Seems the saga continues for Gilberth and Fanni Marin. We have been working with this family for about a year now...I've written about them from time to time. Precious family. They have 6 children at home, another lives with her grandmother. Satan has been after them ever since they got saved. I won't recount the series of problems they have had, but there have been plenty. Now another has arisen.
About the time we started going to have Bible study with them, they moved into a "house"...really a converted barn, that was adequate at best. Fanni made it a nice home. It's amazing how clean and neat a barn can be kept. Well, now the owner is going to sell the property (the same thing that happened to their last home) and they will have to move out. The barn/house will be torn down.
You may remember that they live in a small village on the mountain side. Gilberth owns and drives a taxi there and does fairly well, although he's had some setbacks lately due to a wreck one of his drivers had a couple of years ago. The other party had sued and the case was finally settled. He had to pay over $700...a huge sum for people on their income. Anyway...they just haven't been able to find a house of adequate size for their family.
Fanni's mother has some property that they could build a house on, but, of course they don't have money to do that. Gilberth says they could build a "shell" (I presume no plumbing or inside walls.) for around $1000 on that property. He could sell his taxi and use the money for the start of a house, but then...how does he make a living? Jobs are about as scarce as houses.
My plea to readers is that you pray for Gilberth and Fanni Marin. Pray that God will show His power and provide a solution for them...a house they can afford to rent or money to build, whatever He chooses...but they really need a boost in faith. They are struggling, relatively new Christians, and have tremendous potential for the Lord. The whole family is extremely bright and Gilberth is a gifted teacher of the Bible. I believe that if they just ever get stabilized, they could be an influence in the community and a group of believers would be raised up there.
