We woke up bright and early again but this time we all had a lot more sleep. We
left the house at 6:30 for the hotel to round everyone up. Then we went to the
church building and had a hearty breakfast. David gave a brief devotional and
then we all went to our jobs. I took the construction crew to Turin and found
that there was a group there from Arizona doing VBS / medical mission there. Then
I went back to Ahuachapán to find the evangelism group. I didn’t know where
they were so I drove around for a bit and just happened to meet Hector driving
down the road. He rolled down his window and pointed me in the right direction.
When I got there we went from house to house until 10:00. This work was
intended to last until 11:45 but we had so many groups that the area was canvased
more quickly than expected. We were all still tired so we welcomed the
opportunity to rest and we fellowshipped until time for lunch. Della spent this
morning working with the ESL group in a school near the Ahuachapán church. After
lunch we had a meeting to discuss how to best proceed with our future work here
in El Salvador. The summary of the meeting is that Della and I will be scaling
back a bit on our responsibilities to focus on the language 100%. Then I
dropped mom off at the VBS and did a little last minute invitation passing for
the campaign tonight. At 3:30 I left to get the construction crew and met some
of the members of the Arizona group. Their leader said that he had been
organizing this effort for the past 12 years! We exchanged cards and then we went back for
dinner. We had a visitor that rode back with us that was on her way to Ataco.
Jim did the campaign and two people were baptized! Jim had spent some time
yesterday and today studying with one of them two and I do not have any information
on the other. We put up the chairs and took down the canopies and went back to
the church. We all watched the baptisms in the “baptismal pila”. A pila is a
sink thing that is commonly used here for washing clothes and dishes. Then we
went back to the hotel and spent some time visiting with the central group. Clifton
ventured out with the car with a couple of others for a grocery run. At 10:30
we received a call that Maria Olla, the lady that was planning to go to the
states, Edgardo’s mom, and several others had been in a serious truck accident.
We all earnestly beseeched God regarding this. We got home and finally to bed
at just past midnight.
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| VBS Day 2 |
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| Phil acting as Jesus |
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| Two new brothers in Christ |
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