Miracles still happen!

Hi everybody! Sorry for not keeping you up to date but I've been pretty busy with my classes AND working with the group from Germany. I've been on the construction site several times and when I couldn't afford to spent the whole morning painting windows and doing other exciting stuff (like collecting trash all around the church), I helped in the kitchen. It was actually fun baking my own bread, but I didn't forget about my promise to tell you about my experience in prison. The group is leaving on Sunday =( but it'll give me more time for myself - and writing blogs - again.

Today I just wanted to tell you a short miracle story from the construction site.
The day before we went to Santa Cruz, this young man in the picture fell off the roof while he was working up there, BUT it wasn't one of the one-floor churches we usually build. This church has two floors!! Furthermore, the spot where he fell was the very spot where he normally cut the bricks. It wasn't just some nice lawn! I wasn't there when he fell, but they told me, that the Bolivian workers carried him to a car on a tarp and immediately drove him to the hospital. In the evening, when the group came back, they were very worried. They hadn't heard anyhthing from the hospital yet and feared the worst (wheel chair, death...). Eufronio didn't feel like eating supper. He said that they had never had some bad accident like that one while he had been in charge of the church construction program of the Bolivian Union.

We started to pray for Joachim in small groups and just when we were about to finish, the door opened and somebody told us that a miracle had happened. Joachim was ok. He could move everything, had absolutely NO external injuries and was just a little bit sore. They kept him in the hospital for a day but couldn't find anything. I met him on the construction site on Wednesday and he said that his back was still hurting a little bit but nothing else. On Thursday, they took him back to the hospital for a check-up and said he wouldn't have to come again if he had no further problems. Today, I took this picture. He was back to work, smiling his timid smile.

He is a WALKING miracle. Considering the circumstances, he could/should be in a weel chair right now (...or still in hospital with at least some broken bones and serious injuries). We are praising the Lord that this is not the case. Tomorrow, we'll have the inauguration of both churches - and he'll be there on his very own feet, smiling and giving testimony just by his presence that we have a good and almighty God.

Miracles still happen. Don't be too timid too pray for the impossible because God is the God of the impossible!

Happy Sabbath to everybody!
maria