Sunday Evening

Just as I mentioned in the last post - we did go out for salbutes last night.   We ended up at Diana's Saloon (a little hole-in-the-wall place to eat) because Cactus Plaza was way too busy.  But our food was great - we also had garanaches and fish empanadas and some coconut tarts for dessert.   It all hit the spot!

Today we had two worship services with the San Narciso church.  A team of 25 people from North Carolina arrived yesterday and will work this week on the church building in San Victor - this church is the new mission church for the San Narciso Church.   It is about 5 miles from San Narciso but takes about 25 minutes to get there because the road is so bad.    Anyway, one of the pastors in this group preached this morning in San Narciso during the usual Sunday school hour and this afternoon everyone traveled this road to San Victor for their first service in their mission church. 

The congregations of the San Pablo, Louisville and San Narciso churches all met together for the second worship which was to start at 4, but in reality started around 4:45.   There were at least 150 people in the church builiding, on the porch and standing at the windows.    The senior pastor from the team's church delivered the sermon and the service was followed by a meal of rice and beans with stew chicken and coleslaw.   On our way through San Narciso we picked up Lilybeth and her daughter and Taco (an elder in the San Narciso church who's back you can see in his red striped shirt).  They were waiting along side the road to catch a ride on the church bus, but a rain storm was brewing and we knew they would be soaked if they waited for the bus to come by.

This is a picture of the graveyard across the street from the San Victor church.  The hills in the background are in Mexico.  This village is very close to the Rio Hondo and the Mexican border.

Between the services, we ate lunch again in Patchekan at Romalda's mothers thatch kitchen.  We have had 3 meals of rice and beans and stew chicken in the past 36 hours!    We are invited to Veronica's house for lunch tomorrow and to help her celebrate her 46th birthday.  

There were so many children at the service in San Victor.   It's hard to describe the background noise a church full of curious children cause.   They are precious in His sight!