Sunday: In the evening Brad went to one of the new churches to speak. He knew he was in trouble when pastor Miguel showed up at our house just before he left to say Miguel was going to take the van and bring people from some other churches to the service. Turns out he made two trips to two different churches to bring people. After arriving at the church with Saul, Saul took the truck and went to get people from another church to bring to the service.
This church meets outside at a house in El Porvenir. The family that owns the house where it meets had worked most of the day decorating the area where the church meets with balloons, streamers, and a big sign that read "Welcome to the Baptist Church of God" Well, actually it was in Spanish but we are using are translation skills to help out here. This was turning out to be one big party.
Brad's plan to do his first message in Spanish to a small group was not going well. By the time everybody was there they had more people at this service than at the one Thursday night. Too late now, might as well go for it, gotta start somewhere.
Brad did speak. For about 20 minutes or so. All in Spanish. And from the people's faces and their reactions he thinks they may have understood most of it. He did explain to them up front that he would be speaking slowly because his brain works very slowly in Spanish. The people were very understanding and very kind.
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