Yesterday we delivered the truck load of medical supplies we brought from Guatemala City to the Peten. My Sweet Refuge is the first and only Nursing Home in the Peten or Guatemala for that matter. Sonia and Roberto Rivera started the project 4 years ago in there home and had to move to a bigger place when they had over 30 homeless men living in a 2 bedroom home. No man was turned away and every man died receiving Christ. Sonia and her husband gave each person who passed a respectful funeral with a box instead of a plastic bag.
Now it has grown to over 60 people and she has a full time staff and a new building. God has done so much from 2 years ago when I sat in the kitchen of her house talking about the vision God gave her and not having enough money to feed the guys, as a rat crawled across the electric cord in the rafters. The Guatemalan government has notice the success and gave a grant to build 13 more homes all over Guatemala by 2010 using My Sweet Refuge as a model.
After we delivered all our medical supplies I heard two of the residents here playing the guitar and worshiping God. I grabbed my camera and asked them to start again and they graciously started from the beginning. (I will download soon) The old guitar had a old rusty nail tied with a rope for a capo and they sang their hearts out as another old man sat on the bed and wept, while then other guy shaved his face, without looking I may add, and shouted Hallelujah.
My Sweet Refuge is a modest place and makes our worst Nursing homes in the states look like a five star Hotel. Just the laundry washed and hung on the lines is a huge day to day task. But even though it is modest it is full of love and grace and it really is their Sweet Refuge.
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