Bogota Campaign Highlights

We flew to Bogota, Colombia, on Saturday evening, June 17.  We checked in to the hotel and met the team of six from Copper Springs church, Fresno, and Steve and Pam Kern. We worked with them on Sunday and Monday.  The team of six from Abundant Life, Lee's Summit, Missouri, arrived late Monday evening and began working with us on Tuesday morning.

As usual, we loved seeing our friends at church and worshipping with the Guadron and Hernandez families.  After church we went to the Gran Estacion mall for lunch.  Instead of an evening campaign, we went to the park in Usaquen, a tourist area about 25 minutes from the church.  We were able to share one-on-one until it began to rain.

Monday was a holiday in Colombia, so we went to Parque Bolivar and shared the gospel with people all over the park. 

Highlights of Family Campaign--June 2017, Part 3

We spent Monday morning sharing at a public school in San Salvador.  Tuesday morning we went to a public vocational school in Apopa and shared in two different classes.  The lesson we taught was "Redeeming the Time," which came from the life of Samson.  The director of the school was so happy with the presentation that she invited us to return on Wednesday morning to share the lesson with the 7-8th grade students.  Since the school originally scheduled on Wednesday had not confirmed our visit, we were happy to return to the school in Apopa.

Thursday morning we went to the central park in Santa Tecla and shared one-on-one.  Obviously, the parks are quite a different environment from the schools, so the parents had to keep a close eye on their kids.  I was privileged to translate for the Batton family and both of their children.  Adam shared the gospel using his soccer ball and Ana, aged 6, shared the gospel with the evangel cube.  She was so matter-of-fact with her presentation, "This part of the cube represents that you need to make a decision.  Do you want to reject Jesus and spend eternity in hell or do you want to accept Jesus and spend eternity with him in heaven."  As adults, we could do well to share the gospel like a child and not try to over complicate it.  

 

Friday morning we traveled to Aguilares and shared with a rural school.  Not only did the group share the lesson and gospel, they brought each child a new backpack filled with school supplies and at least 2-3 pieces of clothing.  The children were so excited--the smiles on their faces tell the story!

Highlights of Family Campaign--June 2017, Part 2

As I mentioned in my previous post, this is a very large group. On Sunday morning we asked Fellowship Bible to attend the 9:00 a.m. service and Christ Chapel Bible to attend the 11:30 a.m. service so they could all have receivers to hear the simultaneous translation of Pastor Steve's message into English.  

For the Sunday evening family festival we worked with Pastor Koky Lopez and our campus in Lourdes.  There is always a good crowd when we have a festival in Nuevo Lourdes.  The people were packed in to the small park.  There were 22 professions of faith and many good contacts.