Amazing Weekend of Ministry

I had told you on Sunday that I would update you with a great story from the weekend. I wanted to wait until I had the new site up and running. Before I jump into the story though, I want to thank Fourtyseven Media for an awesome site. If you need any web stuff done those guys know what they are doing. Thank you Nate Croft for all of you hard work.

Now for the story of the week if not the month. This past Saturday we went to a village about 2 hours from Casa. First let me tell you that our bus driver was not even sure if we would make it back out once we got there. It was a crazy bus ride and when we got within a half mile we were told that a bridge was out so we had to walk the rest of the way. We did have a 4 wheel drive that got all of our equipment there. The plan going into the village was to feed the entire village fried chicken and have some games for them. Well we could not have a party without a jumper, sno cone, cotton candy and tons of prizes for the games.

As I got the jumper to the site people started to circle around me. There were 150 to 200 people that had no clue what was fixing to happen. As I started unrolling the Spiderman jumper people were puzzled to see what I had. When I flipped the top over everyone took two steps back and in one voice said WOW!. Then I hooked the pump to it and the kids went crazy. I was later told that know one had ever seen one of those giant spiders before. It was so cool, but that was just the begining of a great day.

Next we cranked up the cotton candy and sno cone machine and that got everyones attention. Within about 2 minutes we had 150 people in each line. We had 70 year old people standing in line for almost an hour to get a stick of cherry cotton candy. The kids and the people of the village were so nice. They waited in line and did not complain one time. We also had 2 churches from Alabama that bought all of the chicken and the church cooked it up and served everyone that was hungry.

The most amazing thing that happened though involved Zach. For 3 days before this party he begged me to let him stay home. He said that he did not like block parties that when we were in the states he just did not see a reason for us having them. I told him to just go with us and if he did not like it he would not have to go again. I must say that I took a big risk with that statement but I knew God had something planned. While I was working with the cotton candy Zach came over and ask me for a evagecube. He had been playing soccer with some kids and felt like maybe he could share with them. He grabbed Papblo one of our kids here at Casa and started to share with the kids. He later came up to me with tears in his eyes and said Dad I know 5 people that are now going to be in Heaven with me. I must say that as I type this it is hard to hold back the tears. When it was all said and done there were over 20 salvations in that village. We also were able to leave some cubes with the Pastor and talked with him about coming back to train his people on door to door outreach. Finally this picture you see was taken from a distance and this little girl had no clue that I was snapping her picture. If anyone should still wonder why we moved to Guatemala this picture should explain why.

Please pray for our Casa kids. We are building an outreach team that will be trained on how to do everything. They are eager to learn and dying to get out and share their faith. Also Please pray for our adoption. We thought that our boys would be with us but we have had a couple of paperwork issues and they are still 3 hours away. They are ready to come home and we are ready for them. So please join us in praying that this 5 year struggle will be over soon.

His Servant,
Mike