Wednesday, July 7, 2010

pastor tomasa's family and iris's dream


We had been visiting Tomasa’s home for a couple months, developing a friendship, stopping by to visit when we were close by. Finally we received a sponsor to build her family a home and we arrived to share the news. (you can read more about their family and see lots of pictures HERE.)

After sharing the news that we had received the funds to build her a new home, she shared something pretty amazing with us.

The night before, Tomasa’s 15 year old daughter Iris (pictured to the right) had a dream.

She dreamed that the town of Buena Vista was a dry desert land. Everything was dying. She said in her dream some Americans arrived and started walking through the town, planting seeds. They would come every day, visiting the people and planting seeds everywhere they went.

Soon things started to change. Grass began to appear where before there was none. Fruits and vegetables began to grow. “Giant vegetables, bigger than anyone had ever seen”, she said. Before long, Buena Vista was green again, and everyone was enjoying a healthy harvest.

Tomasa told us that she believed her daughter’s dream was a prophetic vision from God. She said that the Americans in her dream represent us – and the seeds we are planting are changing their village.

This was an emotional and humbling thing for us to hear. We have days where we feel like we are not even making a dent… we sometimes get frustrated that some of the people we think are changing actually are not, and we are consistently disappointed and let down.

But for us, Iris’ dream was a huge encouragement. God used this 15 year old girl to remind us that our job is the seed planting. We must trust that he will bring the water, and he will get the increase.


I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. 1 Cor 3:6-8