La Laguna

Well its time for another blog entry. i know that i need to update this thing more and i will try. Anyway i wanted to share what has been going on.

At the start of May, when i had finished Santa Lucia, i was still looking for some help to help me with making the filters and taking them to the villages. I ended up hiring a guy named Luis, and his lot is actually where i have been building the filters. There was also an opportunity to buy a cement mixer to help, not only with the making of the filters but also to help wash the sand. I bought it and it has been a blessing even more than i had imagined. With the cement mixer we were able to make about 35 filters in 2 weeks to have plenty in stock for the village of La Laguna. Also we were able talk to the leader of La Laguna to set of a town meeting. We like to have a meeting with the leader first, to get his or her permission for the project and to explain who we are and what the ministry is about. We met with the leader and she was very excited about the project to bring pure water to the village. We asked her to set up a time for a village meeting to be able to explain the project but also to share the Word of God to the entire village. Usually when we have a village meeting, there might be about 15 people that show up. This time there was probably about 70 plus kids. I started off by telling the people who we were and what the ministry is all about and then i read the passage of scripture about Jesus talking to the woman at the well. I started to explain the importance of both drinking water and spiritual water and got a few "amen's" and "yes sir's" and then for some reason i just started preaching. i preached for about 25 or 30 minutes. This was the first time that that has happened in a village but it was wonderful. Afterwards we explained the filter, what it was, and how it worked. After that we went out side the school and installed one for the school so people would have even a better idea how it was. It was a wonderful trip, probably the best village meeting that i have had in the 2+ years that i have been doing this. We plan to start taking filters sometime within the next week or so. I am going to put up some picture for yall to see how many people came to the meeting. check out http://s414.photobucket.com/albums/pp230/HisHands2008/ to see some of the pictures. There are not any up right now but sometime today i will try to put some up. please continue to pray for the people of La Laguna. thanks