November 28th

Today was a good day. We got to spend almost all morning preparing for that evening’s outreach. We were going to be heading to the church that had lent us their bus and driver (Fermin) for transportation. When we finally headed out at about 1:30ish we dropped most of the group off at the church to pass out flyers to invite those on the streets and driving to the church that evening. About five people went to go shopping for groceries and two of us, and Fermin went to the mall to get online. By the time everyone was at the church helping out, we had about an hour and a half before church started that night. So, we got more flyers and started passing them out just down the street. There was a group of three or four to a corner. It was so much fun. Tanto and I went out into the street and totally had a blast passing out flyers to the people in the cars and many of the groups on the corners did the exact same thing. It was a once in a lifetime experience, because you cannot just walk into traffic to hand a flyer to the driver in California. People would think you are nuts. J Anyways, when we had passed out all the flyers we had left, we went back up to the church. Dan and I started a sort of soccer game with some of the kids. It was a lot of fun. I happened to wear a long skirt, so I was playing soccer trying not to trip and fall, or step on my skirt. The kids were adorable and had fun playing soccer. When church started the kids went into the back to play with the clowns and watch the Sin Chair skit and the adults and few teens that were there went out front to have a time of worship and teaching. Their worship team got up and lead an amazing time of worship. I realized during that time that no matter what language is being sung during worship songs, the believer knows and can worship God through their songs, even if they can’t completely understand what they are saying. Right after the worship finished, the drama team performed Fix You for the first time. It was intense and the drama affected several people as I was told by several of our team members. It was exciting. Then Michelle got up and gave her testimony. She did phenomenal job. She told me that she didn’t even remember what you said, but it touched the hearts of many people, and several women came up to her afterwards to thank her for sharing and gave her hugs. In El Salvador, the people don’t usually hug each other, so it was a rare display of thanks or care. I believe Michelle was really touched by the women who came to her. We had our worship team get up after Michelle and do a couple songs in Spanish. They sounded so good, it was definitely their best performance in Spanish. Then Greg got up and shared a message with everyone with a translator. He kind of got thrown into the role about a half hour before everything started, which I found out that night during devos. The whole day was wonderful. Everyone was on a high like no other day. The atmosphere was so excited and happy when we got home. And there was an endless amount of joy in everyone’s hearts and words from their mouths. God certainly is amazing and he is knitting our group into a family. Whit got sick today and stayed home, but we got to share with him everything that we did at the outreach when we got back. I think it was good for him to stay home, because he really didn’t feel well. And he prayed for us during our outreach, which was a blessing in itself. We missed him, but God still used it. God is an awesome God.