What a busy weekend we had! Friday after school we went to a friends house to make decorations for the prison that I work at on Saturdays. We will be having a Christmas party on the 12th of December for the women. Usually we have about 35 or so women who come and that evening we will see about 80 women. It will include a dinner and games with a spiritual message and a small token gift, like a bar of soap. It gives us a chance to reach more women with the message of the Gospel, please pray that their hearts will be open to God's wonderful news for them!My little English speaking group, who are from other countries, is going well. I am starting to get to know them a little better and it has helped me to be able to speak more directly to their hearts! We had a new gal this week from Germany. She is pretty rough looking on the outside but is only 17 years old. Thank you for praying for God's message to penetrate their hearts. It is pretty lonely to be in prison and even more so in a country that is not your own.
Before we even got all the decorations up on the walls someone had stolen part of the scripture and the tape! We at least got up:"for God so loved the world that He sent His only Son so that whoever believed in Him..."
After the prison, Bob picked me up and we went to one of the parks close to our home to join a YWAM group that was interceding for our area of the city. We arrived late and they were just finishing up, but we got to join them in prayer for the churches. They had set up several stations for prayer and went from station to station in the park and prayed as God lead in those areas.The reason for the gathering was the extreme amount of violence and robberies on this sector. Several students from
the school and YWAM missionaries have been robbed and assaulted on the streets. At first YWAM was wanting to move their headquarters to another part of the city but felt the the call was not to more but to pray for God's victory.They had invited several of the area churches to join them but did not have a great response. Pleas pray not only for safety for God's people but for a show of God's power in our midst!
As we were leaving the park Bob could not resist stepping in what we fondly call here"gringo-traps"! They can be found on all the sidewalks and in most of the streets. You can never look up for fear of falling in one and several are very deep! Someone got the great idea of putting this tire in one . Sunday afternoon we went up into the country side to get a view of the city. In typical Costa Rica friendliness we met a nice man who befriended us on the spot. We had a nice chat with him!
