Got a e-mail today from one of my friend’s who I ministered to at El Reffugio. I first met Jessica and Juan in April when I went to a music festival in the mountain’s of Oaxaca. They had been friend’s for about five year’s and used together. Earlier this year they decided to get clean. I remember them at the festival because Jessica was one of the few people who spoke english. When I got done giving my testimony Juan gave me a hi-5, I think something about my testimony beyond drug’s and alcohol resonated with him. Anyway’s After being clean for a few month’s they decided to get married. They seemed to be doing well living at El Reffugio and serving there. Just before I left Jessica became pregnant, and they decided they needed to move on get a place of thier own and go back to work. I don’t know detail’s but Juan has fallen back into drug’s. So I ‘m asking you to pray for my friend’s Juan and Jessica.I e-mailed her this 26 yr. old mother to be, a letter of encouragement. I shared with her about my own struggle’s in shaking off drug’s and alcohol. That I didn’t get it the first go round. That it’s hard to face the monster under the bed(the pain we often run from) that there is a void in us all that only JESUS can fill. So now this baby Christian with child need’s her family to gather around her and help them through. Iv’e offered to go back to Oaxaca and take them back to El Reffugio. When the LORD deliver’s us from something we have a compulsion to fill the void with something else.That something else is supposed to be him.I know there are still area’s of my life I need the LORD’s freedom in.So sometime’s I beleve we need to help people carry thier crosses until they are strong enough and I know experientially the most powerful testimony is that of love. If it were not for the love of Christ shown through some obedient servant’s and that include’s prayer warrior’s I know I’d be dead. Shalom,
Hugh
