Thursday afternoon

Thursday afternoon

This morning for our devotional time Dana led us in several beautiful songs and Sarah Liborio shared her testimony. Some of you know her and have heard this or you may have heard me share some of her testimony from my last DR trip. God is being glorified through her life as she shares her painful experience of losing her wonderful husband last December 22. Many of our Westmeade people knew her husband “Hugo” because he was full of life and full of Jesus. God brought those two together; a girl from Kansas and a boy from El Salvadore. She has a beautiful story about how God brought them together. They married and were serving as SCORE missionaries. They were home in Kansas after just having their second child when he died suddenly of a brain anerysm. They had a 2-yr old son and a newborn daughter. I can’t tell you the whold story but she shared about God’s faithfulness through all this. God has led her to write a book and she is working on that now.
Our mission project this morning was going to a village near the SCORE complex. A lady who has recently become a Christian owns an open air restaurant that needed painting. She had signs about “beer” that she wanted covered up because she no longer wanted to sell that in her café. It was originally red with these signs and we were painting turquoise so I wasn’t sure it would cover but God blessed and it covered beautifully with only two coats of paint. We did some trim work in cream. I will try to post some pictures but it really looked good when we finished.

She took us in the back of the café to an area where her home was. It was a simple house made of concrete blocks with curtains separating rooms and a tin roof. We met her special needs son (about 30 years old), Milton. We also met her mother. Tata and her son were Christians but her mother was not. Later several ladies went back and with an interpreter shared the gospel and the grandmother prayed to receive Christ. The gospel was also shared with a granddaughter who is pregnant at 14. She was interested but not ready to pray today.

We had actually divided into 2 groups and the other group went to a village to paint houses for a couple of ladies. I’m sure they had a good morning as well.

It has been a very enjoyable day. We came back to the Embassy for lunch and will be going out again shortly to a special needs orphanage. Dana has been there before and she says it is going to be really hard so please pray for us and especially for the orphans.

“All those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery…but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out Abba Father” The Spirit himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children, and if God’s children—also heirs of God, and co-heirs with Christ…” Rom. 8: 15-17