Its late and I am tired from playing Spades with other team members until late each night, but here are some things to catch you up on the last two days.
1. Yesterday I think we saw 150 people at the clinic and Gary recorded an announcement on his iPhone that was played over the preacher’s super loud car stereo system around the community.
2. After the announcement we had 250 people come through today. We had 5 baptisms today, which brings our total for the week to 9.
3. Last night I had preached on Paul’s conversion at Melanie and our nightly attendance had increased from about 15 on Monday to 60 last night.
4. We had about 60 again tonight and Gary preached on Peter overcoming failure and I led the youth class afterwards. We had some of the kids come up and be “human puppets.” They moved their mouths and I talked for them as they acted out stories. It was a riot and they loved it. Over 2/3 of the people at Melanie are kids who are really enjoying the nightly Crusades.
5. Joel has been doing a Crusade at Buxton, a somewhat dangerous community trying to start a new church. This week they have gone from 3 to 11 people each night and they are loving his lessons.
6. The United States is doing well in the Gold Cup. Meanwhile, Obama went to Brazil and received an autographed jersey from the Brazilian soccer team that just beat the United States in the Confederations Cup!
7. I got to spend time with my old friends Ronaldo and Joan, who both became special to me last year and who it was a real blessing to see again this year. Both have stayed involved in the church while we were away and have returned to the clinic this year and regularly attended the Crusades. This has been one of the highlights of my trip.
8. Lots of spades playing.
And the next update will be Friday night.
