2014 Mexico Mission - Day 4 > 선교 일지

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Hello Church!

Praise the Lord for the divine appointments that He has given us today. We had a full day filled with ministry opportunities at the children's hospital and fellowship with one another. 

We started the day with the group devotional as usual.

Soon after the group morning devotional, we grabbed the gift bag that we made for the children the day before. We filled the colorful bags with small things such as balls, stamps, stickers, bubble, light-up sticks, inflatable toy hammer, box of crayon, notebooks and the four spiritual law gospel track printed in Spanish and English. With these bags in hand, we rode the bus to a large general hospital.

We were actually supposed to go to another hospital that the church had visited before but at the last minute it did not work out. God had different plans in mind. This ministry opportunity opened up because of a connection that the church member had with one of the chief nurse working at this hospital.  We were told that we would not be able to share the gospel or be able to pray for the children, but Praise The Lord!! We were able to share God's Word with the children, parents and staff.

After sharing of God's Word, each of our youth gave a bag of goodies to the children. I'm not sure if our youth were prepared to encounter what they saw - the young hospitalized children. Most of our youth really tried to connect with the children even with their limited Spanish. As I looked at them, I really saw Christ's love being displayed through our youth.

Smile that we left on a boy and a mother's faces. :)

Andrew, who is fluent in Spanish, was able to share the gospel track and pray with him.

Some of our adults were able to share and pray with the staff and parents as well.

One of the hospital staff was moved to tears by our heart-felt prayers for the children and family. For us, we were thankful that God gave us this opportunity to witness Christ's work through us. We were so thankful for this divine appointment. We were so thankful that God used us to bring even the smallest of smiles and to bring hope through prayer. 

Pastor Jae and I could not help but realize, why can we not do this at home? Once again we are realizing that mission is not somewhere far away, but mission is HERE and NOW. Our mission field is where we live. It is Bay Area.

Prayer Request

1) We will be traveling early tomorrow to a tourist spot about a hour away. There we will be hiking up for about an hour to see the ruins. After coming back down, we are going to do our gospel presentations and we will be sending the students out with the gospel tracks to share with whoever is there. Typically we need a permit to do this, but we are going to prayerfully go ahead and step out in faith. Please pray that the officials would look favorably. Please pray that God will use the gospel presentations. Please pray for more of God's divine appointments. 

2) Please pray for my shoulder (Pastor Jamie). I slept wrong last night and my mobility is severely limited along with very sharp and stiff pain.