Too Big To Describe

When we had devotion last night, we commented on how big our God is. Whenever we think we have an idea, He shows us something so much bigger we are amazed. Today was that day.

Workwise, the roof for the Sunday School building was installed and two rooms now have concrete floors. We left one room for the best reason to do anything - love. No one loves concrete more than our brother Wiley Jones who has spent the last couple of days recovering from a nasty head cold. He greeted us tonight when we got back to the mission house with a Rocky Balboa hands over the head dance that told us he was better. A hundred percent better in fact. He will be wallowing in cement grinning from ear to ear in less than twelve hours. It will be a wonderful gift for all of us!

God was everywhere today. If all were written here it would be enough for a good novel...hmmm. Anyway, when we get back to the U.S. you can ask any one of us and you will get at least three different Godwinks from every team member. Pictures will have to suffice for now. Team one, we all thank you for your hard work. Without you we would not have had the flexibility to experience God the way we did today.


Ok. One story. Can't help it. Next to the house we built is a courtyard and a couple of mud houses. The village desperately needed a well, so they prayed about where to dig. The location was chosen. In twenty days, using only a pick axe, shovel, and bucket, the well is now thirty feet deep and eight feet in diameter. That's right. Twenty days. Thirty feet deep. But to the great disappointment of the village, work had stopped. Even though the soil was beginning to get moist, the man digging the well could not dig any deeper for fear the walls would start collapsing without concrete reinforcement. We all looked at each other and had a prayer meeting without saying a word. Today we delivered a dozen bags of cement to his house. The look of pure amazement was soon replaced with a gold toothed grin. The feeling of God being in that place at that moment washed over everyone. As he headed back down the well to begin digging, the man told us that he was going to put an extra marker beside the well. On it he was going to write two words: Jeremias' team.

Several people at devotion tonight said that today was the closest to God they have ever felt.

So, how big is YOUR God?