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.

Highlights of Family Campaign, June 2017

One of our favorite campaigns of the year is the "family trip."  Not surprisingly, the team is composed of whole families, moms and kids and/or dads and kids.  Christ Chapel Bible Church, Fort Worth, has filled the spots on the family trip for the last three or four years.  

This year, however, the family trip included Christ Chapel, who brought 32 people; Fellowship Bible Church, Russellville, Arkansas, who brought 24 people, and Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano, Texas, who brought 4 people.  Yes, you read that correctly, there were 60 people on the family trip and half of them were children between the ages of 6 and 17.  

The Arkansas group arrived about noon on Saturday so I road to the airport on the bus with Guillermo.  We wanted to be sure it was easy to find us so I stood outside the airport exit with a sign.  We loaded everyone on the bus and on the way back to town we stopped for lunch at Burger King.  With so many kids, the parents find it easier to eat in their rooms at night which makes a grocery store stop mandatory.  After picking up water and all kinds of snacks we made it to the hotel about 4:00 p.m. 

The two other groups were on the same flight out of Dallas, but their flight was delayed due to storms.  Instead of arriving at 5:30, they didn't land until 7:00 p.m.  It took over an hour for them to exit customs and immigration.  Guillermo drove the bus and Stephen and I drove our pickup to hold luggage.  Thankfully, they ate on the plane so we only had to make the grocery store stop before we took them to the hotel to check-in.