Piedras Negras Mexico Day 2
By William Shaw:
Day TWO
It was pretty hard to get out of bed on Saturday, as we had all been almost paralyzed by the cold. But we overcome its temptation to just hide under all the blankets and pressed into what God had for us.
About mid-day we got to go to a mission that the church had established. It was a small church but it packed a pretty good crowd of children. Just as we had done on Friday night we taught the kids the word of God, using as our guide a word-less, picture-less, but color filled book. Both we and the children really enjoyed the time we had in interaction together. At the end of the service some of the girls did some face painting for the kids and the rest of us blew up balloons and made swords, turtles, and other fun little figures for them to play with. We also got to bless the pastors of the church—Alma and Jaime—by praying over them and their ministry. One of their prayer requests was that God would give them children of their own. We prayed in faith and feel confident that for our next visit, there will either be a baby on its way or one being carried in their arms.
Later that evening, we got to minister in the usual Saturday night service. We were tied to a 1½ hour service schedule where we compressed as much as we possibly could. Whitney and Shannon got to minister through song, Mr. Bob testified a great many truths, and then Jim preached his Scottish heart out. During the altar call, two people came to the front for salvation and a few more later came for prayer. Of the people who came up for prayer there was one young man in particular who had never been to the church before and it was awesome to see Holy Spirit minister to him.
Day TWO
It was pretty hard to get out of bed on Saturday, as we had all been almost paralyzed by the cold. But we overcome its temptation to just hide under all the blankets and pressed into what God had for us.
About mid-day we got to go to a mission that the church had established. It was a small church but it packed a pretty good crowd of children. Just as we had done on Friday night we taught the kids the word of God, using as our guide a word-less, picture-less, but color filled book. Both we and the children really enjoyed the time we had in interaction together. At the end of the service some of the girls did some face painting for the kids and the rest of us blew up balloons and made swords, turtles, and other fun little figures for them to play with. We also got to bless the pastors of the church—Alma and Jaime—by praying over them and their ministry. One of their prayer requests was that God would give them children of their own. We prayed in faith and feel confident that for our next visit, there will either be a baby on its way or one being carried in their arms.
Later that evening, we got to minister in the usual Saturday night service. We were tied to a 1½ hour service schedule where we compressed as much as we possibly could. Whitney and Shannon got to minister through song, Mr. Bob testified a great many truths, and then Jim preached his Scottish heart out. During the altar call, two people came to the front for salvation and a few more later came for prayer. Of the people who came up for prayer there was one young man in particular who had never been to the church before and it was awesome to see Holy Spirit minister to him.
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