And let all the people rejoice!

Sunday started early with worship intercessory prayer beginning at 6:30. I love this time of prayer coverage that targets specific prayer for the days worship! Jim spoke a powerful message on forgiveness and grace that truly touched my heart with conviction and repentance. Worship was uplifting, lively and amazingly God honoring. These people are extremely serious about worship and give it 100%. I will greatly miss this worship experience! Mariel gave her testimony at the teen service and touched the hearts of all with her honesty and passion. God was duly glorified through her!

Sunday at 1 p.m. was water baptism! There were 3 women desiring to be buried in baptism with our Lord Jesus, a mother and her two daughters. Our team, Tim, Bambi and several of the teen leaders piled into two vehicles with them and headed for the beach. I have never first hand witnessed a baptism in the ocean. It was awesome and we and the angels were rejoicing! Jim captured the moment on video which I am sure he will share.

We finished in time to get back to the Center for Mission's at 3 p.m. The team divided up and set out with various groups of teens and a few adults to conquer for Christ 17 barangay's (small villages). 70 missionaries were able to personally touch 593 people with the Good News and love of Jesus. What a win!!! :) I went with Tim and Bambi and two young boys (Larry and Russel) to a small mountain village (if you can call it that). I was honored to be the story teller and wowed (or horrified) the kids with my lively rendition of Daniel and his Babylonian capture. Having studied that with our Tuesday ladies group recently, I felt well prepared. The local kids were so sweet and loved to worship, praise and play. They are amazingly smart and were able to answer questions on a level of depth that astounded me. Once again, I am humbled and in awe of the genuine love and commitment to Christ that these people have no matter what age they are.

With the daily rain threatening us, we returned to the center for debriefing with the other teams and praise and worship to God for such an amazing win for God. Exhausted, yet filled with peace and joy that only comes through the touch of God, we returned to Tim and Bambi's for our last night there. Monday we would be checking in to the Sunset Bay Resort (a modest but comfortable local hotel on the beach) for our last two nights. Well, that's all folks! More to come I am sure...

Love to all! Debbie