Church of God (Holiness)

Today we had the clinic at Roca de Salvación for the first time! We welcomed people from the community with diverse discomforts, pains, and sicknesses. Dr. Wyant, Crystal, and Valerie helped a lot during this time by being the experts, and the rest of the team helped however was needed. As a team, we did a good job! We thank God for all the people who helped and even those who prayed over the patients. 

So today, before we started our ministry, we made some sandwiches for the people at the hospital we were visiting! Everyone was part of the sandwich assembly line.

Part of our team went to the hospital and got to share with the people there the sandwiches we made for them. As we were handing out something to eat and drink, pamphlets, and praying over those at the hospital we remembered that what we are doing, and the blessings we can bring to others, happens because God did all of that for us first. 

Today we visited some members of our partnering churches and we brought food baskets for them. We got to know more of their lives and testimonies, and we prayed for them. We thank God for the incredible opportunity to share with others a little bit of the blessings we get from Him.

Today, we had over 30 kids at our VBS! God really showed up, and we were thankful to be here and be a light in this community. We had so many beautiful moments with these kids and with the church members. We are excited for tomorrow as it is our last ministry day, and we want to see them coming back! 

Spending time with the children in this community fills our hearts with joy, energy, and laughter. In today’s VBS story, Jesus reminded us how important it is to be like them, no matter how old we get, let’s never lose our childlike heart, our wonder, and our simple, unshakable trust in God.

This morning, we had part of our group working on cleaning the side of the church Roca de Salvación. All of our boys that stayed here were helping and they did a great job! Pastor Cande was happy with the results because it was all cleared out. 

Today God used us to bless El Buen Pastor Church through our medical outreach. It was a very difficult, yet heartwarming experience, where we could share God’s love to the community around the Church. Many lives were changed and blessed, including ours, and all the credit goes to our Lord and savior, the greatest healer, Jesus. May the Lord keep on blessing this community through the Gospel and His people!

Today, we installed insulation in the bathrooms at Pastor Cande's church (Roca de Salvación). Some of the boys from our team helped with this project, and it turned out just fine! Pastor Cande and some brothers from the church also helped, and we had a good time together :)

We had our last day of VBS today! It was good to see that the kids from the community showed up, and God did too. We had so much fun, and we ended our time with a few words from pastor Cande, inviting them to church. God is good!

Spending time with our brothers and sisters in God's presence and just sharing love with one another is such an amazing thing! Honestly, it feels like a little glimpse of what heaven will be like when we are all together one day. BUT it won’t matter where are we coming from, how do we look, or what language do we speak, we will be all together having tons of fun with the Lord!

Today is our rec day! And we are having lots of fun, starting with the zipline. This week we've been so blessed and God gave us so many opportunities to serve, and we are grateful for the opportunity He gave us today to rest and enjoy the beautiful Ensenada. 

Coming to see this natural phenomenon is just an experience you can’t get anywhere else in the world. There’s just something special about having to drive for 40 minutes to get to a place where you have to walk through a bunch of souvenir shops with people shouting at you to get you into their shop and then watching a ocean water blow into the air for a couple seconds…. 

Sooooooo, we had planned a beach stop during rec day. We were not prepared for it to be SO COLDDDDD! Still God is super good and he provided hot springs (yes, naturally heated water at the beach) where we could warm ourselves up a little bit. There was literally no one else at the beach, and the team found one single hot spring, this is how they looked like, EVERYONE IN THAT LITTLE SPOT AT THE SAME TIME. It was fun.

After we finished all our activities for the day, we came back to church to spend the night worshiping and sharing our experience during this week with some of our brothers and sisters from Ensenada. We end our trip feeling so blessed and encouraged by our time here, can’t wait for the team to come back and keep the impact going!