What an amazing experience ministering in the jungle! We saw God work in many ways. I want to share one of these ways because I know the kids will not be bloggin about this one.
One of the places that we did VBS at was at a school in the villiage of Diez de Augusto. There are very few Christians in that comunity yet 90 children showed up for the VBS. (They had been waiting for 1 1/2 hours for us since we were a bit late with the bus incident.) Though the teachers there were not believers, they asked us to come and pray for them. Four of them showed up for prayer and five us us also were there with them. This last year two of the teachers had died unexpectedly. It had been rumored that the witchdoctor in the town had put a curse on the school and these teachers were very fearful. Mark Shaefer (the missionary we worked with) explained to them how the the Creator sent his son to die for us to take the punishment for our sin and that they needed to trust in him for protection against the evil spirits. Each of us prayed for one of the teachers. Jim (a new missionary there) prayed for one of the men and showed him Steps to Peace with God book and the teacher prayed to receive Christ. What a blessing! (I wish I could speak Spanish!!) Pray that he would read the Bible that Jim gives him and that he would be able to share Christ with the other teachers there. - Mrs. Hahn
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