While other things are happening in Paucarpata I really just want to share a little more in the continuing storie of Pedro and Margarit with you. While we're waiting to make a few changes in the work that we do in this district, a place that has not bore a whole lot of fruit, we are please to see the energy and life bubbling out of this family. All along I've written about Dalia and her family - the faithfulness of a 17 year old girl and how that made us available to her family in a time of need. Her family, sometimes just the parents, sometimes all five, are attending the church 2-3 times a week. They have a brightness to their faces and are committed to take small steps forward to giving their lives to God.
They're such an encouragement in a district that has been a slow burn for us. This Tuesday they're going to cook dinner for our family and bring it to our house. And so we've passed dismal days and now in a different phase of building community and sharing life, we get to laugh together and break bread. This is a blessed life. I'd like to share some of the lyrics to a favorite song; I feel like much of the ministry we do literally fits the surrounding desert. And yet hope is springing up all around :)
Beautiful Things
~Gungor
All this pain
I wonder if I’ll ever find my way
I wonder if my life could really change at all
All this earth
Could all that is lost ever be found
Could a garden come up from this ground at all
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us
All around
Hope is springing up from this old ground
Out of chaos life is being found in You
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us
