Again, this will be short, but I hope to blog at greater length this afternoon.
Yesterday we had 108 kids at VBS (up 28 from the day before). Got to see the kids do the puppet show today, which goes over really well with the kids.
During a break, Rod drove us over to an established church in another neighborhood. They have purchased a building and have enough room for the church to grow to 150 or 200. He also explained the plan to have a small evangelical churches in each of the little communities, rather than 1 big church. This allows people to walk to church and is easier to reproduce.
After VBS, Darrol and Kim took a few of us 60 or 70 miles south to the town where they actually live and minister...the town of Puebla. Puebla is in much better shape, economically and it showed right away. We got visit Kim and Darrol`s house. We sat in on one of Darrol`s martial arts classes. One of the main avenues of ministry here is to provide free things like Martial Arts Training, guitar lessons, english lessons, etc.... at the church and then to build relationships with people in the process and then share Christ with them and invite them to church. Even at our session today, I believe there were 3 new faces that Darroll didn`t know.
We then looked at the church in Puebla which has an average Sunday attendance of between 1200 and 1500. Very nice place. Very similar to an American church in many ways. I was impressed by a board showing the number of missionaries from this church - they are all over the world.
We went out for tacos afterwards and visited with the Youth Pastor from Darrol and Kim`s church - David. Very nice guy. We talked about issues surrounding programs and discipleship.
By the time we returned home it was almost 11:00.
More later
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