Weekend Update

Samuel translating for Pastor Jeff as he preaches on Friday night.

Now that all of our theologies have been jacked up by Pastor Jeff and Pastor Frazier, we are sad to see our time with them come to an end for now.  They have become our friends and we are glad to have had the opportunity to meet them.  Spending time with them was a wonderful way to prepare our hearts for Haiti.  Because of our conversations with these hombres en Christo, we have found ourselves challenging each other with deeper questions and discussions.

During the day on Saturday, we had free time to explore Santiago and on our way back to the Institute ran into Pastor Frazier and his friend Pastor Christian.  Pastor Frazier asked him to pray for us as we decide the next steps in our lives.  Pastor Christian has a very rare and unique ministry of prophetic word, so after praying for us he began to have a prophecy about us as a group and then individually.  As a group, he said we have a "divine connection" and individually God gave him insight into our lives and was able to match our situations in life with a biblical reference having never met us before.  God is definitely using Pastor Christian in the spiritual gift of prophecy in an explosive and monumental way to change people's perspective on their own lives.

After watching Pastor Jeff preach a few times at the Pastors' Conference, on Sunday morning we ventured into Santiago to see Pastor Frazier speak at a Free Methodist Church.  He spoke in Spanish and we had a volunteer translator help us understand the major ideas of his message.  Pastor Frazier spoke on the prodigal son and how God doesn't change his plans, but we do.

The afternoon was filled with a big lunch back in Jarabacoa at the Luna household, then another round of two sermons for Pastor Jeff at the Luna's church.  He uniquely put how paradise and the love of Jesus is here on earth and within us as Christ followers.  Not just someday in Heaven.  Fifty people between the two services were impacted greatly by his message and renewed their first love.

Our last supper with the two Pastors was at a Columbian restaurant where Alonda and Danny ate an omelette/quesadilla mixture that looked...delicious.

We bid farewell to the Pastors early Monday morning and hope in the near future to venture to Oklahoma to see them soon!