Week 5 in Zaragoza

This was my last week in Zaragoza. The cistern is in but not running correctly. DSL was completed on Friday and I booked a flight to leave on Monday. Kind of crazy right, but God called my attention to the fact that my home in Georgia had not rented and we all know that is no biggie for God. I was able to get hold of my friend Patti to get me a round trip flight to Atlanta from El Salvador, she was such a blessings for me. She is gone allot and she was home when I called and she was able to get me on a flight in a few hours. Two ladies stepped up and became workers for iCOR, one a doctor and one worked with World Vision. Both ladies are completely excited about working with the children in the daycare. My home will be used for a medical clinic and for various meetings and a place to stay when the teams come down. When I left the country I had told iCOR that I could be gone as little time as a month and that is just what God did. God rescued me, because I did not want to do daycare and am not a administrator, which is needed to. Isn't it great how God works all things for his good and ours if we let me. I can't wait to see were God leads me next.

week 4 in Zaragoza

Katherine Wilkinson, a friend of mine came to stay with me for one week. We did a prayer walk all around the Colonia Jarden(Colonial Garden) community twice and interceded for the people. Katherine felt a heavy burden of hopelessness. The following day she developed a migraine headache which she has not had in 3/4 years, you think the enemy didn't like that we did a prayer walk. Allot of the neighbors have been coming over. We went to dinner with Sylvia and her boyfriend, her brother Guillermo, cousin Wilber, neighbors children Gabriel and Manuel for papusa's. They are the native food and are great. Made with corn and stuffed with a veggie(ajoti) and cheese, beans and cheese, or pork, some places serve with chicken. They are soft and very good. I bought home made pan frances (french bread), queso (cheese) and lots of other things from the ladies selling up and down the side walks. I bought emphnadias for Katherine---they are bananas with milk and fried and rolled in sugar----served hot, excellente! I drove to Mister Donut one mornings and Subway one afternoon, which is a big step, due to the crazy drivers. Katherine and I had some great worship times and prayer times. She took lots of pictures also which I will share with you. We were able to spend one whole day at the beach at a hotel, we laid by the beach, we laid by the pool, we had lunch, we had frozen drinks and we had a shower before we left. It was such a great day God gave us. It was such a blessings to have my friend come down. She got to help in the school and saw the opening of the daycare that Monday before she left. Her flight was scheduled to leave on Sunday but got cancelled and she got to see the children in the daycare.

Deborah Inabinet: in Zaragoza

Deborah Inabinet: New Ground/Moving Date

week 3 in Zaragoza

I was able to find a wonderful lady named Maria to wash my clothes every week. English classes were going strong and it was such a pleasure to help then with the pronouncing. My little house gets pretty hot by 11am, now I know why people hang outside. I clearly brought the wrong shoes to wear due to all the dirt and the rocks. It nice to go to church service on Saturday nights, the worship music is wonderful. I am praying for the spirit to fall in a wave of freedom of worship. The Pastors are such sweet men. The head Pastor Borja speaks English and Pastor Frank also the principal of the school speaks no English but we are able to communicate most of the time. My pila in the house, were you store water for toilet flushing and baths had a leak, so I had no water. I told Pastor Frank and he immediately got me two barrels and pumped water into them for me. Great people. No DSL yet. Allot of the past weeks I have gone every few days to Liana's moms house just 10 to 15 min. away to take a shower. I think I have mastered washing dishes in cold water---even when grease is involved.

week 2 in Zaragoza, El Salvador

My second night in the house alone, I heard a few thumbs on the roof and some weird movements. The next morning in my poor Spanish I spoke to the Pastor who as the Principal of the School too and he said it was gato's. That is cat in Spanish and yes it was cats on the roof at night, could be why there a no problems with rats!
I began to go to the Peniel church school to help Giovini, the English teacher with the pronunciation of English words. The older kids 15 - 17 years old really were hungry to learn and were so excited. The children were not so structured as our schools, they were chatting among themselves, moving around and rather noisy most of the times. When I explained to them how our schools ran they were so surprised and said we would not like that!
I was able to go to the younger kids later in the week and they just were so excited I had come, they were yelling and we had to bring them back to order.
I began using the cyber cafe 3 houses down to my home because dsl was not ordered yet from my home. The keyboards were older, some keys in the wrong place and the shift key for capitalizing was to hard to press. They were 5 computers in the room and in the next room a video game going most of the time for the kids. The girl who owned the cafe was Sylvia, who spoke English well and really turned out to be a dear friend---God's plan all along. I found out she had been hurt a few years back and had just started returning to church again. Beautiful young lady of 22 years. Through Sylvia I met her cousin Wilbur-who's English was very good and her Aunt who owned the small store across from my house and many others. My neighbors children were coming to color in my house quite often and teaching me Spanish. One little girl Gabriel and her brother Manuel were frequent visitors to my home. Gabbi ate with me on 2 occasions.
Other than being extremely hot, life was good and really starting to enjoy the food. I was given a Jeep Cherokee to drive and it even had air condition.

Zaragoza, El Salvador, first week 2/2 - 2/8

The first week I was in Zaragoza there was a small team with me, it consisted of Liana Colgate, Lauren Colgate, Dolly Drysdale (from my church-NorthGate). We worked very hard because when we arrive to the house it was all painted but off white and seemed really dreary and live less.
The very next day Liana and Erick Moran went and chose new and vibrant colors of paint and off we went to painting. Dolly did all the trim in the house a Terra cot ta color and it just set everything off. All was well.
We went and got to pick out furniture and appliances for the new little home. Most all was delivered Saturday and everyone spent the night in the house, the neighbors sent in their children barring gifts, it was really humbling.

The Old is gone/The New Coming

Most of my stuff in my house has been removed and my parents are keeping it for me.Praise God! God keeps telling me to go and the founder of iCOR keeps hearing from God go but my home still has not rented. If for some reason I don't rent it by 2/1/09, I will go down with the team on 2/2/09 and return with the team on 2/8/09 until the house does rent. It is interesting living in a 1/2 empty house and Daisey (dog) doesn't know what to think! I have several gatherings of friends this weekend as send offs and my church (NorthGate) will pray over me also. In His timing it will all take place!