Service in Chalco (short story)
In short – the service went very well! Praise the Lord!
I think there were about 160 people there in all.
More details to follow.
Ministry glimpses
Service in Chalco Today
The service in Chalco starts today at 12:00pm local time. The current time here is:
From now until then we are packing up and loading instruments to take to Chalco, and then we’ll set up and practise there.
Thanks for your prayers! I’ll let you know how it goes. 🙂
Video presentation for Chalco service
Tomorrow we’re having a special service in Chalco to thank God for His mercy during the Chalco Flood. We’ll be providing some more clothing to those who lost so much in the flood, and also have Bibles to give them.
There will be some singing and a devotional during the service, but it’s especially a time for the people of Chalco to give testimonies and talk about everything that has happened.
Below is a (mostly) English version of the presentation we hope to show during the service (there’s still time to change a few things in it, but I think this is more or less how it will be – except in Spanish, of course!). It gives a bit of an overview the flood and some of the clean-up and relief efforts.
There’s still LOTS to be done, of course. The photos at the end were actually taken before the flood, so don’t be deceived by how nice it may look.
We would appreciate your prayers that the service on Sunday would be glorifying to God.
Here’s the video:
Anthems and Churches (podcast)
This podcast includes some exciting news – the special service in Chalco on the 14th of March, and the first service of a brand new local church on the 28th of March! Also, news about something that happened at one of Shari’s Amigas del Alma baking classes. But to begin – the story of the national and state anthems at Hannah’s school…
Bringing Provisions to Chalco (video)
Today we brought provisions to a few dozen of the families affected by the flooding in Chalco. We also invited them and others to the special service on the 14th.
I didn’t take a lot of video of actually handing out despensas (provisions), because I don’t want to embarrass anyone. However, we had some good talks with some people – many people remembered us from when we served the breakfasts (and we remembered some of them). Eventually word got around and we attracted a crowd of neighbours – there were about 20 people around us for a while.
With four vehicles and lots of helpers, we were done in about an hour. Now, we’ll see what happens on the 14th!
Here’s the video:
Chalco and Other Notes (podcast)
Wow, you don’t realize how out of it you are until you listen to yourself talking! Oh well, with a little work I think this podcast is understandable.
Note, however, that I slipped in a Spanish word by mistake – my "teclado" class is actually my keyboard class.
Also, I mention information about donating to the Chalco Flood relief effort – you can find that information here. For more on the flood, you can find the related posts easily using the Chalco Flood tag.
And now, without further confusion, here’s the podcast…