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Stories from Lar Feliz The Purchase of the Farms Politicians, parents, and others may never listen to these children, but God always does. He listens to the cries of their hearts and answers their prayers. One time, we received three brothers of three different ages and three different shoe sizes. They came to Lar Feliz, as children often do, with barely any clothing and no shoes. At the time, we didn’t have any their size in our storage room. We also had no extra money on hand to buy any. Paul asked them to pray about it if God would provide for them the necessary shoes. That very day, someone from a nearby town pulled up in his car with a donation of used clothes and toys. In one of the bags he brought were three pairs of tennis shoes the exact sizes of what the three brothers needed. Many times after that, when we needed something, we would often pray together with the children for God to meet that need. We needed milk, God provided a cow. And we had the courage to pray for even greater needs. At one time in Lar Feliz we had the boys at a farm in Holambra where we rented, and we had the girls at a rented house in Cosmopolis. It was very straining for Paul to oversee each house and to drive back and forth. There was a piece of land next door to the farm, and one day we were out with the children and we prayed all together with our hands stretched out toward the land, that God would provide a way for the girls to be close by. Later that year, Paul and I had a personal friend visit us along with a couple, a surgeon and his wife from Cleveland, Ohio. They came to see our work and wanted to do something for God. We were not sure what that would mean. After a few days into the visit, the doctor told us that they wanted to purchase the farm on the other side of the vacant field so we could have the girls and boys near each other. Two years later, we were visited by another Doctor and his wife who were from Holland. They wanted to purchase the first farm for us where we had been renting for the boys. |