The Green House

Our bedroom in the green house

the living room

our kitchen on the first day

our yard

    

 

The Green House (moving day)

  

 

Dave teaching Luis to play American Football

Making eggs on the little stove... just like camping!

   

Z and Damaris happy to live closer to each other

The kitchen once we`d recieved a few gifts :)

We moved to the “green house”, as Z calls it, on Saturday.  It is only a few houses away from the YWAM base where we work, across the street from a little store, and only a couple blocks from our Spanish teacher, our good friends Luis and Ana, and within walking distance to a plaza where I can get coffee, baked goods, pizza, or fried chicken.  Plus, we are only a quick walk away from the bus stop where we can catch a chicken bus to Antigua for anything else we need!  I am so happy!  

    This week the DTS is learning about Supernatural ministry and healing, and so their teacher spoke at our Monday night church service (it`s an English-speaking church service put on by our YWAM staff every Monday as an outreach to tourists and other missionaries in Antigua).  It was an inspiration message, reminding us all to claim who we are in Christ and to walk in victory.  Then last night there was a time of teaching at the base, where people from the community were invited to learn about prophesy, and speaking words of life and encouragement over each other.  Dave was able to go (because we live so close now- yay!), and got the chance to speak over many of men that came to the meeting.  

     The Green House has become a place of prayer for me.  It is a very simple home, we don`t have much, and yet our friends from the community want to be here because it is clean, peaceful, and because the Spirit of God is here.  There is a sense of calm over this home, a sense that God has great plans for our lives in this home.  We are in a time of need, and yet a time of great peace and eagerness to walk in the fullness of God.  

      Our friend Luis had a tumor removed last month which was malignant.  Dave went with him to Guatemala city a couple weeks ago to have a scan done to check for cancer in the rest of his body.  We prayed every day that the scan would come back clean... and it did.  God has provided for the surgery, and now has cleaned Luis` body of cancer... Praise God!  We moved into this house without a scrap of furniture, and within two days we had been able to buy a bed at a huge discount, borrowed a little stove, fridge, and bed for Z (who has outgrown his playpen).  As I was packing I found Q300 in a wallet I forgot I still had, and it was enough to buy a couple shelves and chairs for the house... and then the next day Luis and Ana brought lunch for us along with a little kitchen table.  We were blown away!  Every need is being met, not in our strength, or even our timing (as in waiting for a baby), but we have such assurance that God is with us every step of the way.  

       We have a list on the wall of the kitchen of all the ways God has provided for us in this move to the Green House.  I never want to forget the ways that God provides for us.  Sometimes I miss my family, or my home in Canada, or Kraft dinner... and I need to remember that God brought us here out of His great love for us, and that nothing can remove that love from me.  I have a husband who cares for me, a son who brings me joy, a team who is now very near, a Spanish teacher who encourages me in my faith, and a God who is with me every single step I take.  He`s got plans... and I want to be part of them. 

     

 We live in hope of seeing God`s kingdom in Guatemala.  We live in hope of seeing our family grow.  We live in hope that we`ll see our families again.  And that one day we`ll be able to get some couches... that`d be good too.  Little needs and big, God is able and willing to provide.