God sitings galore

Greetings all,

As sleep is overcoming me I thought I'd give you a few details about the trip to Mexico and City of Refuge orphanage. SonLight Power teamed with Lifeway Christian Church and Esperanza4U charity to install a 3.5 KW solar power system in the Rosirita campus of the orphanage. Before the install CoR was using approx. $1800/mo of diseal fuel to power the facility.

In advance of the install site, Allen requested a "carport like structure" with a slightly slanted roof facing south. Something was lost in the translation and when the team showed up there was a 20' high structure with a 45-degree roof. No one of the LifeWay team was experienced on a roof with that steep of a slant. Allen, considering the SLP roof history was not at all comfortable with the situation.

AS we prepared to start the install, - some of our team were fashoning safety harnesses when a team from Sidney Ohio showed up. Four guys from the team came over and said, "we heard you needed help with the roof. What can we do to help?"

God had sent four guys with plenty of roof experience who installed the 21 solar panels without any problem inside of two days (see photos on front page of SLP web site). The Lifeway team did the rest of the work and we cut the generator off at noon of the second day. More details in the next issue of the SonLight Beacon.

When I returned to Cincinnati with 4 days to prepare for the trip to Guatemala, i discovered an e-mail which included a warning from the US Embassy regarding possible kidnapping of children in Guatemala. The trouble was not in the area of our focus, so we were concerned, but not ready to give up the trip. The next day we got an e-mail our missionary hosts telling us not to come - the violence was not right there, even on their street.

We were discussing our options when Lance Brown suggested calling Meilyn and Mauricio Moncada to see if we could shift our focus to Honduras. Meilyn had been a translator on a previous trip, Mauricio was scheduled to translate for the Guatemala team, and were in the process of developing future Honduras projects.

When we called them, Meilyn called her cousin, a shephard of a church in Choluteca, in the south of the country. They had been talking about a three schools becoming projects. Within 24 hours the project came together...and the cousin offered free hotel rooms in Choluteca and free transportation if we came. There was a scheduled team meeting that night. We prayed and talked to Meilyn by phone. It was obvious God was in this.

Now, as you read this we are either on the way or already in Honduras. More when we're on the way back.
Blessings
Allen

posted by SolarAl @ 7:17 PM