Mario

In Honduras over the weekend I saw our God in action!
Imagine if you can living on a rock......not rocky soil but, a mountainside that is solid rock. If you were in a house (American style) then, it wouldn’t be too bad, but this was in Honduras and the living conditions were not anything like we are accustomed to.
Living on the rock was a little family – The family of Mario, his wife & their three beautiful children. The Mario family had a shelter that was three sided – it had a stick frame and was covered in plastic sheeting. The cover for the front of the “house” was a blanket. Inside was the rock floor, an old thin mattress, a couple of extra pieces of clothing, not much else. The obvious missing element for life was food – this family had absolutely no food.
I was able to see all of this because I was there on the day that Mario and his family were getting a new house. Mario had somehow met someone from the Tupelo, MS TORCH team and told them about his current bad situation. Mario needed a house NOW because if he couldn’t improve the living situation for his children, the government was going to come and take them away. I think that it was on Thursday that he told the Mississippi folks about his situation and he only had until Tuesday to get a new house. Mario had been making adobe blocks for about two months with plans to build his own place. Since Mario owned basically nothing, he was able to only make one or two adobe blocks a day and at that rate, it might be a year for him to get the one room house built. Mario’s situation became desperate when he was told that he didn’t have a year to provide shelter for his kids – he was down to days.
Well, Mario prayed and our God delivered! He used the arms and legs of the TORCH team form Tupelo to answer Mario’s prayers. Mario got a house and his kids can stay with the family.
The really cool thing about this is that Mario knew exactly who delivered his house and he gave credit to our God for bringing he & his family a new place to live.