Worship Service on Wednesday Afternoon

After working on one of the houses mid week they stopped early to load up the materials from Kevin's home to prepare for Noel's home on Thursday.  The community was setting up church service on the porch of one of the members as the gentlemen were carrying the materials in to a storage area of her home.  She opened her home not only up for church service but a storage area for the building supplies.  Once again the generosity and hospitality of these beautiful people.

Pastor Carlos preached out of 1 John and in so many different places in 1 John.  The team was taken back how the church members did not know where 1 John was located.  This is a new church plant Pastor Carlos started back in March and there has been over fifty salvations up in this little mountian village.  Until March rolled around these folks did not know who Jesus Christ was and what He could do for their eternal home.  Pastor Carlos goes up there twice a week, Sunday afternoon and this is when his church family comes out to help him as they teach these people where the books of the bible are and on Wednesday afternoon when he goes by himself.  Because most of his home church people have jobs.  They worshipped the Lord for about an hour singing hymns, such as "How Great Thou Art" and "Victory in Jesus".  Pastor Carlos basically told them there is Heaven and Hell.  Which do you choose today?  You are not promised tomorrow and as he was preaching this, there was a man down the street where the team had gone that morning to pray over his life died during the worship service.

This changed the rest of the week for the team.  Mike, Meida, O'nil another gentleman and I rode into Choluteca to purchase a coffin.  While we were doing this, a member of the community and family member of our deceased Andres, age 78, turned his home into a funeral home where the wake would be held.  They had the viewing that evening.  Pastor Carlos went back to the campus to clean up and go pick up some of his disciples at the home church.  They went back out to the community for the wake.  Pastor Carlos arrived back to Monte de Horeb around 11 pm.  Pastor Carlos had worked all day on the home, preached an afternoon worship service and humbly returned back out there to the Cerro Maranon to attend and pray at the Wake.