Today was our last day with the church. We started out with a service in the new church building. It was very exciting to be a part of the first ever Sunday service in the new building. There were over 135 people in attendance. Almost double the number they usually have! It was a great service! We also found out today that the fruit of all of our door to door work was 46 people giving their lives to Christ! Praise the Lord!

Now for the long journey home. Please pray for a safe trip and that we make all of our connections. We are all very excited to tell you all about the trip!

Thank You Lord for all You have done in and through us this week!

Yesterday was our last day of door to door ministry and also our last visit with a small group. I can't believe that this week is already over! It went so fast... We have made so many new friends. Tonight we will have supper and a service with all the people we visited, we are preparing for 106 people. Many of them gave their lives to the Lord this week! 2 of us will have an opportunity to share our testimonies at the service tonight. Tomorrow we will be having the morning service at the new church! This will be the first time that they will do this and we are all very excited! I will take a lot of pictures to share with you all when we get back. Thank you all for all your prayers, we could not have done the things we did without them. Please continue to pray for tonight and tomorrow and for a safe trip back to the US on Monday and Tuesday.

Today was a good day. We spent the day going to different houses of people of the church and sharing our tesitmonies with their family and friends who were not saved. In all 5 people gave their lives to Christ today. Praise the Lord! We are all very tired physically and mentally but are very excited about what God is doing here. The church here has over 300 people in cell groups, many of them are new Christians! It has been very encouraging visiting the different cell groups. Tomorrow we will have a day off, we will do some site seeing and some shopping. We appreciate all your prayers. Please pray that we will finish this week strong.

Monday, August 2nd

Without a doubt, this day has to be the best day of the trip, thus far.

The team started working at the new sight of the church. Dirt, debrs, rocks, and bricks all had to be either used, moved, or hauled out of the new building site. ...We are having a special celebration there this weekend and it is important that we can make it look its best. Along with our team, the pastoral team, and members of the congregation, both young and old came to help. We carried, lifted, hauled, and shoveled to make the church ready. We also got the recycling ready for distribution and loaded. The Recycyling Ministry is a terrific ministry that can be talked about at a later time.

After lunch and a short rest, the team headed out with some women from the church to talk to some people in the community. Many of these people either don´t believe in Christ and God´s love with us, or they don´t believe in anything, or they don´t feel church is necessary to attend. One particular family had asked that we speak to their three teenage sons. Also, a few friends were invited to see "the Americans." We gave our testimonies and had a good discussion about, God, The Bible, and church. It was unbelievable. A friend of the family decided to become a believer that day. I think the team was speechless (which can be hard for some of us). I think the team will remember this for the rest of their lives.

After talking to one other family, we went over to Pasto Marco house for supper. Many elders of the church also came. It was a evening full of lots of laughter, love, and kindness. The church´s generosity towards us has truly been remarkable. Everyone gives from their heart. Our team feels so blessed.

God IS Great!!

Posted by Chris Heitz

Sunday Aug 1

Well, we haven't wasted much time here so far. We started at 9am yesterday going door to door sharing our testimonies with the youth group. It was a great way to start off the week. For Chris and Darrin, this was a first for them but they did great! Darrin was also able to share his testimony through an interpreter to about 65 youth and young adults last night at their last ALPHA class. He was pretty nervous but he did very well. Today we have been attending the regular Sunday morning church services. We have been to 2 of them and have 1 more to go to tonight. Tomorrow we will begin cleaning the new church building so that we can have church services there next Sunday.

Thank you all for praying for us, we appreciate all of your prayers.