Sincelejo - COLOMBIA, March 17-31, 2010

God certainly works in mysterious ways. A Colombian brother from first Baptist Atlanta, Edgar, had invited me (Luis), many times aver the last three years, to go with him to evangelize his beloved people of Sincelejo, his wife's city. He said, "after all this years of turmoil, they are thirsty, and open, we need to go". So we did.

We flew to Cartagena, and from there took a four hour ride in a public bus to Sincelejo. Next morning we met pastor Ezequiel, from Iglesia Evangelica Bautista Bethesda (Bethesda Evangelical Baptist Church), our host church. From there, it was a nonstop two weeks of work and awesome blessings.
We did street evangelism almost every day, sometimes just brother Edgar and myself, other times with people from the church. We preached, taught, visited sick people, met with church pastors and leaders, did some training in personal evangelism, did a marriage retreat, but most of all, were there t encourage them. It was not what "we" did, but just been there for them. They said, "It is really amazing that God sent you from so far away to be with us this time. For me, It was probably the most beautiful humbling time I have had in many years.

I talked to Christians that have been persecuted, isolated, people that in some cases, had to run for their lives from they villages and towns. They are full of hope, trusting God, and willing to learn and be used by God. Every time we stopped somebody on the street, to share a tract and talked about Jesus, they listened, and gave us a smile, every time we knocked on a door, they invited us to come in and listened attentively. Pastors were open minded and willing to learn, even though many of them have been in ministry for long time. We just found a bunch of meek servants that love the Lord and love their people. They maid all they could to make us feel welcome, and THEY GOT IT.
Their vision, to reach their city for Christ, and to start new churches were there is not one. They did not ask for buildings, or money, or material things, they asked for training. They want us to help them to learn new ways, effective ways to share the Gospel, ways to be better leaders, better parents, better Christians..
Our commitment to them, to come, once a quarter, to do training and ministry alongside with them.
Please pray with us for this new endeavour, that God will give the wisdom, the strength, and the resources to do it.