At El Jordan, there never seems to be many just plain boring days…  Today was a mixture of all sorts of feelings…
 
For the past year or so we´ve battled with our fridges at El Jordan…  Some of them are 15 years old, and just don´t work like they used to… One doesn´t work at all, two others (in volunteers´ apartments) work when they want to, and our main kitchen fridge works at half speed…  Some have seen half a dozen technicians… others just one or two…  This Sunday we have our open house – where we invite churches and friends to come and buy things that our students´ have made…  and we NEED fridges that work!

 

We had money for one fridge… and thought this was a good time to spend it…  You should have seen our volunteers’ faces when we said we were going to get a new fridge… Today when it was delivered, there were squeals, smiles and literal jumping up and down…  They were like kids with a new puppy… (excitement!)

¨Thankfulness¨ has been popping frequently as we plan our anniversary celebration at the end of this month… Our focus is ¨15 Years:  Celebrating God´s Faithfulness” and the invitation is open to “anyone who God has touched through the ministry of El Jordán” so together we can “thank HIM”…

 

Last night Heidi invited us to celebrate ¨Canadian Thanksgiving”… a dozen DELICIOUS dishes, 5 nationalities around the table, one spirit of thankfulness for all God has done for us… How beautiful that we can be brought all together in gratefulness to HIS truth and faithfulness…

 

Today was the icing on the cake…

 

I went to visit Elias at lunch time… I went up to Intensive Care… Looked on the board… “Elias Ortiz”… Bed 5… My glance went to the scrubs visitors have to wear… Bed 5… the scrubs were hanging there… No visitors… I could go in…

 

One… Two… Three… Four…

 

I looked beyond the curtain that separated 4 and 5…