Tuesday, February 3, 2009

The Bakery

Making chocolate chip cookies today I began to realize that most people in this world have never had one, even oreos, Wow! what kind of deal is that?
I also began to think about how many people who eat chocolate chip cookies have never had mud on their floors or should I just say mud floors, or for that matter mud walls.
Even though these people are so different I find that the ones who have never had a chocolate chip cookie really don't care because they don't know what they are missing. They seem quite content without them.
I, however am planning to change that a little in my own neighborhood of mud floors and walls. My landlord used to run a bakery. He came to me last year with a proposal for a bakery in his yard, which is just in back of the girls house. 1,200 USD is all he needed. He is now in the building stage of it and we are working out some deals that he would help us with. He will help some of the children in HoB to learn business and some can work for him.
I taught some of my girls to bake bread last year and they make it twice a week for breakfast for both houses. They love it and it always turns out great.
I hope to introduce some sellable items for the community. I'm not sure still about chocolate chip cookies because I can't get the chips in Moz but there are many other things that will be fun to do.
The first time I met Heidi Baker before I went to Moz I told her I wanted to make a bakery to feed the orphans. She was excited about that. Funny how things come around. They kind of sneek up on you. My intentions were good I guess.
Somewhere in Proverbs is says Man makes his plans but God orders his steps.

3 comments:

  1. Having been to the House of Blessing, and lived with Teresa, Julia, Dauce and Mangueze, Lee and the others for a while, I can attest to the power of community that has been built there. Anyone reading this could do much worse than help support Lee in her endeavours to furnish these kids with chances in life [like the bakery] that they otherwise might not have got...
    Cheers
    Mark Thomas

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  2. Hi Lee! Oh, I'm thrilled that you got the blog up and running. I think this will lead to great things. I love you lots and I hope you are having fun squishing your new grandbaby :) I'll see you soon, friend

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  3. Your message is so encouraging to me. I love how the Lord works. It is just amazing.

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