Today our prayer focus is for the families we serve to come to know Christ and accept Him as their Lord and Savior. Sometimes, because our ministry uses the building of a home as our main tool to spread the Gospel, people get confused and think that our purpose is humanitarian and what we care about is providing shelter. We do love that at the end of every week of service we get to hand the family keys to their new home, and we walk away with the knowledge that they will no longer live in that cardboard and pallet, or tin shack that sits beside their new home. However, we love it even more that we walk away knowing that we have played a part in planting the seed of God’s word into their lives, and that we have opened a door for a local pastor to have a relationship with a family he might not otherwise have been able to cultivate.
Casas por Cristo exists to build homes, change lives, and save the lost. While we realize that only the blood of Jesus and the grace of our Lord saves a person’s soul, our ministry exists to be a tool to bring someone to that point in their life where they realize their desperate need for Him. The building of a home and handing it over as a free gift is meant to point them to an even greater free gift offered to us through Jesus Christ. We desire more than anything to carry out the great commission given to us in Matthew 28:19-20
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Please pray with us that every seed that is planted in the form of the building of a new home produces a harvest. Pray that the families and those in the communities around them that we serve will come to know Christ as their personal Lord and Savior.
-Scott
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