Saturday, May 06, 2006

Onil Stoves

Today, May 1, 2006, I went on an all-day trip with Macro Estrada (a servant for the Lord in *El Tizate) and Raymundo (a pastor from Tecpan) to install 3 Onil Stoves (see Helps Intl) in San Pablo la Laguna, Tecpan, and San Antonio (near the volcano Acatenango).

*Note:
A donor provided Marco the seed money to purchase 27 stoves for El Tizate, the colonia where Marco lives. Families are commiting to paying for the stoves within 10 months. When the funds have been recovered for the initial stove purchase additional stoves will be purchased. Servants 4 Him has been working in El Tizate more than one year installing Bio-sand water filters there and running filter construction classes for pastors.

The first stove was d
elivered and installed in the home of Efrain and Betty Calvo. Efrain is the pastor of an Assemblies of God church in San Pablo la Laguna (on Lake Atitlan). Servants 4 Him (S4H) has been working with pastor Efraim since last year when San Pablo was significantly impacted by Hurricane Stan. San Pablo is a community we hope to see transformed. A mission team from Grace Bible Church in Leesburg, VA will be helping on a construction project and building bio-sand water filters this summer (July 2006).

Pictures of the stove installation in San Pablo



Construction site of Efrain and Betty's new home.


We departed San Pablo and dropped off Raymundo and his stove in Tecpan. Raymundo is in the process of helping transform his community by making and selling knitted products. He is also a pastor and looking for assistance to build a church in Tecpan.

Marco and I proceeded to San Antonio. We went to the home of a poor, but industrious, woman with 5 children, and taking care of 3 others. She is trying to support her family by making tortillas and weaving mats. We installed both an Onil Stove as well as stove for cooking corn used to make tortillas; which uses Onil design concepts.

Pictures of the cooking area before and after the stove installation are provided below.

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If you are interested in any of the projectd mentioned in this blog, or have a desire to help in any way please contact Forrest Kendall.

In all of these projects our desire is to Glorify Christ Jesus and hopefully open doors to introduce Him to families.

Forrest Kendall
May 1, 2006

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