A Jon Post
So we’re still here in Arizona. Sorry I’m a week late on this post. It feels like we’ve been busy but we’ve had an amazing time catching up with so many Godly men and women.
In sitting down with many of you, we’ve spoken about our future plans and what we would like to do in our ministry. We’ve tried to answer your many questions about what we do and what we hope to do.
As I listened to the questions that have been asked, I realized that I’ve not done a good job in communicating our heart and plans for Casa Ahava, what that means, where we are in the idea and what it holds. I hope this post makes that clear to those of you we haven’t had the chance to sit down with yet.
In our work in the hospital in Maputo, we focus on spending extended one-on-one time with people who have no one else. We try to give hope, life, a smile, and Christ in a place where pain, loneliness and death so often have victory. Our home has an extension behind it where there are two humble bedrooms joined by a bathroom in the middle with a storage/laundry area behind them. When we moved in to this home in June of this year we dreamed of renovating them, painting and furnishing them and offering them to friends at the hospital who would otherwise live in a single bed in a cold crowded room. The rooms began as water-damaged, surrounded by peeling paint, and covered in dirt. Just before we moved in a small team came to visit us. They caught the vision we had to create something beautiful. They worked tirelessly and where they left off I continued the job. At the end of October, two days before we left for America, we finished the renovations/painting/furnishing. I was even able to convert the small laundry/storage area into a kitchenette where guests can make their favorite food.
We are ready.
When we arrive back in Maputo in January we are eager to begin offering the space we have to people who need it much more than we do, pending hospital approval.
Below are some pictures of the work that was done. Just click on the pictures to advance inside the gallery. If you have any questions about this project, it’s funding, or really anything we do or hope to do I’d love it if you would leave that question in the comments. I will answer them the next time I post.
Well you have said it beautifully now :) I thank God for preparing these rooms through His willing servants and He will be faithful to bring it to completion and use it for His children! I love ya’ll for loving His people :) Godspeed the plans!
Guys! It’s amazing how much better it looks! Really a good job!
When you come back, I have an idea (if you don’t have it yet) to make the floor also better. I think it’s not expensive, but I’ll try to make sure before you come, so maybe you can raise the fund there. It’s like an “autocolante” (like a sticker??) The goes on the top of the old floor. We can get it here or in SA…They have many patterns…
Well, just any idea to make Casa Ahava even more cozy :o)
Miss you guys! Looking foward to have you back.
Well I have to post again, because yesterday my phone would not pull up pics so now as I view w/ Jon’s cool ability to do a slide show (;)); I LOVE LOVE the end result!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS to every person who worked on Casa Ahava….what a serene place to heal :)
So lovely, so inviting, so peaceful, so healing :-)
What a delightful transformation you have brought to those previously unused, unlovable little rooms. May the Holy Spirit fill them with his presence!
awesome!!!!!! it looks spectacular! sure you dont want to stick the word hotel on there? :-P
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