Hola amigos!
It's Sunday evening abour 6:30 p.m. and we're getting ready to go to the Cochabamba airport. We had a wonderful morning of worship today with our brothers and sisters at the Florida Norte church. We presented them with many ministry resources and a financial donation toward their church building project. We had a working lunch with about 10 of their church leaders. Topics of discussion were the qualities of a God-honoring leader, how to develop leaders, ministry structures and more. This was a wonderful afternoon and it was filled with prayer. We also shared with them about a local pastor who is trained in reconciliation and is willing to help them if they desire. It's been such a blessing to have Abel with us as he was the pastor of Florida Norte over 10 years ago. He is one of their churches adopted sons.
It's always difficult to say goodbye. Many tears flowed from our cheeks as we were given gracious gifts by them. They send their love and prayers and hellos back to all of our church family and senders. Kristin, Diane and I have said to one another often during our devotions, prayer and planning sessions here that this was God's timing to have a team come from OSLC.
We fly to Santa Cruz, then to Miami and then to Boston--hopefully arriving into Logan about 1 p.m. or so. We will post more photos soon--hopefully from the airport! And I hope to get Kristin and Diane to blog atleast once more.
We love you! Dios te bendiga!
mateo
