We just returned from a nice home visit with a new Christian family. After some time in the Word, and fellowship they shared delicious pupusas with us for dinner. Efrain and Maria Luisa have seven children. They share their home with two of their grown children and their families. Keep them in your prayers as they grow in their walk with Christ. Pastor Heber meets with this family on Thursday for Bible study using the Phillip Project.
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| Monday night at Antonio and Leonor's home |
On Monday night we went to Antonio and Leonor’s home. They have three daughters and one son-in-law. They are a new Christian family with three of them accepting Christ a week ago. Camilo meets with this family on Mondays for the Phillip Project Bible Study. Please keep this family in your prayers as they have been criticized for converting and have had fewer clients come buy at their little store they have in their house.
Stan Simpson, Bill Grimme and Bob Thimsen didn’t know what they were getting themselves into on Sunday afternoon as we left the town of Chalatenango and started to head up the mountain. “Who stole the road?” Stan asked as we bounced up and down in the car 20 km for about 45 minutes. The church service began a little after 5:00PM and instead of bringing the light to Ojos de Agua, our friends brought the darkness as the lights went out after the first 10 minutes of the service! But this was only a “temporary setback” (as my father would say), Camilo took out the acoustic guitar and accompanied Stan as he sang, “The Power of Your Love,” as the sun set behind the mountain. Stan and Cindy communicated God’s word with the light of flashlights and some members in the congregation used their cell phone lights to read their Bibles. Most of the community was in the dark, but as we arrived home after church they came back on. Let’s just say it was an interesting way to start off the week for the missionaries who have been to El Salvador many times since 1999. In all their trips to Ezel Church in Ciudad Delgado, this had never happened before.
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| Church service in El Tablón on Tuesday night |
On Tuesday afternoon we took our friends to the community of El Tablón on a hike to see petro glyphs that the ancient Pipil civilization had left behind. In the evening they participated in a church service that we hold on Tuesdays in the home of Martin and Francisca. This was a very encouraging time of fellowship and praise.
On Wednesday our friends were able to witness a wedding of a couple from our church. Genaro and Lola had been together for years but had never legally been married. In a beautiful ceremony including their four children, the couple exchanged vows before God, the congregation and many visiting friends from the community. Stan also participated in singing, “Shout to the Lord,” during the service.
We are grateful to our friends for helping us in the area of construction as well. In just a few days they built a much needed storage room, where construction tools, instruments and sound equipment will be stored. Along
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| Making concrete for the sidewalk on Thursday morning. |
with our church members they are also installing a sidewalk that is being laid around the outside of the building.
Tomorrow, we head to Nueva Concepción to our monthly Pastors and Leaders and Pastor’s wives’ meeting. We are planning on introducing our new friends with the Pastors that we work with in Chalatenango, take them to the river and in the afternoon to a town called La Palma.
On Saturday, construction work will continue and in the evening we have our youth group meeting and then plan on projecting a movie called, Saving God. Today we put up signs around the community advertising the event. Please pray that God touches lives through this activity!
On Sunday our friends are planning on helping us with Sunday School lessons in two different locations, and Bob is planning on preaching in the afternoon service.
We are so grateful for their visit, they have been very encouraging to not only the Pastoral team, but to the congregation as a whole.
