulfill His desire for richness in Horno Ckasa B, Cedar Crest and the whole world.

Marv