Chocolate cake and Godfrey

Well I’d asked you to pray about Godfrey..here’s what happened and it involved chocolate cake – hurrah!  Our last full day in Belize was the 21^st birthday of Natalie on my team.  I prayed specifically that we would be able to get a cake for her at our final destination, San Ignacio before crossing the border to Guatemala.  So I went with the team cooks to the local market.  As we arrived I noticed a man, Bernard, selling chocolate cake from his bicycle basket. 

I asked him if he had a full cake left and when he said no I asked whether he could make one ready for the evening (you have to appreciate that in Latin America the English reserve has to go out the window!).  I brought a piece of the cake and when I tasted the heavenly cake I demanded  that he make a cake and said I was willing to pay the price.  After speaking to his wife on the phone he agreed that we could collect the cake within 2 hours.

When we got to his house (oh yes he found us on the street looking for his house so his guided us in!) we met his wife, Dana and 9 children.  Dana was getting ready to ice the cake and informed us that she gets up at 1am in the morning to make cakes and pies to sell in order to provide for her husband and 9 children (the eldest of whom is at university).  Actually Dana cooks and Bernard sells.  So we get a free piece of cake whilst waiting (much to the delight of my girl friends Caitlin, Rose and Liz) and Christian, one of the team leaders asks Bernard about the cost of renting a house for Godfrey.

It turns out that Bernard has a similar past to Godfrey, Bernard’s brother has properties for rent and that Dana goes to a local church.  So my prayers for chocolate cake and our prayers for Godfrey get answered all because of a divine appointment at the market.  If I didn’t think that God was interested in the small things before, I do now!  It was amazing to see God at work and how He used me and I feel so blessed by this whole episode.  As a team we are pretty sure that if God only sent us to Belize for Godfrey then that is fine by us!

We were all so excited that on the morning we left Belize that Godfrey had found somewhere to stay.  As a team we paid for one month’s rent up front and gave Godfrey a ‘home starter’ pack and the landlord said he will help Godfrey find a local church who can continue to support him.  This gives Godfrey sometime to find work and be able to pay his own rent and bills by the end of November.  Godfrey said as we parted that he had never met such a lovely group of people – I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house!