Mission teams hit the ground (softly- that is) a few days ago on the late evening of July 1st. Well, okay, it really turned into a couple of hours into the dawn of July 2nd by the time we got everyone settled in here. There are two groups, one from The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, and one from Crossgate Community Church in Hot Springs, Arkansas. I can truly say that sheer exhaustion in the Gospel is a joyful thing. It has been an incredible week: time in the Word each breakfast meal, digging trenches for much needed repairs of water lines in the orphanage, scraping and painting of 38 year-old orphan homes, Bible teaching by ladies for ladies, Bible school for 120+ orphans every afternoon, stories of God’s faithfulness over the years shared by Dorothy Davis, and ultimately the realization for us that this is, at least in part, why we are here. We are here because of the Gospel. We want to bless this community because God has blessed us and our debt is really to the world. We have this great salvation, and it is for sharing and not storing up. Each day it seems that God is giving opportunity for us and for the groups here to share, show, and teach the word, and to serve the world.
On our final night together, we had the chance to worship the Lord in the camp property up the mountain. It was pretty incredible to sing praises to our great God along with our friends, family, and with brothers and sisters in Christ from Arkansas, Alabama, and Ecuador by firelight in the middle of the Andes. Pray for me as I prepare to teach this Sunday through an interpreter to a Spanish speaking church here at the orphanage grounds.
Blessings,
Chris
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