The church church in La Libertad, El Salvador, has a great reason to rejoice once more. The dedicated a few days ago their new temple, or gathering place.
Pastor Ivo tells us that for about 12 years the church met in house, with very little accommodations for a large crowd, still they grew up to 75 people who gathered every week.
The new location has a capacity of 250 and for Mother’s Day the capacity was reached, and they hope that it will overfilled very soon. “God rejoices and so do we” said Geovanny, one of the church leaders.
This accomplishment was achieved thanks to the support of the Great Commission Foundation, Great Commission Latin America, individual donors, church members, and the participation of U.S. Churches who partnered not only financially but also physically by coming to work for a week.
One remarkable event was that 20 men from our GCLA churches in Choluteca and Managua came for some days to work alongside the church members and workers to finish setting the roof.
Pastor Ivo says, thanks to God and to all of you who made this project a finished reality.
Now we are building five new homes, which will be soon finished and inhabitated. Throughout this year we will build a high-rise water tank to serve the community, a sewer system, some of the gray water will be recycled to be used as irrigation in the green areas of the park.
One of the last requirements to receive the orphan HIV/AIDS children in Casa Hogar Vida was the fence, we are building it and it should be finished within a month. The Honduran children agency has already assigned 4-6 children that could come and live here. Also other organizations who have had children with no place to settle them will be contacted to be able to serve these children.
A US college student designed a type of cheap, hard working, efficient, utility vehicle that could be used for heavy tasks in places of community service such as Casa Hogar. These vehicle is made in Honduras.
The Choluteca church has been growing in attendance and in services to their community. Some weekends the church receives 300 or more people, but it fits only 250. The church is building an expansion to the Auditorium where now 550 people will seat comfortably.
The community “Esperanza” has new kids in the block. Luz moved with her children, and Ramon moved with his family. We were delayed due to water and sewer but now the systems are in, and soon more families will move.
