One of our contacts in another of Ana and my communities has closed her store in the other community and is moving to her new home. When asked where she was going to live, she told us that her home is in Circunvilacion! Each group is searching for locations that we can use to hold our services...so Lucia is going to ask her husband (who is not yet a believer and is doesn’t know what to think of us) if we can use their home once or twice a week.
Lucia is our very first convert and we are seeing a lot of promise in her growth. She has promised to come to church on Sunday and to bring her 3 children.
Friday, December 18, 2009
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.
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.
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