Guess Who Is In Control

GUESS WHO IS IN CONTROL?

Our trip was coming to a conclusion now near the end of June. We had finished working alongside the Indians on the Rio Dulce River building benches for the church and extracting teeth and doing other dental work in a makeshift facility on the outskirts of the village. It was time to head to Zacapa to meet up with a team of block masons from North Carolina. The dorms for the mountain children were ready to have the initial blocks laid. These men from the mountains of North Carolina, full of country twang and bear hunting exploits, were here for the mountain children of Pinalito and Mantasana. To be at this juncture in the building process was a story in its own right. Twice I had seen what could only be God intervening in the construction process. Only days before the footers are to be dug a long time missionary, Paul Emory who for years headed up construction building throughout the world for Missionary Ventures, called Michael to let him know he was flying a small plane into Zacapa-----Could Michael pick him up? Arriving at the job site Paul quickly noticed the building was laid out incorrectly. He spent that evening redrawing the plans to add more bathrooms and provide a better utilization of the space. The next day the building was re-laid to the new set of plans. After Paul had left, Andrew Weiver calls from New York saying that he’s coming in. Andrew is a college student studying construction and engineering. I had met him a couple months earlier when he came in for a week with a group of volunteers from New York Times Church. The timing was perfect, with his expertise in structural steel and concrete strength the pads and footers were formed, poured, and ready just in time for the masons. With the masons came another surprise Dan Schieffelin. He happened to be a warranty and service provider for Gentrac Catepillar generators. That particular generator was the main generator for the mission and had been out of service for with no one able to get it running. Dan had it purring by the following day. As help were needed God continually provided and expert in that field. It was quite amazing to experience.