CHURCH: This morning, we started with church at the host church and it was awesome. It was a 2 hour long service, but it flew by. Herb spoke at the second service of the host church and it was life changing for the congregation – many people made some decisions. The worship leader of the church said that his life was changed forever and that he had discovered his purpose for life! Wow! Herb again at the host church in the evening and blew the people away again – God is bringing massive illumination to the people at the host church through Herb. Also in the morning Kennon, JB and Danny taught at 4 different church plants in the area to speak. Danny went to Chalchuapa. I got the privilege to speak to their congregation. He spoke on Ephesians 2: We are God’s Workmanship! JB spoke (his first time to preach in church) and said it was incredible – the people responded powerfully. Kennon spoke on 1 Corinthians 5:20-21.
ARRIVAL: Jeremy made today and Steve’s luggage arrived today. Steve and Jeremy spent the entire dealing with the airport and traveling.
FOOD: Well, we’re getting a little taste of the El Salvador culture with the food. This morning we had breakfast here at the hotel restaurant. We had: Refried Beans, Rolls, Some Fruit, Eggs, Italian Sausage and Fried Bananas. Tonight we had Pizza Hut brought to the hotel!
THE CLINIC: the teaching team spent the afternoon setting up for medical and dental clinics in a place called “La Magdalena”. It is a very poor area where the dental and medical students will see roughly 1800 kids this week. We literally put poles into the ground, stretched long bamboo sticks across the poles, and strapped tarps to them to make little makeshift huts for the doctors and dentists to see people in.
THE PEOPLE: We met a handful of kids today, and that was exciting. The girls flock to Rachel and though Rachel cannot speak Spanish, her love for God is radiant and the girls just sit on her lap and play with her hair all day. They speak to her in Spanish, and Danny told them that Rachel doesn’t speak Spanish, but that doesn’t stop them. They love her. Kennon and Danny got the chance to walk a group of boys through the gospel. One kid had one one of those colored bracelets that is supposed to remind you of the process of salvation... well the boy didn’t know what it meant, but he was wearing it. They were surprisingly receptive to us just sitting down and teaching them. By then end, each boy in the group had a color that they knew what it meant: Black=Sin, Red=Blood of Jesus, White= white as snow, Blue= Water of Baptism, Green- Growing toward Christ, Yellow= Heaven. What a stupid, easy concept for us... we dismiss it so easily, yet this was EARTH-SHATTERING to these boys.
ARRIVAL: Jeremy made today and Steve’s luggage arrived today. Steve and Jeremy spent the entire dealing with the airport and traveling.
FOOD: Well, we’re getting a little taste of the El Salvador culture with the food. This morning we had breakfast here at the hotel restaurant. We had: Refried Beans, Rolls, Some Fruit, Eggs, Italian Sausage and Fried Bananas. Tonight we had Pizza Hut brought to the hotel!
THE CLINIC: the teaching team spent the afternoon setting up for medical and dental clinics in a place called “La Magdalena”. It is a very poor area where the dental and medical students will see roughly 1800 kids this week. We literally put poles into the ground, stretched long bamboo sticks across the poles, and strapped tarps to them to make little makeshift huts for the doctors and dentists to see people in.
THE PEOPLE: We met a handful of kids today, and that was exciting. The girls flock to Rachel and though Rachel cannot speak Spanish, her love for God is radiant and the girls just sit on her lap and play with her hair all day. They speak to her in Spanish, and Danny told them that Rachel doesn’t speak Spanish, but that doesn’t stop them. They love her. Kennon and Danny got the chance to walk a group of boys through the gospel. One kid had one one of those colored bracelets that is supposed to remind you of the process of salvation... well the boy didn’t know what it meant, but he was wearing it. They were surprisingly receptive to us just sitting down and teaching them. By then end, each boy in the group had a color that they knew what it meant: Black=Sin, Red=Blood of Jesus, White= white as snow, Blue= Water of Baptism, Green- Growing toward Christ, Yellow= Heaven. What a stupid, easy concept for us... we dismiss it so easily, yet this was EARTH-SHATTERING to these boys.
