I’m sorry that I’m just now posting this, but, I’ve been busy. Anyway….On Saturday, we had to switch hotels because there was a mix-up in the communications with Carol from the Guatemala Baptist Association, as to where we were supposed to stay. The first hotel said that they didn’t have enough beds for us for the whole week. So immediately after breakfast (consisting of scrambled eggs & bacon, fruit, milk, etc.) we were told that we needed to load up all of our suitcases again and move to another hotel (see my Flickr pictures). Once we checked in and picked out our beds in the hotel room (I roomed with Carolyn Warren and Belinda Jones) we loaded up the van again and Rudy drove us to the church in San Marcos.
As I walked into the church, I sat on the second pew from the front and no one else was sitting there.
David
Then all of a sudden, this one little boy, David (pronounced Daaveed), came up at sat right down beside me. Even though there was no one else sitting on the pew, he scrunched right next to me! He had the biggest brown eyes! He also had some modeling clay that he was playing with and he would show me what he was doing and I would say “muy bien” which meant “Very good!” The people here are very gracious and friendly and love to give you a big hug and a kiss on each cheek! They made you feel very loved.
In the morning, Larry preached and there were about six different churches represented in the church service at San Marcos. Larry taught them how to evangelize that morning. Then that afternoon we taught them how to do three puppet numbers. Then the church fed us some tamales, along with some other food! After lunch, we went to the park (named Parque Jose Ignacio Juarez) and saw over 30 salvations in one park! Then went to another park and set-up our puppet stage and did puppets & drama and saw more salvations! And did registration too!
Once we got to the 1st park (Parque Jose Ignacio Juarez), we took the puppet stage out along with the other bags and props for the block party. We each helped with setting up the puppet stage as this is where everything happens at each event. They have the puppet stage marked with A, B, C, etc. so that you can put A pipes into A pipes, B pipes into B pipes, etc. Once we got the stage set-up, several of us ladies started getting out the registration cards so that we could register each person that attended the block party. We had about six different categories: baby thru 11 years old (girl & boy), 12 years to 17 years (girl & boy), and 18 years and older (man & woman). The people from the church in San Marcos, along with our translator, helped us with registration. One thing that I found by doing this was that about 50% of the people could not write their name! This was especially true of the older women and some men. I would have to ask a young person who knew them to write their name down. So, once registration was complete then we started doing our puppets and skits.
Afterwards, Larry would give the invitation and we saw many raise their hands wanting us to pray for them and to ask Jesus to come into their hearts and lives.
Larry Wright bringing the message
When they would raise their hands, we would give them a decision card, a track (for them to keep) and a pencil so that they could write their name down for the church to follow-up with them later. Then the pastor would call out their names of the ones that he drew so that they could come and get a prize! These were the people who filled out a registration card at the beginning. Once the prizes were handed out, we took the puppet stage down and loaded up the van again.
Then we had dinner at the hotel and talked about the events of the day and what we were going to do tomorrow. We went to bed early that night so that we could get up early the next morning to do it all over again! We were so blessed today to see the Holy Spirit work in the lives of the people of Guatemala!
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