Update from the Fisher Fam (March 2009)
March 23, 2009 – 3:57 pmOkay, so much has happened since my last update a month ago I hope this doesn’t turn into a really long e-mail.
So I will start with the great news that our ceiling is FINALLY poured! Praise God! After time and money and money and more money not to mention hours and hours of labor it is finally done! The team of 29 that came down from Resurrection Christian School was a tremendous help both financially and with all their young strong bodies! The pour day was a crazy scene of 50 people working like crazy, the weather was great and everything went smoothly. Jervis was so nervous that they would be working until midnight with all the horror stories that people told him. But I knew he would pull it off, I am so proud of him. He ran the whole thing, had all the supplies and got finished a few minutes before 4pm. I don’t know what the significance of that ceiling was, but the devil sure didn’t want it done. You would never believe all we went through that day. To start with I had been sick for a few weeks, well that day I felt the worst. I had body aches, fatigue, chills; a headache…the list goes on and on. On top of it I had to cook for the team plus our ministry which is about 40 people total. I had no time to spare; I couldn’t stop and rest, and felt like I was going to collapse. Then the men we hired to help with the pour went on strike that morning wanting more pay. Even though they had already agreed to the amount, which by the way was more than the normal pay. We had all the money set aside and then one thing after the next came up and we needed way more money than we had. Then out of the blue Shandice’s biological father shows up. A little history there, she has only met him once when she was six. We have never seen or heard from him. Him and Jervis have a street history from years ago that did not end well and somehow he finds out we are living in Punta Gorda and picks that day to show up. Then insists he is not leaving until he sees Jerv. So among all that and more God won and the ceiling is done!!!!
The RCS team of students that was here had an amazing trip and we really enjoyed getting to know the students. Their lives were transformed and it is always incredible to see how the Lord works! The day before they left they ended up and had a baptism service in the river with over half the team getting baptized.
There are lots more I would like to say, but I know how busy everyone’s lives are and it is hard to read long e-mails. So I will keep it short and write more soon.
In Christ,
Melissa and Jervis
Praise God-missions work can be slow, but it will all be done in time-I know, for He has opened up doors and donations for me to be a children’s missionary in the Denver area-God is so cool!