Today was a great day. We started our morning at 6 AM and ate breakfast. We then traveled for about three hours to one of the churches on the District. While there we had a chance to help make and pour concrete for their new Pastors quarters. Up until today, the building had been just a dirt floor. Our team worked great together. They all looked like pros.
After completion of the floors, the Pastor was are working with sat us down and began to share the vision for the property and for the churches on his district. He has over 250 churches on his district and volunteers his time in serving these churches as their overseer.
The whole trip I had been asking God to show us how to help these churches and Pastor Manuel gave us that opportunity today. He said that many of the churches cannot afford to pay any of theirs pastors and often times have no resources to help even fund the church. Part of his vision was raise enough funds for a Coffee Plantation that would support the church and its pastors. Pastor Manuel continued to share that the land for this has already been purchased and that he was believing God for the seed money. He also shared that the farm would more than pay back the money in the first year and double the profits every consecutive year. This is how the churches would help fund pastors churches and provide proper training for them. I really believe that God spoke to all of our group to help raise this money. To get this started for the churches only takes $3000, and we believe that we can be the ones to help him start this ministry. They have the workers in place to make sure it stays successful. We shared we wanted to help with this and Pastor Manuel could only say it was a 15 year prophecy that was coming through with our group.
We then traveled back to our Hotel where several of the team got to swim for the two hours of down time we had.
Tonight the church graciously prepared a home cooked meal for our team. It was their version of the steak kabob. We also had beans and fresh pico de gallo. The night quickly turned into fun for the students as the two churches taught dances to each other and then prepared one together for tomorrows church service.
The end of our night couldn't have ended better when both churches combined to play soccer game. The day was a great day and we know that we are walking in the path God has prepared for us.
Tomorrow we will be going to see the place where the coffee will be planted and be involved in the youth service tomorrow night. God has been so good to us and he is opening the eyes of all of our kids for sure.
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