First Baptist Church-Newcastle

Today we arrived in Carbon. The first thing we saw was a lively service at the church and we were welcomed by them. We just prepared our beds to sleep and recover energy for tomorrow when we travel to Alto Jabui. Everyone has a heart willing to serve through this week! Keep praying for the team to see God’s hand in the work we will do.

Today we had breakfast and a devotional. Gabe and Layla shared during this time, and we also had a great time having a conversation between us, and now we are ready to head to Alto Jabui. We are so excited to meet all the people there!

We left Carbon church today and made our way to our final destination for the week, Alto Jabui! 

On our way there we crossed a few creeks and had a full experience pushing one of the buses through a hard crossing! 

After many water crossings and bumpy roads we have made it to Alto Jabui! Thank God! 

Once we had unloaded the buses and situated ourselves. 

Pastor Amado introduced himself to the new people in the group and shared with us some of the things that his family and the church have been going through after the last visit.

We then were able to pray over his family, for the health of pastora Damaris and the ministry God has given them. 

Before supper we had a big game with the locals! It was a blast to play and for the ones watching even more so! 

Every morning we have devos and today Charlie shared with us how we want to be accepted be those around us, but Jesus has called us and chosen us to be different, to be like Him! 

“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”

‭‭John‬ ‭15‬:‭16‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Today the Lord allows us to bless the people of this community in many ways. We have started construction! 

We will be helping out the church by putting in kitchen windows, during the process we are able to work with the locals and build relationships along the way! 

Today we shared with the kids from the community. We played different games and also had time to tell them a little bit about some Bible verses. Jesus is the way. It was amazing to see the joy that the kids bring to all the people. They are the future of this church. We prayed that God would keep guiding them and showing them His love.

We ended the day having worship time. It is always necessary to recover spiritual energy and have time to hear God’s voice. We are so grateful for everything that we were able to do throughout the day, and we pray for the movement of the spirit during the rest of the week.

Today we kept working on the kitchen windows and closing it up. We also finished up the floor for the Sunday school classroom! It has been a rewarding experience to be able to work along side the locals!

Today we were able to do day 2 of food distribution.  Every home that we went to share with was a blessing for us and for them. When we let God use us, we will see miracles happen.

”You are the miracle from God that we were praying for even before we met you” words from a person that we visited today.

We are blessing them with food, but at the same time, they are blessing us spiritually.

We had an amazing day with the kids, were we did crafts, bracelets and we shared a lesson about Jesus feeding a multitude with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes. 

We had time to share with some leaders from the church about how important it is for us to be desperate for God, but always remembering to be humble. It is important for us as leaders to always remember that if we want a vibrant church the revival starts in us.

We told the story of when jesus called His disciples to be fishers of men. We then did a craft helping them to visualize the strong! 

“Seeing the children come out of their shells and smiling more and being very energetic after 2 days of being with them, was awesome! The fact that they opened up to us was a blessing!” ~D

The same as our body, our spirit needs to be fed. We went to some houses to share a little testimony and a word from the Bible. And prayed for every kid and every person in each house. The team was intentional in these prayers. We know that the prayers of the righteous person produce results, even when we won’t be able to see the results. We trust that God is working and encouraging every person that we prayed for.

“Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.”

‭‭James‬ ‭5‬:‭16‬ ‭NLT‬‬

We celebrate because we had the opportunity to serve. As a family we are gonna lift each other up in prayer. Jesus wants us to be one to make the world believe that there is one God.

We are so grateful for these people!!.

“I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.”

John 17:21 NLT

We leaved alto Jabui, knowing that God has moved along this week, we saw the faithfulness of God through every relationship that He has made. We’re gonna keep praying for them and we know that they will be praying for us too.

God is Good!

We arrived Carbon in the afternoon being ready to play soccer. For the first time in the week it started to pour, that made the mejenga(soccer match) funnier, a lot of puddles and dirt to slide in.