 THE FOUNDATION OF MIRACLES
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Charity Anywhere In the summer of 2007 I traveled to Hermosillo, Mexico to rendezvous with a group of 15 scouts and 5 leaders from Utah. They told me the following story. They had 4 vehicles and one was pulling all their gear in a very long trailer. They had driven from Salt Lake City clear to the border taking two days. As they crossed the Mexican border the roads became a little bumpier and rough. Their destination was Hermosillo. Every thing was running fine until about 20 miles from Hermosillo they discovered they had a flat on the pickup pulling the trailer. They got out and started to fix the flat tire. One of scouts noticed that there was smoke coming out of the trailer. They quickly opened the trailer and discovered that one of the trailer tires had been rubbing against the wooden floor of the trailer. There was so much friction that it had burned a hole in the floor the size of a mans hand and was smoking. They immediately poured water on the smoking wood floor. They realized that if the flat tire had not occurred on the pickup at that moment that they would never had been able to stop the burning floor in the trailer. The trailer had 10 gallons of gas in it in plastic jugs. Another miracle where things happened at the right moment to overcome a potential disaster. The group realized that they had truly been blessed. Gordon Carter
Charity Anywhere had been working with Padre Jaime, an American Catholic priest in Tijuana, on building a school for disadvantaged children, called CANOA. We had completed the building and it was open for business. He found that the children had to be bused by the family to the school. All the students were in wheel chairs so a member of the family had to be with them. All of the families could not afford the bus fare for both. Hence, attendance was not consistent. Padre Jaime decided to try and build some apartments next to the school so the family and student could live next to the school. There was a building lot next to the school that was for sale at $13,500. The families got together and raised $3,500. They could not start building until the lot was paid for. I had attended an insurance training session in San Diego 6 months previous to buying the lot. At the training session I met the lady incharge of the charitable department of the insurance company. I mentioned the project in Tijuana and she was very interested. Just before Christmas, she called and told me that they would like to make a donation to Charity Anywhere and we could use it however we wanted. She said the donation would be for $10,000. I was stunned. We committed those funds to CANOA, for the land and apartments for the school. The construction was started at Christmas by our volunteers. Author 'Gordon Carter
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