God's Big Work through Our Small Efforts

Big News. God brought fruit from our outing last week.
Last Saturday, I went with some family members to serve with the Pastor of a Spanish Speaking Church to minister in a neighborhood in East Ft. Worth (see post of Feb. 25, Sharing God's Love in Little Ways). We did not do anything big, and I did not expect to SEE any fruit from it. We went with a desire to share God's love, and to help this Pastor meet some people in an area that he is burdened for.
Well...Libby called yesterday with a report.
Pastor Luis went back to do some follow-up visits.
He visited the family with 4 year old Billy who has Cerebral Palsy. His mother became a believer.
He also visited the home with the 6 year old who has a brain tumor. Her mother and her Grandmother came to Christ.
This is amazing. I am just praising God for His work and thanking Him for allowing me to be a part of it. I am also thankful for a humble servant like Pastor Luis who is faithful to minister in this area.

" What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. 7 So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God's fellow workers;" 1 Cor 3:5-9

I also want to report on some "small things" that are being done. The Cottonwood Ladies Bible Study group that meets in DeLeon have really taken the idea of having an outward focused life and run with it. They are so busy, doing all kinds of ministry in the area. Here is a report from their last project.

"For Valentine’s celebration we wanted to make some widows and single moms feel special; so the Agape Givers (DeLeon Bible Study ladies) made coverlets out of red and pink fleece. Colleen Stockman kindly cut the fabric for us and then during one of our Thursday lunches we made yoyo’s and used them along with buttons and beads to decorate the coverlets and then they were delivered to 8 women. There were great smiles and thank you’s from the ladies. We are looking forward to projects we have scheduled for the future."