January 11, 2009

We have our first team of the year here this week and tonight we went to one of our newer churches for the evening service. We arrived at 7:00, which is when the service is suppose to start, and the only person their was the pastor, Raul. It was dark and certainly didn’t look like there was going to be a church service tonight. We asked Raul if there was going to be a service tonight and he said “Yes.” We had brought our own chairs with us so we set up our chairs and waited.

Eventually they brought out the sound equipment and the keyboard and turned on the music. They only play it loud here. Over the next twenty minutes people begin to come and we had about thirty people from the community along the twelve of us packed into this small area under a tin roof.

Raul preached on Apocalipsis 22:12 and 2:23 (Revelation 22:12 and 2:23). Jesus is coming unexpectedly and He will reward everyone for what they have done. This is not our home. We will be rewarded with heaven, no more pain, no more hurt, and no more crying. We have our rewards to look forward to and let’s not forget that. Even though it was in Spanish and we didn’t get all of it, his message was what we needed. And, after the service when we were talking with Raul he told us his message came from God. He didn’t know what he was going to speak on or what he was going to say before the service begin.