After a very short night, the POWER men were up again early this morning. If they had the time, they ate a fast breakfast at the hotel -- and along with their luggage were on the vans by 7 AM. Next stop, devotion time at Ezequiel Aljandro's POWER church in Hidalgo, TX (just across the border from Reynosa).
Pastor Ezequiel has been on the POWER trip before, and joined the group again this week. When he opened his storefront church in Hidalgo, he asked the POWER leadership team permission to use the name. Now, the POWER men were meeting at the POWER church for morning devotion and assignments.
Craig Gilbert continued the devotion he started two days earlier in Del Rio. "To be a man of POWER, you have to be a man of WISDOM," he said. Using Solomon as the great example, Craig pointed out that Solomon sought after wisdom. "You have to look for it and ask for it -- and then you'll be blessed by it," Craig added.
"Wisdom will keep us out of trouble," Craig said. "It will keep us on the path to holiness and righteousness."
Devotion over, and ready to issue assignments, Dave Barnes chimed in: "The day is not complete until you can do something for someone who can NEVER repay you." Today, we had that opportunity.
Building projects included a high school at the Alianza (Dome) Church in Reynosa, completing a senior citizens dorm, a clinic at Senda de Vida and shelves at the POWER church.
If you have followed this week's blog, you know that POWER is also involved in building relationships -- and today, that meant the puppet team performing for the children at Refugio Orphanage School. A work team also headed over to Border Mission on the Texas side of the border to handle the logistics of delivery of rice and beans and bibles to several locations.
More hygiene kits, jeans and socks went on vehicles for delivery during the Reynosa Jail visit scheduled in the afternoon. After the visit, like the multiplication of loaves and fishes, there were enough extra socks and hygiene kits to deliver to Senda de Vida, where the director had been praying for socks and toothpaste for the men.
Following the projects, it was dinner at Rudy's BBQ, and then traveling farther south to Brownsville, where the POWER men stayed the night. Tomorrow, it's a visit to Magdiel Bible School in Matamoros.
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