12/01/2021 – Bonton farms: Take a 4 minute listen to an ongoing amazing God deliverance story: Transformation of an entire historically impoverished Dallas inner city neighborhood, beginning with a few vegetable plants on an abandoned city lot.
We volunteered amongst other brothers and sisters across the metro back in 2018 to work the couple acres within the neighborhood. A restaurant has been started next door to put the Bonton farms harvest on the table. You just can’t outgive God; we are just His messengers. We left that property at the end of a Saturday work day having received so much more than what we had contributed. The larger expanded acreage now outside the neighborhood employs many ex-cons. The last I heard, the recidivism rate is -0-. From my experience in prison ministry, anything even approaching that is unheard of.
Daron Babcock, the first of God’s workers on that city lot, was himself pulled out of hopelessness and drug addiction, from a position of what had been an American “success” story, certainly by the world’s standards. The downward spiral had begun when he and his two young children suddenly lost their beloved wife and mother to cancer.
Funny story: Nancy used to volunteer on fridays. She met Daron one morning, wearing a UT “Hook em Horns” old t-shirt. Daron walked up to her from a distance to let her know he did not appreciate her t-shirt, before introducing himself. haha It turns out that Daron was once a star wrestler with the OU Sooners. As with the entire Bonton community, just fun souls to be around.
This story needs to be replicated across rural America. Drug problems have infested themselves, bringing a hitherto unknown poverty, crime, and a loss of hope. (root cause: Global pagan Marxism, a familiar old tool of the Devil) We are about to be hit in this country with an economic disaster that we haven’t seen before, perhaps much worse than what my parents knew as small children growing up in the rural midwest during the “great depression”. Solution: Small community donated acreage plots with workers from the community working the land largely non-mechanized. Impossible? Yes, but our God delivers once again out of hopelessness, the remnant body of Christ can never be defeated.
Grab on and don’t let go! “Hope that is seen is not hope!” We need to disentangle ourselves from the Devil’s spin that we are worthless if we cannot come up with instant solutions to the despair that he created. It is the daily struggle in the midst of the Devil and his minions that gives glory to God… So, from a heavenly perspective, we should view it as an opportunity. (say what ?) Soli Deo Gloria!
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