His Perfect Timing by Mark and Lucy

This week has been exciting. Before we got to work on Monday, we (Mark, Lucy, Aaron, Joanna, Ashleigh, Troy, and Jerry) spent Sunday seeing some local sights. We drove up Mount Popo as far as is allowed for some awesome photos, a snack, and a group Bible study in English. It was a beautiful clear day, and the fresh snow on the peak provided some great pictures. After we drove down the mountain, we headed for the hacienda ruins near Refuge Ranch.

Troy Robertson and Jerry Roller are here from Logansport, and I am enjoying working with them. We are working with different materials than any of us have used before so we are learning as we go. Of course, I was hoping we would be able to frame all the apartment walls and get drywall hung this week. It has been a little slower than we like, but it has been very good progress. We are framing each wall with steel studs, running electrical wiring, and installing styrofoam insulation as we go. We have figured out a process that is working pretty well. Here are some pictures of our current progress.

Neither Troy nor Jerry had ever traveled outside of the country before last Saturday. They did not meet until they saw each other at the airport. They both had wanted to go on mission trips with their church groups to Refuge Ranch, but the time had not been right. Yet God called them to come and help us this week, and we are grateful. He is so good at providing what is needed at just the right time. They both have skills that we needed this week to complete the framing for the drywall. It would have taken much longer to complete without their help and knowledge of construction. God chooses many times to give us just what we need at just the right time. This was one of those times.

Last year, we did a cantata at church for Christmas called “In the Fullness of Time.” When the time was right, God sent His only son to earth to save the people from their sins. When the time is right, He will return to bring His children home. In the meantime, when the time is right, He will send just the right people to Refuge Ranch to do His work here in Mexico. Thank God for His perfect timing.

But when ^the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, ^born of a woman, born ^ under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. Galatians 4:4-5

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