After several adjustments and some unexpected cash, at 4:30 we lacked only $12.42. We can cover that…I spoke with the mayor of Rondon yesterday and we agreed upon July 18 and 19th as their clinic days…. Alfredo and I made up the list of industrial tools he will need in order to do production work. I will publish those later on to see if anyone might have a tool they're not using that could be put on the container later this summer. He said with those tools he can turn out some of those items in 20 min…. I spent a couple hours with Louise Paz this afternoon and they are very excited with the potential of the new church …The builder came by this evening with some questions about the second floor of the dormitory. He appears ready to move ahead…. Carlos, age 10, has been working for us about two months. Yesterday he hit me up for a raise so he can buy more snacks at recess. Mike and I leave at 430 tomorrow morning to return to Tulsa for a couple weeks.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY: “God is dead” ------ Nietzsche; “Nietzsche is dead” ------ God
We got to Tulsa about 6 pm, dropped the boys off at the house, and went to the Carpenters (FUMC) Sunday school class evening meeting. They are real prayer warriors and we like to keep them up to date. On 5/13 I wrote that we needed $2200 for payroll on the 15th and that we had $2185; lacked $15. When we got out of the mountains of Kentucky where we could receive an Internet connection there was an e-mail from Bridge the Gap International saying "a deposit of $15.12 was made to Gathering Hearts today.”…. We are most grateful to Jim Redyke and Gene Moffitt for their recent visit to the mission center. In addition to identifying and meeting a need at the manufacturing facility, they showed that you don't need a week of free time to come and visit us; they had less than 24 hours. (I almost said that Jim "exploded” the myth).
THOUGHT FOR TODAY: To the extent we make verbal commitments to the Lord (e.g. “I give up all my plans… and accept Your will for my life… forever”) without a commitment from the heart we begin to immunize ourselves against the true Gospel. Aldus Huxley once wrote, “The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of anyone’s will being done but their own.” I think he might have gone on to say, “And they don’t feel a thing.” That sounds like immunization.
Today was payday, and as usual we were not quite sure where the money was going to come from. The salaries, pay for extra workers, car registration, and other expenses came to $3208. We had a small check from one of the churches; $79 cash on hand, $158 collected from the clinic, and $2971 balance in our checking account for a total of $3260. We made it with $52 to spare.
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