Frontline ministry

Wow so yesterday I really felt like a missionary. In the morning I sat down with one of the locals that works with us here, William, and we made lesson plans for the english classes this week. Then right after lunch we went down into town and I shared a devotional on the radio! It's really been amazing how God has enhanced my ability to speak spanish to where I feel like I could communicate anything in spanish without trouble :) After the radio, we went back to the hole of the pigs to establish a ministry in that village. We don't want to just hand stuff out to them and give them the expectation that the white man can provide for what they need. We would rather that they expect that we're going to come in there without any judgement and just spend time with them and share the love of Christ with them. There is stuff that will be given to them, but it would be best for that to come from the community pastor or leader and so we have to identify who that person is before we can funnel anything through him. But yeah, yesterday we brought some balls out there and jump rope, etc, and at first they had no idea what we were doing out there and so we tried to invite the kids to go play, P.S over half of them are Hatian. Most of them speak spanish but the kids only speak creole, thankfully William speaks creole as well as spanish and english, but yeah that was hard cuz the kids didn't understand who we were or why we were there. Well we got a few people out to the field and just started playing and it wasn't but 10 or 15 minutes before it seemed like the whole village was out there. There were just as many adults if not more that came out to play soccer which was super fun! and everyone else was hanging out and having a good time. I really think it was a great entry point for the ministry and we're gonna be going back out there soon to try to teach the kids some jesus songs and just have more fun with the whole community. We're planning on doing a similar thing in another village this afternoon so that should be fun. This village isn't as bad off and they already kinda know us because of of Blanco's foster ministry there so I'm hoping we can get them singing some songs and learning about Jesus :)

After we spent time in the hole of the pigs we went out to Los Cocos to teach an English class. Los Cocos is my absolute favorite village here. The community is very clean, and the houses all look nice. By nice I mean that that they look respectable and that the person who made it actually cared and took pride in their work. Even so, they're really just village huts made out of palms and other natury stuff. The people are very poor and don't have much of anything material wise but they're all soooo joyful and have tons of love for the Lord, and VERY eager to learn English! We meet in a church that one of the missionary groups that came down here built for the village and there's about 15-20 people from the village that come on a regular basis to learn. I had a lot of fun just working with a few of the villagers and helping them to really understand more about english and be able to use phrases like "could you meet me at 10:30". I was just so honored that God used me to be a part of the work that he's doing in that wonderful little village. The next step is going to be helping them get some little business started so that they can make more money to sustain their families and their village.

Aight well I'm gonna peace out, if you have anything specific that you want to know or you want me to talk more about just leave it in a comment and I'll try to put that in the next blog. Thank you guys SOOOO much for your prayer support I can feel it with me each and every day. Much love and God bless!

P.S I almost forgot to share this awesome verse that God encouraged me with this morning.
"Listen my dear brothers: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?" -James 2:5
And it has been so awesome to see how rich in faith these people are :)