The Tunnel Project is complete! Well, sorta.
Many of you remember that in my last blog I told you that the teams left at KIM took on a project to pave the muddy, garbage-filled path that cuts through the Cuatro community and leads from the children’s home to the school. Team Karis headed up the project and my team agreed to help Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Team Karis began the project last Saturday and spent the day clearing 
garbage along the path. On Monday, Dunamis joined in and we worked the morning by finishing clearing garbage (I wouldn’t call the path clean, but rather workable) and leveling the deep canyon running through the middle of the path caused by years of heavy rainfall.
The path was paved with cement on Tuesday-Thursday. The project was an unbelievable success and was completed even quicker than expected. But while the physical work might be done, the real work in a way has yet to be started. Karis’s goal with the cement walk through was always to minister to the Tunnel community that lives along side the path. Throughout the week they were able to form relationships with families that live along side the path and the rest of the month will be spent deepening those relationships and allowing Christ to enter that community.
It was a great joy to be able to serve Karis in providing more hands and feet for their path project this last week. And it was even more amazing to see the project finished ahead of schedule.
You may be wondering what I was doing on Tuesday and Thursday when I was not helping team Karis. Tuesdsay is Team Dunamis ATL day. ATL stands for Ask the Lord, and it is a day when we do not schedule anything for us to do. We meet together as a team and ask God what He wants us to do that day. Some members of the team felt that we should pray for healing for someone, so we set off in a spirit of prayer to see where God would have us go. We eventually felt called to go to certain part of town where we met a man who had recently had a stroke. He told us that he could think thoughts clearly, but that he had trouble speaking them. We prayed for God to heal his tongue and mouth and when we were done the man thanked us and praised God (he constantly praised God both before and after we prayed for him). He was able to communicate more clearly after we were done praying, but he was not completely healed.
To read about a complete healing check out “Let the Healing Begin” by Lindsay Heston, Karis Team Leader or “Healed in Jesus Name” by my teammate Bev. These women stayed up all night praying for two extremely sick babies. When the doctor came back in the morning he thought he was in the wrong room. The babies were able to go home the next day.
Finally, a note about me: Thursday is personal day for each member of Team Dunamis, when each person seeks God for the ministry He wants us to do that day. I however spent the entire day in bed with the stomach flu. I threw up during the night before and had horrible stomach cramping all day. But I feel much better now and am ready for another week of work.
