Bill Hebner

This week, and this summer I have had the privilege of being on the receiving end of a service project for a change.   Over 85 youth, college, and now adults have made the pilgrimage to Wales to serve in the new Middle Park camp.   At first clearing the site, then waiting on tables and cleaning toilets, and now building a new shower facility for the 2013 season, while cleaning up on a lot of needed projects in the Powis prayer house as well as the camp. Receiving a gift such as this can be well.... humbling.... actually quite unnerving.   We sign up to the Christian message in the words of Dietrich Bonhoffer, ‘I bid you come and die’, or in the words of Paul, ‘I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives within me’, and then we are off, to serve, to give, to sacrifice, to pour out our life blood as a fragrant offering to the most high God, bathed in love for Him, with others receiving the joy of our sacrifice.....BUT, what happens w

Sometimes things just work... Click for more We have recently received pictures from Valencia of the ‘packed out’ community/school building we completed in April 2012.   See the pictures in the photo gallery . Since the completion of the building:  Even more youth (477) are part of the. feeding program T he AIDS counseling program is in full swing  The gardens for grannies are ready for their first crop.      It humbles me that a group of unskilled youth made this place possible.   We are now looking forward to the 2013 rendition of the YMP project as we will be going back to Ebenezer care centre to add more beds for orphans.  Our plan this year is to finally broach the multi-story design we have for using shipping containers.  Our intent is to build a 2 story unit for 32 children.  Our support is up and the number of participants on the YMP trip exceed 150, so we will build a second floor on the structure.  This home will be supporting another very successful com

The work continues to expand...... We are completely amazed how certain elements of our lives ‘prosper’ daily while others seem to lay dormant for years and then explode like bamboo shoots.   But one thing that seems to be happening is that the work here is growing.   This is a good; it is and has been the dream since we committed to stay here 12 years ago.   To build a self standing incarnational mission in Wales, that would be run by the Welsh to carry the message of Jesus Christ into the future for the next generations of Welsh youth.   Our work has always been this goal, and will remain this goal.    However as the work expands, so too do the demands on my time, our resources and ‘life blood’.   Please continue to pray for the right help to come along that can support the national ministry.   That local funds would continue to grow to support the local staff, and that we would not grow tired in the day to day as we sense that the work is stabilizing... In Him, Bill