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Yesterday we had another busy day in Guayaquil...
We began the day with a short time of reflection led by Peter Butchers, focussing on James 2:14-25, a passage which looks at the importance of faith
and deeds. We will begin each day with this reflection time, a really helpful way of focussing the group at the start of the day.
The rest of the morning was spend in Valle de la Flor, a slum area of Guayaquil, where a plot of land has been bought to build a new church on. The land, as you can see from the pictures badly needed to be cleared, so we popped into the local HiperMarket, bought a few large machetes and got down to some good old manual labour. If ever the expression "Many hands make light work" was true, it was then!! We finished the work in a matter of hours, even having time to burn the waste and smaple some of the local delicacies... deep fried banana and some crazy homemade fruit juice!
The afternoon was spent in preparation for the evening meeting that we led in the missiones in Bastion Popular, another daughter church of the church El Jordan which we visited and introduced ourselves at on Sunday night. We led worship with Miguel (Mike) on the guitar and the rest of us on vocals, singing Spanish praise songs! Lidia helped us introduce ourselves in Spanish and translated for us when our Spanish ran out! Richard gave a brief testimony in Spanish and then the group presented the story of the Good Samaritan through the medium of mime!! Wendy and Miguel then gave some teaching on what it means to love your neighbour from Luke 10:25-37.
All in all the evening went very well and we were so thankful to God for guiding us at all times. There was even the opportunity to pray for some of the local people who were ill and we´re trusting God that he´ll do amazing things in that community by His Spirit.
Today we will be buying paint for the church in Los Vergeles which has roughly 300metres squared of unpainted walls - guess what next weeks task will be for the group...!! And tonight we will be leading the meeting in Valle de la Flor where we cleared the land yesterday.
Again your prayer are and will be much appreciated for all that we´re doing here.
Dios os bendiga,
The Team xx
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sheena
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Well done!
Glad to hear all going well and your hard work and church visits are proceeding as expected.Pray you all keep well and the painting is succesfull.