GOD IS GOOD!

First of all, Mateo and Fabio are Spanish names too. Italian is a close cousin.

The Lord is GOOD! We saw so clearly Him working in our lives yesterday. We were both exhausted. We got back from our trip Friday and all day Saturday were working at home doing chores and grocery shopping. So Sunday we were very tired but had invited Lilian, Miguel{s older sister, over for lunch. She had wanted to talk to us and we had not seen her in so long. She is 20 and has two girls, 5 and 3. She took them along with her sister Milagros, 10, to live with her in another house, because she has a job! Praise God. Miguel went to live with his younger sister Rosario at their aunts house. The mother is still drinking a lot and is mentally ill, being very violent and threatening her childrens lives at times. Only her boyfriend and two sons live with her. One son is also drinking a lot at only 14 years old, and the other Jorge works on a delivery truck, which teaches him many inappropriate adult things at such a young age of 11. The mother did not want to lose her children but she did not want to give up drinking either.

Lilian works in the mornings while Milagros, 10, takes care of the two youngest toddlers.

This is getting longer than expected but all important info. We are now working with others in the church on getting all of the kids into school when the year starts in February. Please pray with us about that.

After they left and we gave them a lot of our food, we took a nap. I got up to bake about 80 baked goods to sell the next day and was doing that when two friends from church came over unexpectedly. Our [sound man[ and his girlfriend. He had jsut taken care of our house and dogs for one week while we were traveling. I was not too excited at the surprise becuase I was so busy, but then Kayla offered to help me and I took her up on her offer! She saved me about 2 hours of time by peeling and cutting about 20 carrots and helping with the bread. They invited us for Chinese food too which was good becuase I do not know when I would have cooked, or what!

So we saw how after blessing others, God really blessed us. Our friends surely came as angels, I am convinced. It is so encouraging how God always takes care of us.

Today the baked good sales went really well. That is a good source of income and ministry and we would appreciate your prayers for that as well.