It is always amazing to see how the Lord provides for His workers. He recently used True Path Ministry in an unexpected encounter with a Christian group from Chiapas, which is a state many hours from Galeana.

Harry and Patricia Williamson are missionaries who manage Camp Peniel in Tuxpan near Galeana, NL, Mexico.

Steve and I met Harry and Patricia Williamson soon after they moved to Tuxpan, a small village about 10 minutes from Galeana, NL. They are missionaries from Texas that had previously lived at Camp Peniel, in the village of Tuxpan. They had family issues and needed to return to Texas for a time, but now are back in Mexico.

I was talking with Patricia, on the phone, and mentioned to her how I had been trying to get the donated clothes better organized.  The clothes are in garbage bags and are piled one on top of another in a room at our ministry house.  We often take them to remote farms and villages in the area.

As we were talking, Patricia mentioned a ministry from Chiapas. She said someone had recently spoke at their church and said the people there are extremely poor. They have to work several weeks just to get enough pesos to buy food or clothes.

She thought the group from Chiapas was still around Galeana.  She asked if I would be willing to donate clothes to the group. Of course, I said “yes, we would be honored to help by donating.” She said she would make some calls and let me know.

The next morning, Patricia called me to let me know the group was still near Galeana but would be leaving that day. She asked if they could come by the ministry house to get some clothes. I said yes and then met Patricia and the group at the ministry house.

The Christian band from the Mexican state of Chiapas shared one of their CD’s with us.

The group took five large black trash bags full of clothes. I wasn’t sure how they would fit the bags plus the five men in the small car but they managed to stuff it all in.

It was so rewarding to see how excited they were to receive the clothes. We exchanged information and I told them to give us a call next time they were in town.

This was no coincidence. God knew they were in town and He knew we had to get rid of an oversupply of clothes. God worked it all out for HIS Glory!!

The group was living out Matthew 6:25-32:

 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’  For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

For the first time ever power lines were recently extended to Canoas, a tiny mountain Mexican village. When we were holding services there at the Christian church recently (see Easter Service at Mexican Mountain Village Canoas), we made a material list of what was needed to get electricity in the church building. A few days later True Path Ministry set out to install the needed wiring with a small team that included Arlen, who was visiting from Texas, Evangelist Ramiro, Stephen and local pastor Alfredo.

When we first arrived many of the children from the village came to greet us. They were curious about what we were going to do there. We also had a couple of men leave their sheep herds to check out our work. They liked seeing Arlen’s battery powered tools and were especially interested in seeing how we connected the plugs and switches. CFE, the electric utility in Mexico, still has to run a service wire to the building, but it is wired and ready to receive electricity.

The pastor’s family also fed us a simple meal of tortillas, beans and rice – their tortillas are wonderful. They use the corn they raise, hand grind it and cook it over a small wood fueled stove. It was a fun day serving the Lord and installing the wire, boxes, conduit and fixtures needed. We have been to the village many times and they are always welcoming – they are our family in Christ.

Ramiro (left), Arlen, and local pastor Alfredo were the wiring team (click on a photo to see it closer).

Stephen was also part of the wiring team.

Their homemade corn tortillas were very good.

They were proud to show us their new corn grinder.

Their wood fueled cook stove is typical of those used in many mountain villages.

The people of the village live off the land raising corn, sheep and goats.

Farming small fields and raising livestock is how most folks make their living in Canoas.