Greetings again from Bogota! Today was the beginning of the main reasons we are here in Colombia: Super Vacas/VBS and the Discipleship Conference. The morning began early, with us waking up around 5:30. We headed to the church after a hearty breakfast and began setting up. Around 9, children from 1-17 began trickling in.
We started things off with worship--which meant a lot of singing, shouting, dancing, and jumping. It was such a blessing to see the joy of these children and the adults volunteering. By the end of the first hour we had about 65 children there!
After worship, the children were split into three age groups and some went to hear a lesson on the armor of God, some went to crafts to work on armor, and the others went outside for activities.
It was a busy morning but so much fun for all of us. Those of us working in crafts were blessed tremendously by the women who did whatever it took to get the work done. They did it all without complaining and with smiles on their face--eager to help. God was gracious in giving us enough hands to get the work done.
Then, we went to Jorge & Ginny's for lunch. We had a delicious lunch and then had a few hours to rest & prepare for the discipleship conference.
The discipleship conference kicked off at 7 that night and Pepper taught (in Spanish!) on the Great Commission and Ben taught Profiles of a Disciple-Maker. There were about 80 men and women there and God gave Pepper and Ben (& his translator) much clarity. The most encouraging thing was that there were pastors and leaders from at least four local churches. Pray that the unity they have would continue and that they would take the principles they learned and put them into practice in their churches so that the whole city of Bogota would be impacted.
