the first month

Circunvilacion
Where the cement meets its end, and vegetation crouches in close, ready to spill into each home, are warm, gentle, and inviting people that desire to converse about…anything you’ll let them. In November we began discipling 7 people and have hopes to begin discipling 4 others in the next week or two. Ana and I are meeting with a precious family (Froilan, Aniceta, and Rafael) that moments after accepting Christ (the first day that we shared with them the opportunity) told us of their family in Mavila (about 80 km North of here) that need to hear about Christ too. If we can get up there, they have a house that we can live in and an area where we could hold church services. We’re not sure what God has in mind for Mavila, but please be in prayer that we will be aware of God’s guidance.
As we were exploring more of this zone, we came upon a home with a cute little boy playing outside. We knocked at the door and a young slender woman in a towel came to the door. Rather than immediately going to get dressed she was ready to talk to us right then. She brought us chairs and asked us to sit down. At this time, I told her we’d wait if she wanted to get dressed. She laughed and dipped inside the door, joining us seconds later all dressed. It was too funny to me how she was willing to talk to about Jesus at that very moment. In the States, you’d never answer your door to strangers in a towel. Let alone get them seated before you went to get dressed.