Sunday morning worship in the Valley of the Angles is always one of the best parts of the trip for me, and today was no different. Again it is hard to express with words, but the worship service here is always so joyful and uplifting. I tried to capture a couple of the songs on video - hopefully the sound quality is ok.
Ricky gave a great message this morning! He had just a little help with translation from our friend Nahum. It was hard to tell which one of them was most nervous!
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I can't wait to see what the rest of the week holds, but it's hard to imagine it getting much better!
We were all very excited when a lady from the congregation responded to the message! Plans for her baptism began right after service was over. Ricky and Carlos drove to a nearby swimming pool while lunch was being prepared to make sure that the pool would be suitable for the baptism. Speaking of lunch, we were once again treated to a delicious meal at the church building!
After lunch Ricky met with Carlos and some of the ladies from the congregation to discuss some improvements that they would like to do to the building. The rest of our group hung out and played with the kids for awhile.
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The ladies of the congregations also took this time to go through the eyeglasses that had been collected at Washington St. Out of 50-something pairs that we brought down, over 30 were distributed.
Finally it was time for the baptism. We were met with more good news when we arrived at the pool. On the drive over, another lady had decided that she too wanted to be baptized! For the second year in a row, Ricky was chosen to perform the baptisms. Once again, he braved the cold water for the privilege to baptize these young women into Christ.
We finished the day off with a little souvenir shopping in the Valley of the Angels and some more good old American fast food.
What an amazing day.
ReplyDeleteHey - I recognize Elizabeth's glasses case among the ones on the table. :-)
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