Monday, January 14, 2008

Buenos Dias! Argentina Day 4

Hey All,

Today marks day four in our travels to Pilar Argentina! We have had a busy four days, and the weather continues to get hotter and hotter everyday. On Sunday, our Eagle Naz team was able to join with a few other team members from other churches and head over to our sister church in Sourdeaux to work on the church plant that Eagle Naz helped fund. What an amazing experience! We were able to prepare the grounds that the church is going to be built on by digging up dirt and preparing it for concrete. Talk about sweat! But what a blessing to be able to be invested in something that will affect the community of Sordeaux for hopefully many years! We were also able to meet a family that is a part of the Sourdeaux church that has 10 children ranging from 7 months to 22 years old....And they all love the Lord in such a way that is hard to describe in words - because they have so little and still give so much of themselves. There was a team that was able to return today to do more work on the church and also re-roof this family's home, along with adding tile, and a new beam that had rotted. On Sunday night, we didn't show the Jesus film like I thought we were going to, rather we showed a film that gave the testimony of a guy named Felix, that used to be a drug warlord for the Columbia Cartel. His testimony told of him spending majority of his life torturing and killing people, then of him getting caught when he moved to Miami, FL when he started selling drugs. He met his wife while in prison - and married while he was still in prison. She was a Christian, and prayed for him for 7 years to come to the Lord, and when he did his testimony has made such an impact that he has led multitudes of people to Christ. The reason we showed this particular film, was to promote him coming to the area and speaking next Sunday to the Argentina community. Okay - it's getting late, but we would covet your prayers for safety and health as the temp continues to rise and everyone is working so hard we are so excited to see how the Lord will continue to move over the next week and a half!
Jerry and Randy getting ready to work hard!
The Sourdeaux construction site


Pastor Annibal of the Sourdeaux church giving a sermon
The little 7 month old baby of the family with 10 kids - what a cutie!

2 comments:

Debbie Brown said...

Praise God for all that is going on over there! May you (and everyone there) be blessed because of the sacrifices being made. I'm praying for you.. for love, patience, strength and health!

Amanda said...

Thanks for the update! What a special gift God has given you, to be apart of all that is happening there-