Ministering in Pica

Monday was a long day out in a village called Pica which is a couple of hours out of San Salvador. What a fun day of ministry, even if we were super squashed driving there and even more on the way home (10 people driving there in a car that seats 8 tightly, 11 people on the way home as we picked up the pastor to). We went to the church where we were treated to fresh coconuts courtesy of the pastor. He hacked them open himself with a machete for us to drink and eat them. As soon as I'm able to upload photos I'll upload some pics, it was a lot of fun!

We walked around the village inviting people to a service at 2pm, prayed for people and just hung out with them. It was awesome, this type of thing is the best way to get to know a culture. The church was good as in the beginning the people were really reserved and but by the end after we'd shared the gospel with them and ministered to them you could see a tangible difference in them, a lightness in their spirit and hope in their eyes. There were physical and emotional healings to. I spent most if the service playing with the children outside. So fun, especially hanging out and talking to them. I made a little boy cry because I'm white (he was only a toddler and hasn't seen many white people!) and another little boy wiped his nose in my hair. Gross. Even more gross was the outhouse toilet - a longdrop up 5 stairs (so definitely a throne room) with cockroaches. Both onside and outside the toilet. For real. Even the bonus of having toilet paper there already didn't make up for toilet - I would've preferred to go behind a bush but we were at church so I thought that would be rude.