Thirty Five Year Member

The team was busy at work as I sat back taking my pictures and taking in the morning activities.  I looked over to the side road behind the church as I watched an older gentleman come around the corner.  He walked up to the front of the church and enter the construction site.  Pastor Carlos immediately stopped working and came over to this gentleman and introduced him to Mike, Joel, Rodd, Bob and team leader Derek,  This man was the first member of this Baptist Church up in Las Uvas.   I would feel honored to introduce Neives.  He shook everyone's hand and watched everyone busy at work on the next stage of his church family.  He has been up on this mountain is entire life and watched the church grow into 60 plus children and 40 adults.  He has watched generations come through this church of multiple families. As we got to the point of praying over the first block, Pastor Carlos asked Neives to join him and place his hand over the top of the first block .  What an honor for all of us to meet such a humble godly man of  this church and this community.

When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them. Acts 15:4