Little did we know what God had in store for us when arriving in New City Fellowship Church. I sent one of my team leaders and his crew to 234 Nevada Ave. Looking back I could not have asked for a better servant than Sam Cardillo who, by the way, is also one of our Community Group leaders at our church. His heart to serve in a very conscious manner was exactly what God had planned for the Ahmed family at 234 Nevada, Ave.
His gentle touch had this family in tears of joy as they experienced the gospel at work in their home. They kept asking the team, “Why are you doing this?” Being of a Muslim background, they just could not understand why we were helping them and kept calling the teams that continued to come down, “angels.” Even the teens who volunteered saw their own hearts changing as they engaged themselves in the lives of the Ahmed children. The Ahmed children were begging the teens to come back down again and have stayed in contact with our teens to this day.
Another great plan that God has is the skilled people, who themselves, are not Christians that have joined our teams in serving. These skills are what have helped us complete several different goals. In just a few short weeks, not only have we rubbed shoulders with skilled unsaved volunteers, but I have seen volunteers who are in broken marriages, as well as those struggling with despair in their own personal lives, begin to heal through serving. Therefore even solid Christians are seeing first hand how God increases their faith.
I hope and pray this note encourages you as it has me.
We here in Marlton, NJ cannot wait to see what God has in store in the next five homes and how He will play the gospel out in them. Please be reminded that this is just a few of the many miracles that God has performed in our lives while going through this journey.
Serving the Risen Savior,
Otto Lubrich, Jr.
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