This past Monday and Tuesday we had our second annual Couples Retreat for the church. It was the two main days for Carnival here so we decided to take advantage of the holiday and have the retreat. This year once again we had it outside of the city in a hotel conference center called Casa Campestre or Country Home and although it was in the country you can tell from the … [Read more...]
San Valentin
Here in Bolivia our equivalent to Valentines Day (San Valentin) is normally in September (Day of Love) but we decided to have a special date night at church this past Friday. The ladies of the church prepared a meal and we decorated the church with candles and of course hearts. We had close to 60 people come to the dinner with several visiting for the first time. We had a few … [Read more...]
The Results are In
This past Sunday it was time for everyone to bring back their little piggy bank houses where they have been saving money all month for our building project. I didn't know exactly what to expect or how the people were going to respond but we were trusting the Lord to bless. In the beginning there were only a few people that brought their houses but as the service continued more … [Read more...]
Our Jerusalem
At the beginning of this year we presented a plan to our church to reach out to our Jerusalem. Part of that plan is to give a gospel tract to fifty thousand people or roughly thirteen thousand homes around our church. We have calculated that there are around twenty one to twenty five homes per block so that would be fifty blocks every month or six hundred blocks in a year … [Read more...]
Outreach Projects
Our desire as a church is to reach out to the people of our community, our Jerusalem, with the gospel. One of the projects that we do is to have calendars printed for the year with the churches name and information on it. We had 1000 of them printed and have been passing them out door to door along with a gospel tract over the past few weeks. Most people are happy to receive … [Read more...]