Contacts

My mom recently reminded me that church planting is a marathon and not a sprint. Good advice. We just need to keep plugging along; judging faithfulness by effort and not results. It is easy to be discouraged when we don't "see" things happening but we KNOW our sovereign God is always at work and it is He who brings the harvest.

The biggest obstacle right now is getting those first few contacts. Once we have a few saved they will lead to multiple other contacts. Being new in the area causes us to start completely from scratch. My neighbor asked me yesterday how our Bible studies are going. I told her slow. She told me that her and her husband were talking about it and it will take time for people to trust us and allow us to teach them. Pray for contacts.

The past 2 days we have had 3 guys here working on our leaky roof. James has talked with them quite a bit and one of them seems interested in the Gospel and the possibility of doing a study. Friday James gave him a tract which he read and then had his wife read. Today he took home another tract and the information about the Bible study. Pray for Alfonso that he and his wife would do the study with James.

And Praise the Lord for this contact!!!