Sunday was an amazing and full day with our team preaching and ministering at seven services! I originally had four, but one dropped off, and Jarred and Daniel had two services each. The morning started early and

Jarred and I left at about 7:15, and Daniel left with Albert’s mom Sonya about at 8:30am.

 

I went to Pastor Edwin Guzmon’s Church in San Marcos. The intense rain never stopped. I was preaching both the 8am and the 10am services. When I arrived, I discovered Pastor Edwin was in the USA and his wife, Pastora Sonya, was in charge.

 

We had a great 8am service with a couple hundred people, with salvation, healing, rededication to the Lord and filling of His Holy Spirit, all part of the altar call. After that service, they took me to a room in the church with 65 refugees from the great rain storm. Many were told to evacuate their homes due to mudslides.

 

They told me of a story of a mother, father, new-born baby and grandmother who were saved from a mudslide taking their home. They had evacuated at 4am that morning and went to the church. Around 6am the grandmother wanted to go back to protect her home. (The poor steal from the poor in a poor country to survive.) But the church pleaded for them not to go home, but eat breakfast first at the church. They went back and forth on this discussion, and finally the family stayed for breakfast served by the church. (I don’t think the family was Christian.) After breakfast, the grandmother went home – but the home was gone, taken by the mudslide!

 

By God’s mercy that family was saved by the church’s insistence on staying for breakfast; otherwise, they would have been destroyed by the mudslide! I bent down on that wet church floor next to a makeshift bed, and spoke and prayed with the family. The mother and dad I think grasped the blessing of being saved from the mudslide, along with their new-born child, who was wrapped in a blanket. But the grandmother could not be consoled. She had lost everything. Who knows the treasures in that house that may have been passed down from her mom or grandparents. So sad. I had to fight back the tears prior to preaching my next service in a few minutes. The face of that grandmother left my emotions rocked. I wanted to hold them and cry with them, but I had to go minister to more hurting people. Sometimes to them it is little consolation that their lives were spared, yet they lost everything. I prayed my heart out before the Lord on their behalf, then left to preach.

 

Sometimes we don’t understand the magnitude of a 10-day rainstorm in a foreign, poor, mountainous country. It is devastating! Loss of homes, lives, crops, income – you name it. It was overwhelming.

 

After regaining composure, I went into the main church service at 10am to minister to another 250 people. Why were they there? They were told by the government and radio/TV to not leave their homes and be on the roads – yet, many still came to church!

 

Well God met scores of people at the altar again and His power was evident. I remember several were healed immediately in the name of Jesus of heavy pain in backs, stomachs and ankles. I remember a man who received clarity in his foggy sight and the look on his face as he looked around after the Lord touched him. So many got their bodies changed by the Lord at this service.

 

Daniel preached at 9am at the House of Prayer (our team’s third time there this week). He reported not only wonderful miracles, but a true bonding occurring between Heart of Titus and the people of this church.

 

Jarred ministered at 9am at one of Pastor Juan Antonio’s church’s – Rosaria Demora’s church. Jarred also reported a great connection between the people of the church and the ministry we bring. I am so proud of Jarred. This was his second time preaching ever, and God was not only using him but moving him more into a greater understanding of the heart of Jesus for His sheep. Jarred observed families taking off their shoes, rolling up pants or dresses and crossing a 12’ stream, just to get into the church.

 

After a quick lunch, we split again into two churches under the oversight of Pastor Juan Antonio. Daniel preached at San Migileto and Jarred preached at Los Planes (Juan Antonio’s main church). I went with Daniel and marvelled at the work the Lord has done in him, as he is being transformed into a mighty minister for the Lord. He showed humility yet walked in the power of Christ.

 

Finally our last service came for the week of ministry. We were in a 4,000-member church at the invitation of Pastor Navas, who interviewed me on his TV station on Thursday of last week. Probably only 250 people were there, due to the rains. We experienced great worship and after I preached the televised service, Jarred and Daniel ministered with me at the altar. God once again touched His people with many signs and wonders. What a great time!