Wednesday, April 15th ~ Juarez Project Day 3

                    Wednesday began a little on the shaky side... many in our group were
                     suffering from stomach issues.... We had our morning meeting at the
                     hotel followed by breakfast and then we headed to the plaza where we
                     would be passing out John/Romans to ALL the people passing by...

Liv and Josiah in the background

A glimpse of the street during a slow spell...

                Most of the time there were so many people passing by you couldn't get
                a J/R to everyone...poor Josiah, he was our runner....to the bus to get more
               John/Romans to hand out....he would no sooner get back with a box and we
               would have finished the previous one!...soon he started bringing two!

             There is an interesting story to the above picture~ I'll try to be brief...
             The man in the plaid shirt is a missionary named Blake, he was in a
             conversation with the man in front of him about salvation....he did not
             make a profession but he heard the gospel! Farther back Terry is talking
             to a man (yes, he spoke English!) who was saved but was telling Terry
             about his home life. He was having a hard time making a living, so Terry
             & Blake both gave him a few dollars to buy a bag of candy to sell on the
             street. A little bit later, he came back to show that he did indeed buy candy
             to sell! He even gave them each a piece...

             After we met near the central plaza, Brother Hector had talked to a man
            who had a sound system set up (the man was actually preaching to the
            people sitting around) and he agreed to let us use his system! Pastor
            Marty from CO played his guitar and sang....

           And Brother Hector preached (sorry, no picture). For lunch we headed
          to a different church~ La Esperanza. We were supposed to work with
          this church that evening but the pastor decided to have church instead
          of a meeting in the park. This gave us some time to go back to the hotel
          and rest. Since plans had quickly changed, we went to Pastor Sosa's
          church for their Wednesday night service. It was good for those who were
          a little under the weather. The services were good, some of the group gave
          a testimony and their teens sang a special....

           We were able to get back to the hotel fairly early and since there was a
           Soriana behind it, we decided to go get some ice cream. If you have been
          on the regular trip in the summer, you know that on the long day,Wednesday,
          we usually get taken to a Soriana to be in the A/C and they have an ice cream
          shop in the front of the store.... any way, we took Hector, Ofelia,Sarah, David,
          Trevor, Liv, Erin, Josiah, Fred (from WA), and Nathan (from AZ). We had a
          great time! (Sorry for the poor pic, but you get the idea....)
           

                        It was on to bed from there. We had one more full day to work.