God, once again, blessed us with many kids attending VBS. We had 17 new students today! A couple of the moms stayed with the kids during the day, so they were also able to hear the Bible story taught.
The ESL teams were also very blessed today. The ESL workshop class, a class that is teaching people how to teach English to others, still had more numbers than expected and even had one new student. The ESL class had two new students today, and we are very grateful for that.
The Construction team continues to work tirelessly on the church's building. It is incredible to see them working non-stop and to see the fruits of their labor come to harvest. They work past the pain, past the heat and thirst, and despite their tiredness. As Ivan Fernandez said in the devotion today, we are not just building a building, we are building for the Kingdom of Heaven.
We saw some of that labor come to fruition today at the Block Party. There ended up being a soccer tournament at the park we were setting up at, so the numbers we had planned for were greatly exceeded. I am not sure how many people were in attendance today, but we served over 450 hot dogs to those there. The kids absolutely loved the games we had set up and thoroughly enjoyed getting the "dulces." Seeing their sweet faces as they got the candy was so very precious.
At 8:00, Pastor Omar introduced the movie "Fireproof" to the crowd. We played the movie for those that wanted to watch it, and at the end, Pastor Omar gave an invitation. You could tell God was already wanting to move in the crowd because part way through the movie, a fight broke out between some soccer players. Satan was doing all he could to distract those God was wanting to witness to tonight. But satan did not succeed because God certainly moved in those that chose to stay to the end of the movie. I do not know numbers, but probably around 10 or 15 people came forward after the invitation. God is so good!!
Please continue to pray for our group. Tomorrow all four programs will continue, and we will also have another Block Party at the church tomorrow night.
Thank you very much for your continued prayer!
(Pictures from tonight's Block Party will be added as soon as possible.)
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