Ding Dong Ditch.....Kind of

God is good! This ministry was so stinken exciting for me! To me it was just seeing the blessing of being obedient to the scripture.
James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

This woman was hurting so much from the death of her husband and also we learned from the recent death of her father. She was having such a hard time financially, spiritually, and emotionally. On the property where she live there was another mobile home where her daughter, son in law and her four grandsons lived, and they were all having a rough go as well as any one can imagine!

Sherry heard about this family from a very close friend of hers that is really close with this family and she shared how desperately this family needed help. Some of the first things we did for this family is we prayed for them, and then we took a collection and over the course or two weeks of collection we ended up with 426 dollars which that alone was just so neat to see the way that God provided for this family just within our little group.

So Rose, Sherry, Carol and I were the lucky ones that got to go shopping for this sweet family! We put together two baskets one for the woman, and one for the family both baskets had gift cards to Wall mart and smiths "for gas", the family got a couples devotional and a Children's bible and The women got a daily devotional.

Rose and I were also the blessed one to take the baskets out there and deliver them! When we got out there instead of ringing the door and running for the hills we decided to just give it to her in person. When she answered the door she looked kinda shocked but immediately invited us in, you can always tell a country person they either invite you in right away or greet you with gun and ask you to leave the property at once! I can say that cause I grew up out there! Any way sorry!
We went in and explained to her that we had heard that her and her family had a need and that it was laid on our hearts to meet that need. We told her that we were from a group of believers in ABQ, but did not giver her our names or affiliation.

It was so neat to see her reaction that the body of Christ cares! "Some times we really fail to show that as the body" She was so receptive, and she talked to us about how she was just having such a hard time getting back to church and even getting back into the word, and just in general how hard it had all been on her as of late. She also said though that she new she needed to get back into fellowship and into the word and we shared with her about Calvary of estancia and that they would be wanted and welcomed there, and then before we left we prayed with her.

One of the unique blessings and benefits about this ministry is that Gods servants are all over this situation. First we were told by Sherry's Friend that later after we left and when she opened the devo that we had given her it was marked to the exact day that her husband had been killed and the topic of that devotional was all about not despairing and having hope! How AMAZING is that! especially to her what a message from her father that he new and remembered the day that she lost her beloved and He did not want to despair but to have hope! There is no way that we could have even of tried to have done that. Our Father takes care of the details!!!

The next wonderful thing that hap pend is Rose received a phone call from John the very next Sunday after we had delivered the gifts stating that the woman and her family had showed up at church that morning!! He said that the congregation welcomed them and prayed over them. And the woman also went on the tell Sherry's friend that they really enjoyed and it and that the church felt so alive and that they were really excited about this church! How wonderful that the Lord also used this little ministry to help bring some of His children back to His body.