This past Sunday morning began like any other morning. Around 4:30 we woke up to the sound of blaring pop music in the living room of the home where we live. We cooked oats and eggs and then washed dishes and did laundry. We decided to have our quiet time outside in the barangay multipurpose center mainly because we felt like we needed an opportunity to talk with the priest.
You see, last week we learned that the priest heard that we were staying in the barangay and that he wanted to meet us. So with that news, we wanted to be as available as possible. So call us stalkers, sure… but we had our quiet time where we could clearly view the church.
About that time the priest rode up on his motorcycle. We talked with him and just shared the basic information about where we are from and how long we will be in the Philippines. Then he invited us to mass. So we went! We knew that God was opening doors for us and we needed to take any opportunities that He would give us!
After mass, the priest invited us to lunch. Much to our surprise, he was inviting us to lunch at N.M.’s house. N.M., about one week ago, became a believer and was to be baptized that very afternoon!!
So we had Sunday afternoon lunch with the priest at the home of one of
the new believers that we have been discipling! Talk about bizarre!
After mass we also talked with the man that agreed that salvation was
through faith alone and found out that he is a “faith healer”. So we are going
to spend some extra time this week pursuing sharing Christ with him!!
Later Sunday afternoon we had the opportunity to
baptize one girl from our youth bible study and N.M. that was mentioned
earlier.
Wow. God is good.
In one day God opened doors to share with the barangay
priest and a faith healer. Two women were baptized and we finished the night
off with three bible studies.
Praise God for directing our steps.
Praise God for
opening doors.