Tuesday, 10 May, 2011, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Today is Mother’s Day. Here in Mexico, they celebrate Mother’s Day on the 10th of May no matter what day of the week it is.
So, to mi madre y mi espousa, I say “¡Feliz dia de las madres!”
Today was our first workday at RETO.
We led devos (apparently an international term) in the am. Each of our team gave a brief tesimony. I talked about how God brought me back. About how no matter how far away we run, when we return to Him, it is only one step.
After devos, Timothy and I put together a quilting top stitch machine. That took all day with occasional interuptions for lunch and afternoon devos.
Our team prepared lunch for the girls.
At lunch we heard a testimony that was truly remarkable.
One of the part-time staff members is a lady from Las Cruces named Kate.
Kate works full-time in Las Cruces as a respitory therapist. She has Sunday/Monday/Tuesday off and uses it to drive down to Juarez and teach sewing and guitar at RETO.
She has an intense love for these girls.
She told us how she used to drive down every two or three months from Colorado. On one of these drives she listened to Spanish instruction tapes to learn the language.
On the drive home from that trip, she was praying and asking God how He wanted her to continue and expand this mission.
He told her, “Ask this guy for a job.”
A minute later her phone rang.
The voice on the other end said, “How can I help you?”
She said that she looked at phone and said, “Well, I didn’t call you. God did. But I am supposed to ask you for a job.”
The voice asked, “Do you know who this is?”
After she told him that she didn’t. He introduced himself as he head of Respitory Therapy at the hospital in Las Cruces.
She said, “That’s funny. I’m a respitory therapist and God told me to ask you for a job.”
He told her to immediately come see him. She did.
While there he told her to take home an application and fill it out and send it back, but it would probably be a couple of months before she heard anything.
She flled it out then and there. Handed it to him. He told her as soon as a position was open, he’d send her a packet.
She drove the rest of the way home.
12 hours later, when she arrived at home, the packet was in her mailbox.
The next week she moved to Las Cruces and has been going to RETO every week since (5 years next month).
When God gives a dream, He will pave the road to the fulfillment of that dream.
This evening we lead the evening service for the girls. We prayed for them and gave them a small gift. When all were done and the girls were dismissed, one girl came back to ask for prayer for her mother who has been diagnosed with cancer.
Please add Hilda and her mother Paula to your prayer lists.
Our prayer was for God to do a miracle in that life, so they could be the testimony which their community so desperately needs.
Please join us in prayer.
As I said in yesterday’s post, there is hope in Juarez.
