Dear
friends,
I am
writing from an improvised desk at the hotel. It has been a month since we
were displaced from our home by the fire next door. For those who don’t know,
the building adjacent to our house got fire. Hannelore called our children who
were sleeping at home and from the school,
she saw Lucas and David fleeing the house between columns of smoke that
surrounded our house. The picture of the house and the smoke was taken by
Hannelore from the school.
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| Our house is the white house near the burning building |
Hannelore found a text that inspired our souls: Isaiah 43:2 "When you have troubles, I am with you. When you cross rivers, you will not be hurt. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not hurt you."
Our house suffered from smoke and
water from the fire department (thank God was not hit directly by the fire), the
city closed our house and they will decide when it is safe to return (the
building that caught fire is unstable and may
collapse).
We received the love of friends and
many offered their home for us to stay. Thanks to all of you. We moved to an
hotel paid by the rental insurance.
Lucas, our son, began his first
official work "full time" in a company that is widening a freeway called
Turnpike. It is a paid internship that helps with experience. He is enjoying it
and learning a lot. We are very proud of our son who is undertaking this new
stage of his life.
David was inducted into the National
Honor Society. He was the only male of his school of 3,000 students, along with
6 girls that received that honor. It was a joy to see the effort rewarded,
especially for Hannelore, in the education of David.
After many weeks of preparations I am
ready for the trip to Mozambique, as many of you know I am visiting Mozambique
to help people over there. We are fighting against malaria and other diseases.
We are helping people to know God. And we are involved in many development
project. You can read about it in http://welovemocambique.blogspot.com/
.
Tomorrow I am living for 2 weeks for Mozambique. I hope you
will remember me in your prayers and thanks to all that are already supporting our
efforts financially. My goal is to be able to listen and catch the vision of the
local leaders and find ways we can cooperate with them in their project.
One hope I have is to find a way we can motivate orphans to grow and be persons
of good. I hope that God will be glorified in everything we
do.
Photos of our fire (The white house
next to the fire is ours and the red car next to the firefighter is our car.
http://www.northjersey.com/photos/Photos_Raging_fire_engulfs_a_four-story_apartment_in_Passaic.html?photo=9&c=y
Visit
our Mozambique blog
Daniel
Martin
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