{FECA Vision Choir} Update #7

We had a sumptuous breakfast which took almost two hours (takes a long time for twenty some people to order and get each cooked to order) so we left about noon. After driving for another 3-1/2 hours, we finally arrived at Tetitlan, near Tecpan de Galeana where the church members cooked a scrumptious lunch for us. It is very warm and humid here, nothing like Taxco. What was most amazing is the fruit here, bananas at lease three times bigger than what we see in LA and sweet mangos that rivals Cebu's best mangos. I have not been describing what we have been eating because they are quite different from the LA Mexican food and I don't know their names or how to describe their taste but that they are good. After supper, we sang "Majesty and Glory" to bless this church as we believe praise breaks demonic strongholds. At 5 PM, we divided into groups of three and joined up with their church members to canvas the neighborhood and invite them to the center of town for our meeting tonight, about a 15 minute walk from the church.
We started about 8 PM Mexico time (meaning many minutes after 8) with some of the local worship leaders singing to a large group gathered in the middle of the town. They parked several cars in the middle of the street effectively sealing the square from traffic. It was suppose to be a worship time but was more like solo performances with no one singing. Vision than sang "Take Me to the Water", "Ain't Got Time to Die", and "Jesus, Name Above All Names" and Katie, Natalie and Eugene sang "Restoration". Since we were outdoors and were not mike'd, only those in front heard us clearly. Chris than preached about the Kingdom of God coming down here and invited those who wanted to receive Jesus to come forward and those who wanted to experience healing for ailments to come (since in the Kingdom there is no illness). At least a hundred people came forward. Each Vision person must have prayed for at least 5 people (sometimes two or three of us prayed for one person). Ten year old Josiah and seven year old Jaden were invaluable as translators and even did a lot of praying themselves. Praise The Lord, many, many were healed and when we debrief tomorrow, we will note the more interesting stories. At about 11 PM we returned to the church for a late snack and went to our hosts' home for the evening.
July 17 - Since we did not get to sleep until past midnight, we met at the church for breakfast at 10 AM. Mei and Marshall stayed with 7 girls, Hannah, Elisabeth, Megan, Sam, Rachel, Natalie and Kaitlin with a family with no children and the wife's mother and a cousin. They gave up their "master bedroom", just large enough to fit one king sized bed for us and a room with 5 beds, one king and a double for the seven girls. They have one bathroom, all tiled, and praise God, a toilet WITH toilet seats. Almost every where here, the toilets have no seat. For example, at our quarters in Taxco, 3 of the 4 men's toilets have no seat but the 2 of the working toilets (3 total) in the girls bath have seats. Marshall wanted to donate 3 toilet sets personally to them but the hardware store only had two seats total, and one is the wrong size but at least functional so now the men's side has 3 functional toilets. After breakfast at church, we caught up and did yesterday's devotions on Joshua's trust in God. Then we talked about the meeting and ministry time last night after starting with a little worship.
Chris met a teenage girl who had pain that will move all over her body, and during the prayer, the pain was moving to her legs from her arm. The girl said she is not a Christian so Chris asked a lady from the church to pray for her to become a Christian. She also said she is a bisexual. The sister from church led her to Christ and when Chris prayed, she was completely healed wholly and asserted her womanhood.
A lady asked Hannah to pray for her legs and she was beaming after. She then brought a little boy with thigh pain and after, he was so happy. A bunch of kids came over and Tim, Gentle and Sam prayed for all these kids who were beaming afterwards.
A bunch of us were praying for this older man with knee pain and we prayed and asked him how he was, and he said no. We prayed some more and the man said no. What he actually meant was no pain, not he was not healed. He was just praising God at the end.
A man said he saw Natalie coming to pray for him in a dream.
Elisabeth, Jaden and Marshall prayed for a boy, about ten years old, who had been bitten by a dog and couldn't see well in his left eye. After prayer, he said he saw double. After more prayer, he said it was now single. His dad who brought him was so happy. We prayed for a pre-teen who said he fell and had a lot of chest pain that the doctor could not heal. After prayer, he said he was all well.
Meiring said every time she prays for someone's knees, she feels the knee move and gets healed.
When Jason prayed for people, he would get images that would be confirmed when he asked what the person wanted to be prayed for.
Eugene said he would get heat in his hands and feel so much joy he wanted to dance.
Rachel prayed for a lot of people who walked away praising God.
Israel wasn't sure what to do but prayed anyway and felt God was able to bless. Some of us prayed for a guy who hurt his back, and felt so peaceful that God healed.
Chris encouraged us to testify to what God did when we go home so God can be glorified at home too. Chris said last night, he felt like he was living the Bible. Everyone at the church have been praying for last night and are so thankful. We will be doing this at the same place tomorrow (Thursday) night. We also felt with all the children here, we wanted to do a VBS type program for the children tomorrow afternoon here at church. Chris talked to the church leaders and thy said they will support it and round up the kids. We took a break to work on our old puppet skit in Spanish and plan the VBS program, then did our devotion for today based on Saul's lack of trust in I Sam. 13. Then we left for our venue for tonight.

Here is a picture from the street scene last night during set up time and where we will be tomorrow night.