On the field  Day 5 – support to brothers & sisters

This morning Celine led the STM team morning prayer meeting. We had very good sharing & prayer time.  We praised & thanked Him for His protection, His salvation to those seekers and the encouragement to us and those serving Him here. (Correction : Please note that it’s 7 people came to Christ in Santo Domingo, not 3 as I mentioned in the previous report).

In today’s visitation, we focused more on brothers & sisters to give them support, encouragement & comfort in Christ. There is a young couple in church that brothers & sisters have been worrying about. The wife has been staying in the house not seeing anybody or talking to anyone in church for some time. Before we came to DR, we were informed about the situation and we had been praying for them. We were also told that the husband went to work in San Pedro. When we were San Pedro, we looked for him. Thankfully God led us to a store run by someone who knows him and found out he had already came back to Santiago since he knew the STM team coming. So in the morning prayer meeting, we prayed for the couple. We planned to visit them today but don’t know if they’d open the door for us.

We split into 3 teams. Two teams went to visitation and David & Helen were to see the young couple. We called the husband, but no one answered the phone. Later a brother called us and urged us to visit the couple and advised us no need to call them, just go straight to their house. So we did. We knocked on the door 3 times before the husband open the door. (Meanwhile other teammates were waiting across the street to see if David & Helen would be able to stay with the couple or else join their visitation). David went down the street to give them signals that they could continue with their visitation.  

Helen & David had a very fruitful conversation with the couple. Obviously the Spirit was working in their hearts. We spent 2 hours counseling them and it was worthy because both of them were willing to work on their relationship again. They both promised to come to church tonight for Bible study. PTL for His mercy & grace ! May God’s love continue to fill the gap between them and mend their relationship.

In the evening, we had very good fellowship and Bible study. PTL! The young couple showed up in the meeting. We started with singspiration and icebreaking game and then split into 3 groups. One was for believers, one for seekers, and one for baptismal class.
In the believers group, we emphasized on the importance and explained on the way of devotion with the Lord.

In the seekers group, 2 young men expressed they believed in Christ but because of their parents’ opposition, they couldn’t have the baptism yet. Another person was considering to accept Christ to be her savior. Please pray for them!

In the baptismal group, we clarified a few points with the brother to make sure he understands & accept salvation & baptism and reaffirmed his willingness and readiness to be baptized. Two more sisters wished to be baptized (their mother was baptized yesterday in China). But we still have to work out the day & time for their baptism since they cannot be baptized at the same. Please pray for their faith & spiritual life. The meeting went so fast that we didn’t even realize it’s already 1 a.m. by the time we finished. 

In San Francisco, the team decided to stay there till Friday. They baptized a sister there yesterday. Then in the evening, they had fellowship with the brothers & sisters. They had singing and then group discussion.

We concluded the day with praise & thanks to God for His mercy & grace. Allelujah!