A Snapshot from Summer 2009

Around Agua Viva, we’ve  been experiencing a quieter, richer summer than most.  We’ve had less groups and less people, but very sweet times of ministry for which we have been grateful.

One of my highlights happened a couple of weeks ago, working with a children’s ministry that meets on a river-bed soccer field in the poor community called 89.

We had been working there for three days and had crowds of 100-ish kids daily.  The women who gathered around at the VBS must have been between 20 and 40 years old, but they all looked old and weathered by difficult lives, and had blank eyes.  The children were unruly as unsupervised children can be.  One neighbor threatened to bash in the car windows of one of our cars parked near his house, and another neighbor turned his music up full-blast when we started the lesson times.  It was oppressive.

So we decided to do warfare.  Some of us left early the final day in order to go pray over the soccer field. We prayed for the neighborhood, for the angry neighbors, for the blank-stare women, for the neglected children, for the VBS speakers and leaders, and for God’s truth to set people free.

Then we held just another VBS.

The music guy turned his music off when the lesson started.

The angry man never came out of his house, but someone else did and welcomed us to park there.

And when the gospel was presented, 67 children and 3 moms decided to follow Jesus!

Coincidence?  

Nah.

God is good in Mexico, too.

Allyson Searway