Back to Guatemala City

Well, we just said goodbye to our translators and are getting ready to hop on the vans to head back to Guatemala City.  We've spent the last three days going into homes and into the schools sharing the gospel and trying to build relationship through the church here.  My group was the one that got to go into the schools.  We were able to share the story of Christ with 200-300 kids and did our best to encourage them to get involved with a local evangelical church.  It is a hard balance.  On the one hand you would love to see everyone make professions of faith right there.  On the other hand, both here and in the U.S., you see the effects of irresponsibly distributing half truths apart from the biblical guidance of a local church and how many people think they are right with God because someone had them recite a prayer.  In an effort to avoid confusion and "easy believeism" we tried in everything we did to point people back to the local church for discipleship and counseling. 

The rest of the groups spent their time visiting door to door.  Through these effort they were able to see people come to faith in Christ.  Please continue to pray of Bethany Baptist Church in Chacalte as the continue to minster in this area.