A journey through waiting

2010 soon ended and as we entered 2011 we appeared to be no further along. I had put pencil to paper with various sketches on possible designs. We felt that we were to first build a school, having  years of experience under our belts and use this as a launch pad into the community with further phases to reach the youth and also the adults.

The Living Word Benefit Foundation was voted a Public Utility by the Borough Council and there was a hope that maybe land in the middle of the New District would be allocated to the Foundation to establish the Rescue Project. Plans were submitted for the 60X80m area but as time went by we continued to trust in God alone.

We need land which could facilitate the building of a school, play area and also with room for future development. As I drove about the New District my attention was drawn to a lovely piece of land which already had a wall around it, the land was about 30X40m and it seemed to be everything we were dreaming.

Yet the land was overpriced at a staggering R$30,000. We kept praying and looking…….other lands became available and slipped away as land prices began to sore throughout Maues. As God was answering prayers by sending in more professionals, a new hospital was built, meat prices and land prices began to go through the roof, even in the poorest areas, people were hoping to get rich fast!