Here is an update from one of the teams that we sent out to Paraguay.
Imagine you come to a place as a stranger and after a week you leave friends behind. That happened to us in Indepedencia.
The contact with the German family happened so randomly. We went into a shop in the Mennonite colony to buy a mirror. We shared with the Lady who runs it, what we are doing and why we are in Paraguay. She said that she has a friend, who started a small church not too long ago and might be interested in our program. Later we bring her our information letter and she takes it along to her friends house during her next visit, which is about 3 hrs drive away. The response to our information came almost immediately and some dates were arranged.
When we got there we were welcomed very warmly. They had a little guesthouse ready for us, where we could stay as a team. Our host family is the third generation of former immigrants from Germany, but they are no Mennonites. They own a ceramic factory. Every Monday they start the week with devotion in the factory. The church evolved out of this, because more and more workers decided to follow Jesus and needed a place, where they could bring their family. So the German family renovated an empty house next to the factory and turned it into a church.
We taught the Bible Panorama from Tuesday till Friday. Every day we had rain until late afternoon. The roads here get very muddy and dangerous to drive. Nevertheless we had 20-30 people every evening, who came anyways. One girl wasn’t even a Christian. She is dating someone who was raised Christian and turned away from Jesus. Now she is asking a lot of questions and he has to explain the biblical truth to her. God has interesting ways with people… This girl said, that she first didn’t want to come for the evening program, because she felt shy, but when Edith, who knew about her through someone else sent her a text message inviting her personally, she changed her mind. Well, she came the next day as well and the next day and the next day…
Saying goodbye at the end of this week, wasn’t easy. We were one in the same spirit and had some great fellowship with this Paraguayan-german family.
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