This past Sunday was a special day for our church. We had a Presbyterian pastor come and preach for us! This is the first time the church has had a pastor preach for over a year. We had a special service including profession of faith, a baptism and celebration of the Lord's supper!
Wilf has been teaching a profession of faith class to these three ladies for most of our time here. It has been a great blessing for the ladies and for Wilf! He had the privilege of being a part of their public profession of faith. The two ladies standing are sisters and the elderly lady is their mother. Please keep these ladies in your prayers. The mother is a widow, but the two younger ladies both have very dificult marriages.
These ladies (along with another sister, who is already a member of our church) have asked Wilf if they could continue meeting, but use the time now to go and speak with their neighbours about Christ. Of course Wilf was only too happy to accompany them!
The Pastor speaking about baptism before he baptizes the little girl.
To celebrate the Lord's supper, everyone makes a circle around the table.
After the service, we had lunch together. Some ladies from the church had gotten up at six in the morning to prepare the soup. Of course we had it with tortillas!
Marcella was one of those helpful ladies. I thought this was a great picture of her because the people here rarely smile for the camera. She liked it too and asked for a copy :)
It was a real blessing to have the Pastor with us for the day. There is a possibility that he will be returning here in the fall to be the pastor of this church for a couple of years. We are excited about this and are praying for the Lord's leading.
Wilf has been teaching a profession of faith class to these three ladies for most of our time here. It has been a great blessing for the ladies and for Wilf! He had the privilege of being a part of their public profession of faith. The two ladies standing are sisters and the elderly lady is their mother. Please keep these ladies in your prayers. The mother is a widow, but the two younger ladies both have very dificult marriages.
These ladies (along with another sister, who is already a member of our church) have asked Wilf if they could continue meeting, but use the time now to go and speak with their neighbours about Christ. Of course Wilf was only too happy to accompany them!
The Pastor speaking about baptism before he baptizes the little girl.
To celebrate the Lord's supper, everyone makes a circle around the table.
After the service, we had lunch together. Some ladies from the church had gotten up at six in the morning to prepare the soup. Of course we had it with tortillas!
Marcella was one of those helpful ladies. I thought this was a great picture of her because the people here rarely smile for the camera. She liked it too and asked for a copy :)
It was a real blessing to have the Pastor with us for the day. There is a possibility that he will be returning here in the fall to be the pastor of this church for a couple of years. We are excited about this and are praying for the Lord's leading.
6 comments:
MARVELOUS NEWS!!!
We can truly say,this is the LORD'S doing, and it is marvelous to see. Let us give thanks to the LORD, for He is good, for His mercy endures forever. Psalm 118: 23& 29.
Dear Wilf and Sharon!
That's great news!
Thanks for the post. A beautiful picture of a "full" Lord's Day!
I also wanted to write to let you know that Eric DeKorte made a presentation at our church last Sunday (as well as Zion)about his trip to visit you.
We enjoyed seeing and hearing more about your work (although some of the photos were familiar looking from your blog!)
May the Lord bless and grow the seeds planted. And may the Lord be with you in your plans to return (and say "good-bye")in the next few weeks.
Take care....
Christine Valk
Wonderful post Sharon! It would be a great blessing for the church to have a pastor again! We continue to pray for the ministry there and also for your family. Jonas often says "Is Bradly STILL in G?" Looking forward to seeing you all again soon!! :)
May God strengthen and uphold the faith of those ladies, and continue to build His church!
It was wonderful to see these ladies do profession of faith. We were happy to have met them when we came last Nov. We pray that the Lord wil continue to bless them and His church there in C. and also provide a Pastor for them.
LOve, Mom & Dad
Very exciting, Shar! Were there a lot of visitors on that Sunday? I think it's neat that the ladies would like to continue meeting to share the gospel with others--we need that same zeal here at home, eh? Can't wait to see you all in another month and a half!
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