Event on Friday

We woke up to a beautiful day on Friday. The weather continued to be fair all day, just as we prayed. I actually got up at 4:00 am to start the slow cooker, but I went back to bed until 6:00. The guest speaker and his wife, and the two workers for Christ for the City spent the night here on Thursday. After breakfast, John took them on a tour of the Hacienda. I stayed to get lunch ready. The director of Christ for the City, his wife and the clown arrived at around eleven. After lunch we loaded the equipment, food, table clothes, paper plates, etc. and all of us in three vehicles and left for town. It always takes us about an hour to set up. The electricity is always a challenge. We had to use three extensions above the beans to connect to UPS surge protectors; then we connect all the equipment, including the 24 cup coffee maker to that.
See the picture on the left.

We had a craft for the women while the clown entertained the children. He is just incredible. I think we had around 80 children. They just had a ball. When I was ready to tell the Bible story to the women (The woman at the well), he also told the children a story. We had about 25 women because it was Friday afternoon, and some of them were still at work. We had to do the event on Friday this time because our guest speaker is a TV announcer, and he calls soccer games on Sundays. He had to be back home by Saturday afternoon.

After these activities we had a two hour break. This time we ate dinner in a little restaurant in town because we did not want to dismantle the equipment and start again. John stayed behind to guard everything. The evening event started at 7:00. We had some songs and a contest to see who would best imitate our speaker calling a goal. The clown led the competition. He called it "The Sweet Taste of Goal." It was a lot of fun. Our speaker, of course, was the judge. The prizes were soccer balls, but we did not announce the winners until after the talk.We also had printed some response papers, which we distributed during both events. Please pray that the local church will follow up. We had about 21 responses from the women in the afternoon, and about as many in the evening.

People in town were very impressed that a famous TV personality would visit their little town. Some did not believe that he would actually come. He gave his very powerful testimony about how he lost everything but found the Lord, and patiently posed for pictures afterwards. He also thanked the town while on the air during the game on Sunday.

We left all the response cards with the church members. It is our prayer that they will follow up. Please pray for the believers in town to come alongside these people who are seeking the Lord.

Until next time, from the beach ...