Wow! We only have 11 days left and I'm stoked! This trip has been so life changing and I feel like a new person. I can't wait to get home and put to work all the good info and tools that I've learned here. Yesterday, Sunday, was great! Brandie, one of the girls on our trip, and myself do the music for one of the services and it has been great to expand my abilites. It's so hard because they all have their own ideas on how the song should go so they all do their own thing! HAHA! It's so funny. So me, as the pianist, just plays it my way and Brandie sings with me and thats it! LOL! I will never be critical of music in the States ever again!
The people here have such a love for God it is unreal. It's like a church of 700 members of new converts. You know that fire that is in new converts? That's what this whole church has. It's amazing. It reminds me of all the messages and songs about not losing your first Love and always remembering where God has brought you from. It's really unreal to me, the love and appreciation these people have for God. The focus here is all about God, all of the young people have youth service every other Friday night and its games and fun but at the end there is a speaker and there is ALWAYS and altar call that is absolutely amazing. Every youth service we've been to, someone new has gotten the Holy Ghost. I long for that fire in Portland!! Then, for the whole church, they have prayer Mon-Fri 6:30-8:30 every morning and it's kind of like come and go as you please but at 8:15 they all come together and worship together and sing a song or two and start the day together as a whole body of Christ! It's so amazing!!! The unity here is so strong and you can sense it. They start each day together and they are so open with each other's needs so they all pray and intercede for each other.
The church here is so big and it's only because of Home Bible studies! I can't wait to get home, I have such a burden for Bible studies! More so than I ever have! Look out Portland, I'm coming home soon! Ain't nothin' going to discourage me, I'm sold out for God!! God bless all of you, I pray this blog has blessed you in the last two months. It's been encouraging to hear from you all. Love you all!
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