Caleb & Della: 8/26/14: Day 177: 6 Births!

At 1:00 AM little Briana was born, daughter of our teammates Carlos and Linda. Lucky and I went to the church building and we met the BICA group. They were singing and then gave a short devotional. Then each stood and gave their name and dream. After they finished it was our turn to introduce ourselves and I said my dream is to speak Spanish. Then half the group walked with Lucky and I and the other half rode in the van to Triunfo. We split into teams and I was put with the only one who knew a little English. My partner, also named Carlos, and I proceeded to start knocking on doors and talking to people on the street. Carlos knew his bible well and was full of passion. BICA is a preaching school in Guatemala that is here to grow the church purely through door knocking and nightly campaigns. BICA apparently came last year about this time and some of the current members of the Ataco church were contacted then. From 9:00 AM to 11:30 Carlos and I (mainly Carlos) talked at length with three people. Then Lucky, Della, and I went to Ahuachapán to visit Carlos and Linda. We stopped and got lunch on the way and brought it to them but sadly we were unable to see the baby at that time. Public hospitals here are difficult; commonly you can’t even meet your own baby for 12+ hours after birth and only one visitor is allowed in at a time with you as their escort. The birth went well for little Briana and they will be released from the hospital at noon tomorrow. Then we went back to the house and I had to work on making a copy of some of the ESL material before I could rejoin the group. While I was working Javier came over and I helped him get a Shakespeare play in Spanish printed off the web. At 4:00 Lucky and I rejoined the BICA group. I was told that they had had two baptisms in the afternoon from contacts made in the morning. I stood in on another study that Carlos (from BICA) was having. Then the campaign started and lasted until 7:00. When the campaign ended three more people said they wanted to be baptized! Two of which were in a family that was first contacted by Lucky months ago and they been attending activities of the church now for a long time. Praise God that he is at work adding to our family! Then we took down the canopies and went back to the church building to eat pupusas for dinner. Samuel then spent the night with us. So today there was one physical birth and five spiritual births!