It’s always difficult to sum up a week full of surprises, visual evidences of God’s faithfulness and the mountain top experience that often comes with setting a week aside in life to focus solely on sharing the Good News of Jesus to others. I can no way begin to express all that I saw and learned, but this is my attempt.
One of our largest hurdles as the team that would be working in the villages was planning what we were actually going to do. We wanted to be faithful with the time and resources it was going to take to be there. As the our departure date came closer we realized that there was only so much we could do. The rest would have to be left in God’s capable hands. We prayed for God to work in ways that we would KNOW it was Him.
It should have been expected, but I was amazed by the way things came together. We were able to put a puppet show together for the children that went along with each message-filled craft! That puppet show must have been performed at least ten times that week at various villages. The songs we tentatively brought were sung in church, for kids and even at a nursing home. A devotional plan was left for one young man who expressed interest in learning more about the Bible. Christ was shared in a variety of ways. I felt so much joy at using the Spanish I had learned in Honduras to express love and interest in the lives of the Dominicans I met. It was almost as if I hadn't left Honduras.
I saw 6 young men give their lives to Christ at one of the baseball games that our team played. One of the gentlemen on our village team led 10 men to Christ at the medical clinic and we shared with many more. I will continue to pray for those who said they were not ready or willing, just as I pray for those I know here who say the same. One more amazing event: one of my roommates accepted Christ on the trip and was baptized on our last evening there!
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