A new song

Sacred Christian music is absolutely beautiful! I have loved listening to the many CD's we have collected over the years. The music we used to listen to - rock, country, hip hop, and all that plus some CCM after I was saved - just cannot compare to sacred music. The sound, the words, and the way the music moves your heart to worship a Holy, Just, Loving, Omnipotent and sacrificial God will never be matched with rock music attached to Christian words.

I'm still adjusting to sacred music in Spanish. Sometimes the songs are prettier in this new language of mine. Yet other times, nothing but English can compare. At any rate we enjoyed having the "Argentina team" from Maranatha Baptist Bible College in Wisconson ministering in the church here through music. We got a call about 3 weeks ago from a missionary friend in Argentina asking if we'd like to have this team over for a couple days.

The brass group was amazing! Each of the singing groups was a tremendous blessing. They worked hard at learning every song in Spanish, I should say Castellano, which was a particular blessing to the Uruguayans. The one on one instrumental and choral clinic was a tremendous help.

It was fun to host 4 young women - Emily, Tiffany, Laura and Lori. Emily comes from a family of 9 children so she handled the bustle rather well. Tiffany is the grand daughter Ron and Loraine Breil, friends of ours from our home church. (Loraine, we are praying for a full recovery from your recent heart attack!) And Laura and Lori were neat to get to know.

After we distributed invitations and a church flyer, we took the team out to Los Tres Botones, that farm we take everyone, and they had a great time. They got to enjoy the terrific Uruguayan food, horseback riding, soccer and more.

Last night's service was a particular blessing to us after we saw, Richard. Scott first met Richard when he came by our house selling potting soil. He has been back at least a dozen times to sell other things and also to talk. He's the guy who makes things from the palm leaves that I blogged about a couple months ago. He is a believer and also worked with sail teams in yacht clubs so he and Scott have much in common. After the service he said he could hear the difference in the music and thought it to be such a blessing that he plans to begin coming to the church regularly.

Richard was one of ten visitors last night. Please continue to pray for our language teacher, Cecilia, we have invited her to church dozens of times and though she says she will come she has not.

Well, I have a house to clean, laundry to wash, a church directory to design, and a kindergardener to gieve a test to. I'll try to post more vacation pictures as well as those from this special music meetings.

Tesoros de celestiales

Today was the first ever Mother Daughter tea for La Iglesia Bautista Fundamental and it was very nice. Some of the ladies brought sweet and salty treats to be enjoyed with the tea. We had a fun icebreaker where the ladies had to search for others to sign their paper for that specific thing. For instance, I signed many papers under the lady born in another country and Ruth signed most of the papers for a lady whose husband has a little hair. LOL.

I sang a special, a capella, wouldn't recommend that to even the bravest soloist. And I was privilged to give the devotional on Matthew 6:19,20. Where I shared with the ladies the importance of having the proper view of God, realizing Jesus Christ is the Saviour, in order to be saved and also in order to live for Him, therefore laying up treaures in Heaven. The Lord blessed and many ladies spoke of changing their focus. Please continue to pray for those who need to be saved.

While we enjoyed our tea the ladies who brought treasures were able to share the importance of their treasure. I was especially touched by Sylvia's testimony that her Baptism certificate was her treasure. As it was the day she realized she must put off the old man and be serious about following after Christ. I'll tell you that she had a great deal to do with the tea and her help was a blessing.

Finally I took pictures of the different ladies and their daughters to have printed for them. I enjoyed the time of fellowship and the focus on the Lord. The pictures below are of the activities today, enjoy.

First Special Meeting in the BIG Tent

This is the view of the tent from the front, the sign is for the daughter church, started in the Perez home.
A view from behind the pulpit. There were around 6o in attendance last night.
The orchestra playing, we have a clarinet, sax, violin, bells, guitar, trombone, recorder flute and trumpet.

The meeting went well and aside from the mosquitos was very nice. The tent is wonderful and certainly is a blessing of the Lord. Please pray that tonight we will have many visitors and we will see some come to know the Lord. The young man to the left of Archie is a Pastors son from one of the Perez' supporting churches. He and his friend diligently served the Lord here this week.