The Hopi Project

How do you change the world? One person at a time. There are many Hopi people here on the reservation without running water, inside toilets, and electricity. It is easy to look around and be discouraged. It’s easy to see why alcoholism, depression and suicide are rampant. The size of the want is overwhelming. It is easy to shake your head and pass by on the other side. Inability to help all must not prevent helping one.
The Hopi Project is an effort to provide a single Hopi family with a roof and running water. The ultimate expectation is for a new or used single wide mobile home. It is not about solving everyone’s problems. It is not even about helping everyone. It is about helping one. It is done in hope that one will become two and two become four. The Naha family did not ask us for help. They hoped and prayed for something better. God heard and sent an answer; just as He did when reclaiming them from alcoholism, drugs and violence. God spiritually and emotionally lifted them. God has broken the cycle of chains on the next generation. Now, we hope to add some physical comfort.
True----God could give this family a home that doesn’t leak and has indoor plumbing without our help. God can do anything. God has chosen to invite you and me to share in the working of a blessing.
Why should we care? What’s in it for you and me? Nothing less than divine adoption.
“ And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? If ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye?  And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? ...do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest...”
You can help. You can donate to the project on Blogger or on my website www.jacklafountain.com . You may give a tax deductible donation by sending your help through the Altus Church of God (900 S. Park, Altus, Ok).
“Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.”