Beginnings

Technology drives me crazy - after spending an hour creating what I thought was a blog - it is not - so here I go again.  But, alas, it is late and I like to sleep - so I will copy and paste hopefully from what I did somewhere else and then on another day explain my title.

So here it is - Well, my blogging career has started.  I needed a place to keep, organize and share my passion.  Two Sundays ago our Youth Pastor at church gave a message titled, "Families Serving Together".  It was a challenging and yet encouraging message as our family had just spent the March break in El Salvador helping to build homes and loving the people.  From all the challenges he gave I remember this as if he shouted it, "Find something close to the heart of God and go for it!"  I leaned over to a good friend of mine with a big smile on my face and said, "I found mine!"  James 1:27 says, "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."

It felt like I was awakened in El Salvador, that I truly started living.  God has opened the doors for Rebecca and I to return to El Salvador in August with a women's sewing team - the catalyst to this blog.  To share, organize and ask for help in gathering supplies - mostly used articles laying around our houses.  More on that later.  Time is flying by as we are leaving on August 17.  We will be there for one week and will be teaching 51 women different projects to make to sell.

This is my overview - purpose - vision for this blog.  Please join me in making a difference in people's lives.  The needs of this world are overwhelming, but if we each give a little, it adds up to a lot.  You think what is one drop of water in a bucket, but one drop makes a ripple effect that goes beyond what we can imagine.