What a spectacular day of worship. We started off at Bruce Hepburn’s place in likely the poorest colony we ever visit. Our worship team led us in several songs followed by communion. We closed the service singing How Great Thou Art. The experience is both difficult to describe and equally difficult to exceed. After our worship service we drove to Alianza Church for lunch and worship with them. Many of our guys served as ushers and greeters, accompanied by translators from church. In speaking with one of the translators, I learned the church has a crew of about 35 young people who have trained to speak English (very well) to serve at times such as this. They will match up an translator with a group of 4-6 persons and it is their job to assure we have a clue what is going on. They do their jobs very well.
During the service at Alianza, we sing songs both in Spanish and English. At one point all of the Power Ministry group is invited onto the stage. We sing couple of more songs and share some testimonies. We then get back out with the remainder of the congregation and listen to the sermon. This year, one of our own, Bobby Biber preached at the church. Bobby did a great job. Bobby is from South Dakota.
After worship we have just a few minutes to say our good byes and then we get into the vans and begin the long trek back to San Antonio. I am writing this blog from the van, having just finished dinner, with about an hour and a half left to get into San Antonio.
This has been a great week. Tomorrow we meet at the hotel in San Antonio for our debriefing time. This is a time when we all get about 3 minutes to share a meaningful moment from this week. With all of the first year guys on the trip, debrief should be fun. After that, we say our good byes and begin to disperse to the airports to head home. The greatest challenge each of us will face when we get home is to keep alive the high we receive from a week like this and to continue to serve God in our home communities wherever God will allow.
And again I say, I can hardly wait to see what God is going to do next!