Hello there come estan? How are you in Spanish... Today was a great day we all went to church for the first time and it was quite exciting and not much different from a normal Pentecostal service in the US. My Spanish isn't the best in the world yet so understanding the preacher wasn't the easiest task ever but the whole experience was great because I knew we were all worshiping the same God and the same Jesus Christ. What a beautiful picture as people from different walks of life come together and seek the same loving and life giving Savior. As the service was ending I felt God lead me to the alter just to meet with Him not for some crazy experience. I've found there are times when God calls me to the alter not for weeping and sobing repentance but just to meet with me in a way that is more special than staying in my seat. Though talking to God in your seat is not bad I think it is wise that if He wants to meet you at the alter there is a purpose (somtimes that purpose is to dismantal a prejudice you might have against people who go there...)

Anway after the service we came back and met with the children's ministry leaders to discuse ways of going about the ministry they have put together for the church (I think i mentioned it in my last blog.). The meeting was entirely in Spanish so Lydia had to do most of the translating but I was able to keep up just not really offer imput other than the occational nod of my head... Their heart is so on fire for what God has placed in them to do and that passion is spreading to me. I have felt for sometime now a draw toward children... Not in the sense of children's ministry but more just in the way they think and worship God. It's like when a child speak all I can do is smile and see God speaking through them. I do love children and even more so I love how God lives through them so easily.

The last thing I want to leave you with, and I don't know if this speaks to anybody but it does to me but... Today I had a sudden revelation that I want to return to my first love. That is, there was a time when I sat around thinking about God and the love he has for me and the love I have for Him... For some reason I have turned that love into striving and toiling, trying to keep my head above some self induced waterwark that continiues to rise with my efforts. Jesus really does want to be with us and when we truely grasp that we will stop thinking so much and just be.
When we are truely in the presence of the Lord we will not worry about today or tomorrow but we will simply focus on his love for us and live out our love for him and thereby do the exact thing we were meant to do. Anyway I have a ton of thought which are going through me head and I won't go through them all but know this. Our life is simple. Jesus loves you. He especially loves you. Our non-motivated response is to love him back with everything we are. If we truely understand that Jesus loves us we will be able to completely love him. If we lose our independance, which we've gained by separation from God, we will gain our independance in Christ. All I'm saying is we won't have freedom until we submit to the love of Christ. After all he sumbitted to us and that is what relationship is, putting the needs of others before ours with the trust that they will do the same.
Bye!