A New Blogger

July 6, 2011

Note: I (Alison) took over this blog today because I wanted to blog!

This morning, we went to Kid's Club in Buenos Aires. We sang a few rousing rounds of worship songs, impressively all in Spanish this time, also allowing a few of the kids there to lead as well, and Carol (the church pastor's wife and teacher for Kid's Club) taught them the story of Abraham. One of our own students (Meredith) also shared their testimonies of God's work in their lives. The inside group worked on helping the students to draw and color pictures of both their family and their story, or of the Abraham story. The outside group played games out in the church yard, the same as what we had done on Monday. Things went smoothly and I believe that the kids learned from and enjoyed the lesson today.

When we returned, we were treated to yet another delicious Dominican lunch, and given further instruction for what we were to do that afternoon. The activity that was planned was called "Listen to the City", something that Darin had done previously at the high school mission trip to Seattle a couple of years ago. We were instructed to observe the city of Jarabacoa, and to see the people with God's eyes. It seems like it was a really incredible experience for our team and really taught us a lot about people—the most prominent lesson from this seemed to be that we needed to observe and see needs and pray for needs in our own cities. That evening, we went off to Buenos Aires once again to do door-to-door evangelism at places of Pastor Alex's choosing. When we had our pre-visiting discussion, Alex told us of a family that recently suffered a loss. So we spread the Gospel to the local homes and then met up at a service for the man who died at his mother's home. His mother was a Christian, and friends with Alex, and she wanted the group brought to share the Gospel with the family who was going through the typical 9 days of mourning. We performed the chair skit, Stanley and Colleen shared their testimonies, and an elder from the church preached an incredible message about God's love and desire for us to come to him. As a result, about five or six, including a youth we were familiar with, came to Christ. Amen! Please pray for the family as they mourn their loss and that God's peace will be with them, praise God for these new Christians ("the angels are having a party in Heaven!" as was stated by a few members of our team), and for continued support of both of these groups so they may grow closer to God in this time of difficulty and transition. Also, we are going to the beach tomorrow! Pray that God will be glorified even in our time of fun and relaxation!

--Alison