Flying by the seat of our pants...

My pics may be a little out of order, but that's ok. All three of these were on Sunday. The top one is Carrie, handing out straight sugar to a little girl. By the end of the week Carrie was a celebrity to those kids. She was really good with them. She even gave out some toothbrushes to fight the tooth decay she had been promoting with her backpack full of candy.
The next one is Carrie, talking to the kids on Sunday morning. They do thing a little different. Kids church is in the morning, and they blast the songs over a loud speaker throughout the town to call kids to church. There was nothing for the adults, just kids.
The last one is me...preaching. I'm not kidding. As we walked in the door for church that night, Pastor Bernabe' said something to Priscila, and she turned to me and said "you are going to preach". I had about 1 minute to come up with something. It was amazing. God gave me the words to say, and got me through the whole thing. It was actually my first time really working with a translator, and we didn't have any trouble at all. Priscila did a great job, because nobody threw anything at me. I can hardly remember what I said, but I used the passage in Acts 8:26-40 about Phillip preaching to the eunuch. The focus was on two verses: So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?" And he said, "How can I, unless someone guides me?" And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him. The lesson was that the church people had to be like Phillip and take the time to teach the new converts so they would grow in their faith. The church memebers responded well. We had one of the best turnouts as far as church members coming out and working with us. And they are still doing it now that we are at home. We really got attached to those folks, and it did us good to see them invest themselves into eveangelism and discipleship in their community.