On the Home Stretch

As you probably know, Sowers4Pastors has hosted a steady stream of visiting teams this summer. Each team has visited a unique location, but most of those teams have done pretty much the same thing. Each team has gone to their particular sponsorship center. They’ve met the children. They’ve done VBS programs. They’ve registered children for the program, or handled well visits, if that was needed at their particular sponsorship center. This week’s team has a different agenda.

For the second week in a row, a team from Lighthouse Church in Glen Burnie, Maryland is visiting. Last week’s team did the sponsorship center/VBS stuff. This week’s team consists of seven or eight men who are there because they want to see all of the Sowerses FINALLY move into their new homes. Remember, Russell, Iris, and family will be moving into the new home, which was originally going to be for Allen and Trish. Allen and Trish will be moving into Russell and Iris’s current, smaller home. Plus, a new building will be erected, which will be used as a storage facility, office, bookstore, and a bunkhouse for male interns. Ben will also have a private bedroom in this building, since there won't be space for him to have a separate room in Allen and Trish’s new home.

The industrious team is doing plumbing and electrical finish work. While Russell and Allen have the ability to do those tasks, they usually lack the time, because they're busy with ministry duties. This church has put together funds, and is taking a week to make it happen! The team is also helping pour concrete for the new building on the Sowers’ property, and putting up a new playground at a school that is part of the Crucitas sponsorship center, during their visit.


The projected move-in date for all of the involved Sowerses is sometime between January and April of 2019. Much of the timing will come down to the construction of the new building. If the building is completed when the next containers arrive, the contents will be loaded into it. If not, the contents will be moved into the new house, and all construction will halt until the container donations have been distributed.

Trish, for one, is pleased with the proposed schedule because she will have time to get some more decluttering done before moving into a smaller building. She has been so busy with the new website that decluttering has been put on the back burner for a while. And, as you might imagine, when you live in a warehouse you have the space to hold on to things!

According to Ben, there is now a working bathroom in the new house! Wahoo! Progress is a great thing! A flushing toilet is also a great thing. And, of course, a team of men willing to fly to Honduras to work on a house is a WONDERFUL thing.

 - posted by Christi