This is the old church building in San Acquino – which looks pretty pathetic but this was the venue through which almost 100 people listened each week to God’s Word, where they heard the Gospel for the first time, and where they started growing in the knowledge of God’s will for their lives and in their desire to serve our Lord Jesus!
But things happened - they outgrew this building, someone stole the tarp off the roof.....
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| But God worked marvelously and provided this beautiful block of land for the believers in San Aquino. And here is their new church building going up – a beautiful solid, building – nestled in a quiet place, near clear running water, close to the village, but enough distance that the noise will not disturb them as they study His Word. This will be the center for their meetings and for their bible studies, for teaching the children, gathering for prayer, discipling groups of women, training new bible teachers – of which there are an abundance of inSan Aquino. The church here is thriving and is very fertile ground for the Word. Already the local church leadership though young in the Lord, are showing remarkable ability to teach and disciple and there is a growing hunger in this place amongst the unbelievers to join this band of believers and to find out what has happened in their lives as there is such evident changes and wonders happening in their lives. God is building His church......not the building but the people......and He is also providing them with infrastructure and buildings needed like this one. San Aquino is about 45 minutes drive from Lapoc on a ROUGH road - it is becoming an outstation of the work here and additional buildings are probably going to be built here as we continue training and sending out teachers (and hopefully missionaries) from there. We are hoping to build more church building like this in other places where the number of believers is growing later on this year. As you can imagine, it is a huge job for Paul, getting the materials together, coordinating the purchasing of and trucking of innumerable loads of cement, roofing material, hardiflex, gravel, sand and on and on. Your prayers are hugely needed...... |
