We spent the week in Las Flores with Marvin's family. With no transportation, internet, or phone service, we were able to focus on relationships with his family and other members of the community. Prior to arriving in Las Flores, we had decided that we would invite his family to pray with us each evening as we had seen another family practice this in Tegucigalpa. The first night we prayed, had a short Bible study, and listened to his little brothers and sisters sing songs. The next night, it happened again- about an hour of singing songs together, dancing, and shouting Alleluia, followed by prayer and Bible study. Then, the next night one cousin came, then that cousin invited another cousin, then the next night even more kids showed up. We had a lively church service that the children led.
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| Smiling after singing songs on the front porch |
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| The kids getting ready for their skit. Delmer is using the microphone he crafted out of scrap wood. |
It brought us so much joy to worship with Marvin's family, and we were humbled when the children took over the leadership of the evening worship, prayer, and Bible study. Church is not complicated, but it is complex. "For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others." Romans 12:4-5.
What function is Christ calling you to within His body, within His church?
