An Exciting Day of Worship

Group Gathered With the Children.

One of the greatest experiences in another country is worshiping the Lord among a different culture. This past Sunday marked our sixth worship service in Santa Rosa el Rodeo and it was another memorable day. Due to some extremely hard work on Saturday, we were able to have church inside the walls. The service was amazing and extremely hot without a roof.

There was a huge response from the village and the people filled up the service for the second straight week. I know that numbers don’t matter, but I think that the seventy plus people represented the way that the group ministered in the name of Jesus Christ. There were people that attended worship  directly because of our group loving on them during the week.

Personally, my favorite part of the service is singing and hearing others lift praises up to the Lord. Jennifer invited the children from the village to sing during the service. One of my favorite times each day is to here these precious children shout and sing praises to Jesus. I will usually stop if I am working and just listen to the sweet praises being lifted to our King.

View of Worship Within the Walls.

The service included Brother Tony and Brother Stan encouraging and preaching to those gathered. Max asked me to preach the longer Sermon. Once again, I had the privilege to prepare to proclaim God’s word in another language. I spoke from John 17:20-26. The message was intended to build upon the last three Sermons that I preached. The prior messages have been about the gospel, true salvation, and discipleship. The message that I preached on Sunday was about focusing on our lives in Jesus Christ. We looked at the prayer that Jesus lifted up for the future believers and the call to be unified, display his glory (message of the Gospel) and have his love in us.

Reuben and Others Gathered for Lunch After Service.

Many exciting things took place during this Sunday. For starters, six women volunteered to work with the children in the church in the future. Also, Reuben was being used to translate English into Spanish for Bro. Tony. Before he translated, he proclaimed to the people gathered that he was not a special man and struggled with four main things in his past. However, he declared that in that place, God changed him by grace. It was exciting to hear this man proclaim that God has changed him. After the service we provide lunch for everyone gathered. It was amazing to see them have full bowls of food after hearing the word of God. Thankfully, the exciting part of the worship was individuals being reconciled to God. There were four people that were saved during the service. Max’s daughter showed me a list after service, and nine people have become Christians since the first week of worship. Seeing people reconciled is the reason that this church is being planted and built in Santa Rosa el Rodeo. A building is being built in this village, but more importantly a church body is being established among these people.