Day of Worship

Another busy day (would you expect less?!) It started out by us (Bruce, Jackie and myself) going to a bakery to get something for breakfast. There were so many wonderful things, I told Bruce to get what he thought would be good (like any of it wouldn't be -duh!). He did great picking out some yummy delectables -there was apple strudel, sugared crescent rolls, danish and ham and cheese croissants, to name a few! Then we went to the Alliance church here in Montevideo. The Pastor (Jorge) preached on Acts 10:15-46 where Peter was challenged in a vision from God to change his view about people who are different from him (that's a really brief paraphrase of the message, which was in Spanish and translated by one of the workers). Anyway, there was a vision, a commission and results. Pastor Jorge challenged all of us to think about that person(s) in our life that might make us uncomfortable or who is different than us that God wants us to share the gospel with. It was a great sermon! Then Pastor Jorge and his wife Sylvia came for lunch. Sylvia speaks English very well so I was able to converse with her. We shared testimonies about how we were saved and about our families and a wonderful time of fellowship. It's so neat to share with these Uruguayan brothers and sisters in Christ! It's also really neat to watch Jackie talk with them in Spanish. She would tell you that she's not that good, but most everybody she's talked with have been able to understand her, and she does really well catching the gist of conversations if the speaker doesn't talk too fast, which most of them seem to do! After the Pastor and his wife left and we got everything cleaned up, we went to Jim  and Timbrel's house(workers who have four adorable children) for a time of worship and praise,while Bruce and Stephanie went to the airport to pick up another volunteer who came in today to help us this coming week. Another Spirit-filled time of sharing with the workers and volunteers. All week, Jim has been challenging us to ask God to reveals to us individually His name that we may know Him in an intimate way.Timbrel contined that theme and had us share and write on a sheet of paper what name we know God by and that Uruguans can know Him by. My name for God is "shepherd". Then she wanted us to say a 'stronghold' or something that we might be running from that would keep us from being effective for Christ. that would also apply to Uruguayans. Mine was "inadequacies". Sometimes, that's how I feel, but then I have to remember that "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me". He alone makes me adequate to do the things He wants me to
do! We ended the night by playing games, and I'm sad to say that I lost horribly at Settlers, but got a real experience in playing the "Uruguayan" way (well, not really 'Uruguayan' but definitely not the "State's" way I should say!). Anyway, we had fun and just being with everone was a real blessing!