Hola Everyone and Blessing to you,
In February we were blessed to have our own CCM (Adults) come over and do an outreach in a new Colonia "Los Caracoles." After one year having them serve at Colonia Hacienda San Martin, we believed it was time to move on to another Colonia. Yes, we were being blessed with making new friends, seeing and being able to meet some of the needs at Hacienda San Martin, but we believe that the Lord was giving all of us a new direction and confirmation to this new Colonia. So we were excited as we took CCM's group out to Los Caracoles for the first time and it was amazing. We were so blessed to see so many people come out to this outreach, men and women and of course so many childdren.
We set up game booths for all the children and they were having so much fun. The adults were so open at this Colonia to talk to and to share the word of God with and what a blessing to see so many men that came out. At the end of the outreach a local man with his horses was giving rides to several of the sisters in the group for free and so they had fun riding the horses. One young girl from the group shared her experience of how the Lord brought her out of hatred, anger, resentment as she was abused as a young girl by her step father to a life of peace, joy, love and forgiveness as she learned about God and received him as her Lord and savior. Her testimony was powerful and I observed of the adults were so attentive to hear her story. I know that this gave hope to adults that are going to rough situations.
We also were blessed to give out clothes to the adults as well as shoes to the youth. Several people came forward after the invitation was made. It was such a wonderful outreach. You truly felt the Spirit of God there. Praise the Lord!!!
We also had CC Fullerton over with a group of 18 people. We set up to do an outreach here a couple of block down from La Posada at an basketball court. The group was ready to do a puppet skit as well as a drama, crafts, balloons, as well as it was fun to teach a couple do worship songs in spanish for the outreach. We also did some game booths for the chlidren with alot of candy and prizes. The leader of the group (Manuel) preached the message. The group gave out 300 hot dogs, chips, and punch. We then were blessed to give out clothes and bags of rice and beans to the adults. It was a wonderful outreach. Many of the people who came with the group were first timers andd they shared how they heard about their previous trips but as they expierenced it themselves, they now know what a blessing it really is. To exprience it themselves was trully awsome and memorable. They praised God for allowing them to come down ans so do we.
