Ahhhhhhh So Amazing!

Day 8

Written by Hannah

Today I was woken up by a wonderfully cold shower quite early in the morning.

Funny how prayer resets your mind. We spent a while before the service in prayer and God was faithful in showing up in worship, the word, and in prayer afterwards as well. Josh gave the word about how the Kingdom of God advances one heart at a time. How good is our God?!

After a quick (but amazing) lunch we went out to the park for some evangelism. This also happened to be when we were to do the flash mob... That we were super duper prepared for. I mean, after three times through the moves the day before (with no refresher before mind you) we were  OBVIOUSLY ready for our performance. I got about half the moves on time but it was a great way to get the crowd gathered for the church to start evangelizing. This is the part that is stunning to watch: all the Colombians from the church grabbed one of us and went up to people and started asking questions about what they believe in and then they share the Gospel- ahhhhhhhh so amazing. It helped that today was a beautiful, sunny day and the park was full. Thank you for those who prayed for nicer weather today, it was a huge blessing.

The English class went very well, people showed up ready to learn and to participate. Caleb taught the kids the song Feliz Navidad, and they loved it. Kajsa and Cal were a dynamic duo who got every person excited to learn, which was also great.

Josh and Mark lead a workshop on parenting which went very well. There was some quality time of question and answers at the end.

Ok, so worship was a thing. I can't even begin to explain all the feelings and things that happened. God is so good. I can't say that enough. Let me try to paint a picture for you all. Everyone is tired. So very tired. The Colombian team is up on stage and getting all the instruments plugged in and ready to go. As soon as we are ready...BAM power is out. You know what they do? Worship louder. The whole church raised their voices when the sound was gone! Then...BAM Holy Spirit fell so heavily. 

I was brought to my knees in uncontrollable tears. 

As the whole church is singing "how great is our God" the power comes back on and stays on until right after our team steps off the stage. Before we got off though let me set up another picture. We are ending the set and Julie comes up and thanks us and prays for us. Ending one. Then says we need to play another song so we play "I am free". Ending two. Then Cal decided to start the song again from the top. Oh Cal. Final ending three.

This church is fearless, and has a boldness that I pray for God to raise in me. Continue to pray for strength for the team, we have one more day and we want to give as much tomorrow as we did today.