I have to kind of write this blog backwards because I'm just so excited to share what happened today. We have been planning as a group to visit Plaza de Armas (a square in the center) and so an out reach there for ages and ages, but each time we dont get permission, or we cant do it for some reason or another, but today we just decided we would go and pray that the police didnt mind! It was such an amazing time. We split into three groups mainly, there were two guys doing a mime pose, and next to them were questions, things like 'where is God in this?' for example when the mime showed suffering or pain. There were also people around the mimes and when others came to stop and look at what was going on they would start conversations with them about what they thought and their view on God. I heard there were some amazing conversations with Chileans, and I am so excited about that, from what i heard people were really interested in sharing their opinions. There were also some girls doing face painting for free for children, and the idea was that they talked with the parents and things whilst we had them trapped! This also went so so well, the girls barely got a rest for the three hours we were there! And then Jona and I were clowns and went around handing out sweets and tracks and invitations to our churches. The idea was that we would give them to children, but there was not so many children, and the ones that were there really were quite scared of us.. but the adults liked us the best. We had great fun playing with random people, and were both amazed at how easily people open up to clowns! Many people were very happy to recieve from us and felt very blessed, and they said that to see the joy we have was really great! God is so good. He really put exactly the right people in our way. There are so many stories I could share, but one man in particular I really want you to pray for, so I will share about what he told us.
His name is Juan- Carlos, and he was from Constitucion,he had lost his house, his job and everything, and had a wife and children there. He came to Santiago looking for help I think, but was robbed and so did not have money for a trip back to his home. I could tell he was feeling hopeless, and he was tired, and he was telling us that he felt lonely because he did not know anybody, my heart really broke for him. We had the opportunity to pray for him, and I invited him to come to my church. He saw the girls face painting and also spoke with them, and they went to buy food for him and his family and also decided that we could pay for him to get a new ticket home. He will be leaving tomorrow morning, so will not be at my church, but please please pray for him. In the conversation we were talking about how God can provide and God can take care of him, and I really pray that in this situation he can see how it was the love of God working through us. I would love you to pray for his salvation. In fact no, for him and his family and for their salvation. God still works miracles.
Oh also I have to tell you the response of another man after he received the flyer explaining who Jesus is. He immediately read the first page and looked so surprised and pointed at the verse and said that it is incredible, and asked if it was the truth? It was amazing that we could give him this flyer and tell him what the truth is. We are here in this capital city in a highly catholic country, but there are still many people who just do not know who Jesus was!
Please pray for all the people we had contact with this day, pray that the church invitation, the conversation we had, the flyer that might just be sitting in their pockets, pray that some day they will remember what happened and that it will not just get forgotten. Pray that God will continue to speak to these people.
Other than that, this month has been a normal month. Going to the Hogar de ninos, going to the street. Oh we also went to Mendoza again to renew our visas, which was not the most exciting trip (There is not loads to do in Mendoza) but still so incredible to drive through the Andes, they will never fail to take my breath away. But there was time to read, and to chill out in the park, and I got to spend a lot of time with God. It is so easy in the last part of our time here, to just make ourselves so busy busy, but God is still the most important part of it all, and so it was awesome to focus on that again.
We had another kind of difficult time on Monday at the hogar, but still I cannot be frustrated with them or annoyed, each time I see them i really see how much they need love. Argh, we have seen some of the women who work there treat some of the boys so badly recently, I do not want to say more than that, but please please pray. It really breaks my heart and it would break yours too if you could see. I am certain.
God is a good God, and even when I am feeling tired and unenthusiastic about something, when I pray to him and give him the time, he never fails to amaze me and lift me right up.
Woohoo.
:) Thanks everyone for reading. May you have an amazing amazing week and as my good friend Jona likes to say - I pray God will hug you each day!
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