God Sighting, Anyone?

First of all, we want to apologize for not writing as much as we promised. If we wrote as much as we wanted to and as often as we were affected and as we were seeing God work, you’d wonder why we were on the internet and journaling so much when there’s work to be done! We hope that you’re enjoying our journey through pictures!

Wednesday night we enjoyed Dominican pizza before practicing for our special music. We sang “Mighty to Save” in Spanish with the praise team. Let me tell you a little bit about this praise team. It is made up young men from the youth group who come to church on their own. Almost all (if not all) come by on their own. They don’t come because their parents are forcing it on them. They don’t come because it’s the cool thing to do. They don’t come because it’s been part of their lives since before they can remember. They come because they love God and want to serve. How amazing is that? How many of you can honestly say that you would have come to church on your own as a teenager if it wasn’t already in your life? I don’t know if I could. They lead us as we sang. I sang my heart out as we joined together in voices, language and love for our Savior. (link to google video) I think, so far, this was one of my favorite and most treasured times.

Listening to the message was quite a workout for me! Think about how tired you’d be if you had to change what was said into another language before you could actually understand? No passive listening here! I loved trying to follow along with his preaching. I read the verse on the powerpoint before I looked it up in English. I was close on a lot of them.

Bible School-Day 2-What an amazing day. I am not sure of the count of Thursday, but there were at least 2 added to our total! Day 2 is great for so many reasons. We have connections to the kids from the day before-a free hug, a shared laugh or a high five-that makes today even better for all of us. Our relationships with our Dominican counterparts have deepened, which allows us to have more to talk about and more to laugh about. We know the songs better and can sing more freely from our hearts. Things run smoother because we’ve got the kinks out from the day before. The gospel that was planted on Day 1 is being watered on Day 2.

And that gospel—the same gospel that brought Abraham to know God, David to write his psalms to an everlasting God, and Saul to be changed to Paul and be a missionary to the world—sprouted today in the lives of 5 boys. God used Romano(on his birthday!) to harvest that seed. Romano has been discipled in the church and has been greatly encouraged to teach. This was the first time that he taught and God used him in his newness and in his humility to bring the gospel. The COOLEST thing is that there were 2 sets of brothers (one in each of the two classes) that accepted Christ! So, not only are there two new believers in each home, they made decisions without the other brother knowing/influencing what was going on!! *GOD SIGHTING*

 ~Abby