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Every Christmas, we put together a food distribution for especially needy families in the community where our home building ministry is focused. This year, because of your incredible generosity, we were able to double the size of our distribution and even add some extras! We have always included the basics for the average household here in Mexico, but this year we were able to add some meat and other items that are considered splurges. Thank you so much for your generosity!

Our order delivered is pictured below. It includes:

200 pounds rice

200 pounds beans

200 pounds wheat flour

120 pounds potatoes

6 cases masa flour

6 cases shelf stable milk

6 cases tomato puree

6 cases vegetable oil

6 cases pasta

200 pounds powdered all purpose soap

62 packages toilet paper

3 cases mayonnaise

1 case instant coffee

3 cases sugar

40 lbs chicken

3 cases hot dogs

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This family has two young kids, and their home is basically a one room studio apartment. Last year we were asked to give concrete so the Dad could poor a cement floor, and we learned about their situation when we delivered it. Their land goes straight up a mountain and this one room house was built right up against it. We knew we wanted to add onto the house, but the property is so vertical we would need to hire a tractor to clear a space for the construction. The first several we contacted didn’t even want to drive to the property, and wouldn’t consider working on it. After much prayer we found someone willing and construction began!  The addition will have one bedroom for the kids and one for the parents, with a bathroom in between. This will be their first indoor bathroom!

Because of your amazing generosity, we’ll be able to give this family some much needed space and raise their standard of living considerably. Thank you so much!

We have a steady harvest of zucchini and green beans. We are so grateful for such good weather to get our garden maturing and producing so well!

In early 2016 we started a garden to feed the poor in a small town in Mexico. Here’s what the garden looks like now!

We are harvesting Italian zucchini, traditional Mexican calabacitas, and several other types of squash, daily. The community now knows the harvest schedule well and those in need know when we’ll have fresh picked produce available.

Early 2016 we started a garden to feed the poor in a small town in Mexico. Here’s what the garden looks like now!

It’s been drier and warmer, but the garden is doing well! We continue to harvest many types of squash daily. We have melons, cucumbers, cabbage, peppers, and beets to harvest as well.

Thanks to your generosity, so many in this community who would have gone hungry now have fresh organic produce!

Many kids in the community love to come help too. They help carry and hand out the produce when it’s ready. We’ve even had a toddler who loves to sneak in and eat the cucumbers off the vine while the older kids are helping!

In early 2016 we started a garden to feed the poor in a small town in Mexico. Here’s what the garden looks like now!

We’ve been tilling the ground, adding new compost and fertilizer, and getting it ready for the next planting. We still have beets growing on the side, and our greenhouse is filled with seedlings ready to be planted once the soil is ready.

We’ve been so blessed with great weather! We’ve also been able to keep everything organic, and we haven’t had any problems with pests. Thank you Lord for protecting this garden! And thank you to all who join with us to keep this garden going to provide food to those in need!

You’ll see in the photos below the clever device our workers made to till the ground from scraps from our home building ministry! This is reusing at its finest, and it meant we didn’t need to buy any equipment.

In early 2016 we started a garden to feed the poor in a small town in Mexico. Here’s what the garden looks like now!

We’re transplanting our seedlings from the greenhouse, now that we’ve tilled and prepared the soil. We are growing zucchini and few different types of squash, along with cabbage, peas, corn, beets, peppers, and tomatoes.

In early 2016 we started a garden to feed the poor in a small town in Mexico. Here’s what the garden looks like now!

The garden is starting to fill in, and we are grateful for zucchini! They grow so quickly, we always have vegetables to give. We had a surprise rain storm that almost wiped out our tomato plants, but we’re praying they’ll recover.

We’ve planted the next side with seedlings, hoping to space out our harvest a little better this time. When the entire garden has produce ready for harvest every day, it’s hard to keep up, so we’re hoping to space it out to harvest from one side one day and then the other side the next. It’s a good problem to have!

In early 2016 we started a garden to feed the poor in a small town in Mexico. Here’s what the garden looks like now!

Praise the Lord for a twelve month growing season! Zucchini are still the favorite in the community and we’re making sure they’re always available to harvest. For variety, we’ve still been growing the large globe squashes as well. They’re so versatile.

Depending on how they’re cooked, they can taste like a traditional zucchini. But the texture also works well to cook them like pumpkin and sweeten it for dessert. So from the same large squash, you can take half to use for soup for dinner, and the other half with sugar to make a dish similar to our sweet potato pie (minus the marshmallows).

We’ve started a community garden! Along with our home repair and building projects, we’ve always given food, clothing, medical care and other necessities to those in need. Where we are in Mexico has such a long growing season, that we’ve wanted to grow food in the community for a long time. Everything finally lined up and we began. People started giving more and more, and one of our construction workers gave his land for us to use. Thank you all for your generosity to this ministry!

At first, we wanted to use the traditional community garden model, where each family gets a plot of land and they are responsible for it. They buy the compost and seeds, and they reap the harvest of what they grow. What a great model! And there is such talk and debate in the church now about how to give without hurting. How to give without creating dependency. I thought it would be a great example of helping people help themselves! But after much prayer, the Lord told me that this is not how we were to begin. In beginning, were to labor in the garden. We were to buy the materials. And we were to give the harvest to the community, so that they would see that He is feeding His people. Later perhaps it will be a traditional community garden, but for now it is a gift. How beautiful! Thank you Lord!