On Monday Team B moved to a new location. We are now staying in Palenque not far from the main street. We are staying at a church in the front yard. Its actually quite amusing. I can only imagine what the locals think when they walk by the church that has probably about twenty tents set up outside. Who are these people? and what are they doing here? The Lord has blessed us being in this place, with this church. Team B has been divided into two teams. Teams Zeo and Agapatos are working with another church about 10 minutes away from where we are staying. Teams Revolution and Nessa will be working with El Olivo, where we are staying, for the next two weeks. The pastor has given us free reign with what we want to do. We will be having several services a week, a youth night, working with cell groups, and doing sports ministry.
I´ll be honest at first I wasn´t too excited about what we would be doing, I was actually really frustrated. It involves a lot of preaching, teaching, and testimony. All things that require getting up in front of people and speaking. If you know me you know that I strongly dislike speaking in public. I always get too nervous and freak out. I even passed out in my college speech class during a speech once. Yeah it´s that bad. So needless to say I wasn´t really feeling this type of ministry. I didn´t know if I would have to speak or not but just the possibility was frigthening to me. Although I know that I need to step out of my comfort zone and that may require me to get up and speak at least once during the year, I didn´t think that we would be thrown into it so soon.
So I began praying that the Lord would take this frustration and fear away and to show me where he would have me during the next two weeks. Then it hit me, well I should say I got a holy slap. This isn´t about me and my fears. Its about the Lord speaking through me to these people. If it requires me to get up in front of people then the Holy Spirit will guide my tongue. I don´t need to shut my mouth and not share what the Lord has given me, which is what I´ve done in the past. He will lead and guide me. He frees me from my fears and I need to be open to that. Open to the ways that the Lord will use me to reach his people.
This blog started out as something completely different, I was just going to tell ya´ll what we would be doing and what we had already done, but once I started typing the Lord lead me in a different direction. so i will write more later about what all has been going on here. You can also read my teamates blogs or chad mast´s blog about many of the things that we are doing.
