FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS!
We have a new member of our team, the beautiful, talented, strong and amazing Lili! She will be with us for the last two months of o
ur journey and man are we blessed to have her for so many reasons.
She’s quite incredible and has been an amazing breath of fresh air for our team. She is insightful, and full of life. She clearly operates out of the Spirit everyday. She speaks fluent Spanish and has never complained about her constant translating-quite the opposite, she has embraced it as a unifying form of ministry.
The month started off rocky, from an unfinished/unorganized schedule that left our leaders drained, to bad attitudes all around, to struggles with entitlement and attacks on faith.
One of the main things the Lord has taught me or forced me to do on this race is bring all my problems or stuggles into the light. It never fails, I’ll be thinking about something or struggling with believing the countless lies the enemy throws at me, and I pray about it, but when I bring it to my team, the Lord steps in and really de-burdens me from the issue and allows me to move on feeling more fulfilled, whole and peaceful. Community is hard but huge for growth and challenge in being more Christ-like.
I really don’t like to be seen or have people get to close to the real issues, because it’s risky. My family, a few friends, and world racers are the few I’ve let in. And although I felt unsafe in the beginning with world racers and being open posed challenge; I now find it normal to bear my soul to anyone of htem that asks for my story.
I recently gave Jeremiah my story while sitting in a Puperseria, on the streets of El Salvador. These are the moments again where we look around and realize it’s truly crazy where we are and what we’re doing and whats even crazier is the reason we are doing it.
Christ wishes to partner with us, He sees us as equal to do that-that thought in itself is crazy and truly mind boggling. I’ve also recently been amazed at the fact that when I pray, He’s listening-The God of the universe is listening to me and loves our time together. So simple, something we hear our whole life at church, but I’ve really been digesting that lately and trying to figure out where to go from that deeper revelation on a subject I’ve known since I was a child.
God is so good, another fact I’ve always known but yet, I can learn more from that statement almost everytime I think about how good He is. Not for what He does for me (which is a lot) but truly because He is just GOOD!
El Salvador=feeling re-energized. It’s been a good month considering the rocky beginning but it’s going by way to fast.
We are mostly preaching, sharing testimonies, talking at schools, doing devotions, skits, songs, and some relationship building with the 
Genesis Kids-a group of kids from a poor neighborhood that church sponsors to go to school, get clothes, food and transportation for school. We were able to visit their homes, meet their families, and learn about some of their stories.
We’ve also been working with an organization called Pan Y Chocolate (bread and chocolate) that distributes food to the homeless, people in jail, and visits the hospitals.
I met a woman named Mariah who has been on my heart, a man named Oscar who probably does not remember me and a man named Jose.
He had a hurt foot, was trying to find work in the US but was deported from Mexico before he even reached the US. He’s been receiving medical treatment, but my thoughts are he is too prideful to return to his family without a job, money or prospects for work. He has young children and older children, one of them 23. Just a wee bit younger than me. He wants to see his family, but does nto have a way to care for them right now. And he’s taking all the burdens upon himself…
So he’s living on the streets. We had a long conversation and an emotional prayer. He allowed me to sit on his bed, which was a cardboard sheet. This is the man’s bed, and I was HONORED to be offered to sit on it. He did not want Lili or I to sit on the ground.
We’re working with three separate churches and trying our best to form relationships among them to unite the churches in this city to form one body instead of working for their personal church, working for THE CHURCH.
Ephesians 1:4-For He chose us in Him before creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight.
