Page 23 - Living Epistles

Days later we went with our friends to a lawyer and executed a "Quit Claim
Deed", legally giving away the condo, and the furniture to them and agreeing
on a date on which we would vacate.

The dreaded day came and the Lord had brought nothing. We only had credit
cards and were forced to use them, very much against our will. The fifty eight
boxes of personal belongings were placed in storage. We loaded our van with
the six of us and nine duffle bags and were sent out by our church. As
Abraham did,we went out without knowing where we were going.

Jesus first led us to the great revival in Pensacola, Florida, at the Brownsville
Assembly of God. There, we met some precious folks from Tuscaloosa,
Alabama who invited us to visit with them at their church where another
revival was taking place. We remember the preacher, getting up right into our
faces, screaming and prophesying "give it away, give it all away!"

During Jose's prayer time in the motel, God spoke to him two words, "New
Mexico." We felt that this was the Lord's final destination and continued to
travel west on I-20.

In Longview, Texas, while Jose was in prayer, the Lord narrowed down His
vocabulary to one word, "pueblo." To us, pueblo means a little town. We took
out the atlas of New Mexico and were floored to find almost twenty places that
had the name pueblo within it. Later on, we were to find out, that these were
the nineteen Pueblo Indian Nations of New Mexico. The Lord prompted us to
go to Santo Domingo Pueblo which sits smack between Albuquerque and
Santa Fe on I-25.

On May 3,1997,we drove into Albuquerque and the next day went up north to
Santo Domingo Pueblo, having no idea what we would encounter. A little
dusty and empty village, filled with adobe homes, met us. When we got out of
our van, our eyes spotted a precious little Native American lady selling jewelry.
As we greeted her, a lightning bolt from the heavens shot up and down
through our souls and our eyes were marvelously opened. A supernatural
heavenly love for Native Americans pierced our hearts, and in one split second
we knew that we, as white people, were called to serve them in the gospel. It
was "love at first sight!" We can honestly tell you that until that very moment
Mary and Jose had never had an inkling of a burden for Native American
people!