Day 3: The Local Church and The Old Mission

Day 3: March 2, Sunday

7:00 Breakfast and dishes
8:00 Devotional (Brad – Your Journey)
9:15 Leave for services at Casa de Oracion
12:45 Lunch at Villa Esperanza
2:30 Visit the Stephens, missionaries for many years
5:00 Diner and Dishes
6:00 Prepare for work day/pray
8:00 Snacks
9:00 Lights out

Sunday morning was my turn for the devotional. We decided this time just to sit on the patio between the houses. This provided some comic relief, as one of the dogs was gaging and coughing from time to time. Oh well, all part of the Journey…

• Are we creators...or created? Are we masters of our destiny, or products of our journey,
  Does God place the flowers around us, by accident? From a commercial:
  
  What is a journey? A journey is not a trip. It’s not a vacation. It’s a process. A Discovery It’s a process of self discovery A journey brings us face to face with ourselves A journey shows us not only the world, But how we fit in Does the person create the journey Or does the journey create the person? The journey is life itself. Where will Life take you?
  
• My favorite story is the one repeated in the lives of Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, David, and Christ (Heb 2:8). In bringing many sons to glory, it is fitting that God, for who and through whom everything exist should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering (Heb 5:18) He learned obedience from what he suffered.
  
• IN the story Hinds feet, Much Afraid is transformed into Grace and Glory. Pain and suffering are the guides. The enemies Anger, pride fear and self pity. Our destiny, your destiny is to 1) Love God…and 2) love others.
  
  1) Run cry out to the Shephard. The name of Jesus Yeshua gives us a new identity. The Lord saves, the Lord is a saving cry a Lament.
  
  2) Love others : Paul The thorn says 2Cor 12:9. My grace is sufficient for you, my power is made perfect in weakness. We have this reassure in jars of clay to show this all surpassing power of is from God not from us. Examples of the lives affecting/affected
  Bill O. --> DJ
  --> Jack Harris’ Father
  Nellie Mitch -->Dan
  Friend of Anita gave a Bible --> Anita
  Laura G. -->
  
• Where is life taking you?

That morning we went to worship at Casa de Oracion. A powerful expression of love and freedom from the local people in their hugs and their songs. One of the songs seemed to say…Everything that I say, everything that I do Its all about you Lord, all about you.

IN the afternoon we visited with Ruth and Steve Stephens, missionaries for over 50 years, to learn whatever they had to share. Their focus was on the fatherhood of God. How important it was to Know the Lord, Trust and Obey. As we get older, our choices grow more narrow over time, but God watches over us as His Children. Ruth said her favorite passage in the bible was Romans 8: “It begins with no condemnation, and ends with the Spirit interceding for us.”

That night the band came by, and we all sang to God together.

Gracias a Dios (“Thanks to God”)