Friday, July 4, 2008

First Minstry Day!

Happy fourth everyone! I appologize in advance for any typing mistakes, this keyboard is kinda funky. Look at all the fun symbols I can do: ñ, ¡, ¿, Ç, º, and ª. Anyway, today we went out to a poor part of Lima to work with a local church. We first saw their church, which was constructed out of plywood and about the size of my bedroom. Next, we followed the pastors from the church up to a concrete soccer field to wash hair and perform our drama.

During the hairwashing, the praise band from the church put on a little concert for us. Their passion for the Lord was so evident in how they were worshiping, even though we didn´t know what they were saying. Today we didn´t introduce too many people to Jesus, but we really encouraged and affirmed many people´s faith. The people from the church were so excited about getting the word out about their church it was humbling.

On a more serious note, we really need prayer on this trip. It seems like almost everything that could go wrong has, so we feel like Satan is trying to stop us. We´ve lost luggage, had sound systems conk out, and already have had sickness of people on my team. Please pray for God to protect us, and that we can continue to do his work.

In peace,
Hannah

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmm... very interesting... anyway, besides the bad stuff goin' down it sounds like an exciting adventure already! I hope circumstances turn out better soon.

Anonymous said...

Hi Hannah,

We are proud of you and praying for you and your team. I wonder if you have seen any evidence (damage) from the earthquake last year?

Dad

Anonymous said...

Nope, at least none that was attributed to the earthquake. Stuff is falling down here in normal conditions, and no one has said anything specific about it. I´ll ask one of the translators about it tomorrow and report back.