We´re still here

After the first couple of ministry days in Zacatecoluca we moved to San Salvador. In San Salvador we worked for two days in a school in a barrio called Candelaria. This is a inner city type of neighborhood where there is a lot of broken homes, poverty, violence and crime. The children in the school responded to us in a really heartwarming ways. Our team of young people played with them, we fed them, and gave them vitamins. We did dramas and shared testimonies. We were able to stay with them a long time. Some just wanted to sit on my lap or to ride piggy back around the schoolyard. The youths in the school were slow to receive us, but our young people stayed with them and slowly broke down the barriers separating them from relationship. The teenagers at the school are facing pressure to join gangs and take drugs. There is a lot of violence in their neighborhood, so they have to develop a hard shell. However, some two dozen of them accepted Christ due to the ministry of our young people.

Our team has done so well in adapting to strange circumstances and keeping a positive outlook. They are ministering in a powerful and effective way and bringing credit to Lakeside and to the kingdom of God.

Today (Friday) we will be ministering in a refugee camp where people who were displaced by a volcanic eruption are staying. Tomorrow we will minister in an orphanage. Continue praying for our ministry to be effective. So far no one has gotten sick or hurt and energy levels remain high.