Mexico Mike Saturday Update

Mike's team is headed to South Padre Island today after finishing up with their construction and VBS work.

Here's the latest e-mail update sent from Mike's youth leader, Anthony:

Subject: update #8~awesome report from Anthony

It's Friday night and we are getting to bed after a long great day. We finished our houses and this email could be several pages just alone on that issue. We had so many of our work sites team members running in between the 3 sites to help each other. By 12:30pm, all the houses were done and dedications began. Each home was prayed over and our team got to express any words to the host families through a translator. The host families were crying, our kids were crying. It was a great experience. The site I was on had a older mother with grown kids living with her. The grown kids had small children and it was wonderful. During the dedication of our house, the older women communicated her gratitude and then began to cry. Suddenly she began to breath deeply and fainted. Her sons carried her inside while the pastor shared with us why she fainted. He told us of how this family moved from another state in mexico with nothing. They left family behind and put down roots with very little to their name. She was overwhhelmed with how the lord had restored all her wealth and blessed her with a house. She eventually came back outside and gave all of us hugs. We were overwhelmed with how this simple house became a great gift for someone else. Pretty special moment. All 3 dedications were like this one in their own way. All 3 homes were finished early but here us the best part: God used the VBS team with the other churches to lead a outstanding
VBS session today where 51 kids prayed to invite christ into their hearts. Our team led worship and portrayed a well-done skit on faith. Can't tell you how great a job Karen has done with this team and VBS. Godalso allowed us to join with 2 other churches to give the pastor $800 for an eye surgery and to make some more church pews that are well needed.They only have 2 in the church. Many more stories about the God sightings.

Pray for the following:
*safety at the beach tomorrow.
*team unity to continue
*health- sunburns to heal and continual health while travelling.
*strength for leaders. They are tired and so are I.
Blessings for now,
Ac
anthony r. chaboya
Mosaic Group