In the picture from left to right are: Doris Johnson, Antoinette Kruger,
Jerry
Wait, Pastor Luis & Lucilla Llanas and granddaughter, Pastor Tom
Pickett,
Mollie Weatherman, Lance Tyree, Cody Perez, and Johnny Weatherman.
Fort Worth
Goes on Mission to Mexico
The Fort
Worth church
was invited to go on a mission by Pastor Mike Hilton of the Crossroads
Baptist
Church. We accepted that invitation and had 8 volunteers sign up
of
which six were adults and two were teens.
It took fourteen hours to get from Fort Worth to Saltillo, Codhuila
Mexico.
When we got there we were assigned to help with the Vacation Bible
School that
the Iglesia Pentecostes Lanaje Escogido church.
The first
night that we
were there we presented Pastor Luis a gift from the Fort Worth Church.
The next
day the children were organized in to a parade and we paraded through
the
neighborhood carrying the flag of Mexico, singing, making noise with
the
tambourine, and handing out balloons. This brought some of the kids
into the
parade and some more went to the church for the Vacation Bible School.
The theme
of the Bible
Study was that you can trust God. They used book of Daniel as the
example. When
Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego were captured in Babylon, they
refused
to eat the king's food and God took care of them then. Then again in
the lions
den and again in the fiery furnace.
Each day after Vacation Bible School lessons were complete would
then
teach the children English as a second language. I don't know who
learned the
most. Us, because they would tell us how to say the words in Spanish,
or the
children because we would tell them how to say the words in English.
But we all
had a great time learning.
At night we would have a revival and Pastor Tom would give the sermons
and have
an alter call after each sermon.
After
the last lesson of Vacation Bible School, they asked the
children if
they wanted to give their lives to Jesus. There were twenty two
children
eagerly wanting to gave their lives to Jesus and Pastor Luis let
us have
the privilege of laying hands on the new Christians and praying for
them.
One night while we were there Pastor Luis took us up on a
hill and we
prayed for the city.
Our host was very grateful that we had come to their church. He told us
that
they have received money from the United States before, but this is the
first
time that some people also came down to help them. They transported us,
fed us
lunch and dinner everyday.
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