Back to School

Hey peeps. Today was really good. This photo is actually from our first full day here, but I really wanted to post it for you. This is Cesar and me on the top of Monserrate. Cesar is one of our interpreters and we grew very close to him that first day. I'm praying that he will come back and hang out with us before the end of the week. He is seeking the truth, but he is not a believer. It's amazing to see how the Holy Spirit is working in his life.

Today we visited one of the major campuses in Bogotá and just prayer-walked the campus. That's why the title is "Back to School." Sharon is a journeyman here in Bogotá (a journeyman is young adult who serves on the mission field for two years), and she took us to the campus and led us around. I am very thankful for her service here.

This picture of all of us is from yesterday when we were on the Ciclovia (the road they closed down for bicycles, etc...I talked about it in yesterdays blog entry).

I am also posting a picture of some interesting fruit that Sharon encouraged me to try. It is called granadilla. It has a harder shell but looks like an orange. You push your thumb into the top of it and crack it open. Once your inside you see this caviar-looking stuff that you suck out. It's very slimy but is very sweet tasting. It's pretty good but is not my favorite fruit that they have down here (I love their fruits down here).

Yesterday I didn't get to post about our experience in southern Bogotá. We were able to visit a church in a very poor area of the city. We prayer-walked the neighborhood and were able to talk to a few people in the neighborhood. I was able to get my testimony translated before we left (which includes the gospel), and I gave away a few of them...God thing!! Pastor Jacob is the pastor of this poor Baptist Church, and he is an amazing light in this very dark part of town. The church needs a lot of work and a lot of prayer. The main thing that I want to tell you about this church is crazy, and there is no way for me to prepare you for it...so I'm just going to tell you. That church rents out it's sanctuary as a parking lot during the week to make some money for the church. Yes...it's true...the sanctuary!!

One of the things that Pastor Jacob does each week is ride his bike to five different "prayer points" around the city where he has built small prayer groups of about ten people who gather together and pray for their community. He rides ridiculous amounts to each of these points. The church is too small to pay him as paid staff and so he has family in the states who send him money for food each month. He is an inspiration to me.

This is a photo of Bobbie, Alex, Matt and me.