Miercoles (WEDNESDAY!)

On Wednesdays, I usually leave the mission base early to meet up with our pastor (Hermano Jesus) and head out to San Jose Cajaqualten. This village is one in which we built houses in 2006 and 2007, and now we return weekly to conduct a discipleship follow-up program. Every week, we visit with two or three families in their homes, talking with them, praying with them, and sharing a few verses of Scripture with them. Many in this village are very closed off to the Gospel, due to the war-torn history of the area and the strictness of their ruling committee, but it has truly been a blessing to see the spiritual hunger that is present in the lives of the ten or so families and young people that we have visited already. I know that God has great plans for this village and that He is going to use these families and teenagers and to begin a small devotional service that will soon blossom into a community church! Below are a few before/after pictures of a few families that we ministered to in the past while building houses for them and that we are now ministering to again by spending some time encouraging them spiritually, physically, emotionally and mentally in their new homes!


















After our time is up in Cajaqualten, we begin making our way back to the mission base. As we make our way down the dirt road leading to the mission base, we take the first left down this tiny path into the village of Santa Isabel. In this small village, ten houses were built with the first three ministry teams that came to serve with us this past summer. Here, the system is a little bit different than in Cajaqualten as we visit with only one family every week inside of their new succulent spring salmon stucco house. As we arrive, we first share in a small lunch that one family has graciously prepared for us. Then, we share in a time of prayer and worship together, ending with a brief message by Hermano Jesus and the opportunity to minister to the family with medications if they are ill physically. I have only had the opportunity to just begin building relationships with the individuals in this village, but I have already been blessed by many of them in this short period of time.