WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:03.839 Now, this morning we have the gift to hear from one of our missionaries. 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:10.640 So we've been supporting a ministry called Impacto in Guatemala for the 12 years that our church has existed. 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:16.160 And so this morning, Pastor Luise is here and he's going to come and preach and share with us for a little bit. 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:18.480 I have known Luis for 20 years. 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:22.800 Soon as I got out of seminary, the first church that I worked for, we started taking trips down there. 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:25.440 The second church that I worked for, we took trips down there. 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:27.920 And now I'm in the third church that I've worked for. 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:31.039 And so for 20 years, I've been down there 10 different times. 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:33.759 And hopefully, our student ministries are going to be doing trips. 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:36.079 Hopefully, we're going to begin to do more trips. 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:47.600 What I have seen over those 20 years is I have seen consistent gospel proclamation paired with loving people and caring for people. 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:49.840 And it's in this beautiful Lake Adelon. 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:52.799 Here's a picture of Lake Adelon up in the mountains of Guatemala. 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:56.479 Beautiful but very poor area. 00:00:56.799 --> 00:00:58.000 And we went last year. 00:00:58.079 --> 00:00:59.679 Here's a picture of me and my daughter. 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:04.640 We went last year, and then a group's gonna go, student group's gonna go again this year. 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:12.799 What I've realized is we have we've given us as a church, uh, we send money to them every quarter as missions giving. 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:23.760 Uh we've spent time, energy, trips, but I personally have received so much more than anything we have ever given to them. 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:30.719 I always come back from time down there with Pastor Louise or Tony, who runs the ministry down there now. 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:34.560 I feel like I've been on a spiritual retreat myself. 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:42.640 A lot of times in the mornings, the morning devotional, Pastor Louise will get up and he'll say, uh, I have I have a verse for you. 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:46.319 And he he does this because they love the Bible. 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:48.079 They just love the Bible. 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:50.879 And they love Jesus and they love people. 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:53.840 After the service, he's gonna be out in the main lobby. 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:56.239 And I'd love for you to stop by and talk to him. 00:01:56.319 --> 00:02:03.680 If you as an individual or your family is just looking for, hey, we would like to support, we would like to be a part of what's going on down there. 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:09.439 We as a church, we're gonna keep being a part of it, but as well, you as an individual or family could be a part of that as well. 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:13.520 And you can just stop by and meet him, learn a little bit about what they have going on. 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:19.439 I'm gonna pray, and Louise, you can come on up while I'm praying, and he's gonna share and open the scriptures for us. 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:23.919 Heavenly Father, we thank you that we have brothers and sisters all around the world. 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:30.000 We thank you that it is one church, one kingdom that celebrates Jesus. 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:32.319 We thank you for Louise, his ministry. 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:36.080 We thank you for Tony running the ministry down in Guatemala. 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:44.960 Thank you for the work they're doing to educate pastors, to plant churches, to care for children who are hungry, to care for the elderly. 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:47.120 We pray for your continued blessing on them. 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:52.639 We pray this morning, as Luis shares with us, would you open our hearts to what you have for us? 00:02:53.120 --> 00:03:00.560 Remind us how lavishly we are loved by Jesus, and remind us of the great calling that we have in Christ's name. 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:01.280 Amen. 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:24.000 And let me tell you why I say that. 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:25.280 For two reasons. 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:26.800 Maybe three. 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:33.520 Uh one is when he invited me, he gave me a bad news. 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:37.120 He says, but you just have 25 minutes. 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:41.840 That is bad news for me because it is impossible to share everything in the 25 minutes. 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:48.800 But this but the other good thing then he told me, Pastor, I don't want to put you on the spot. 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:51.280 But I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:52.319 I'm sorry. 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:54.560 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:57.039 Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:04.960 But I don't want to put you on the spot, but he says, the second people, the the second service, the people has more energy than the first one. 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:06.960 Yes. 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:14.240 But in my case, I love I I love better the second service because I can go longer. 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:15.840 No, no, no, no, no. 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:19.680 But but anyway, uh, my name is Louis Martinez, yes. 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:25.439 I married to Dinora, um, a wonderful woman that God gave me. 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:31.279 He she loves the Lord with all her heart, and and God gave us two daughters. 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:37.600 But um my real part of my testimony uh started before I got married. 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:58.079 Um I have we have uh five grandchildren, and um before I got married, I dedicated my life to the Lord, and I says, okay, I'm ready to go to the seminary, and uh God allowed me to go for many years to seminary to get all my degrees. 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:00.000 But yeah, I love the Bible. 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:03.759 I love I love God's God's word, and I love to teach that. 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:08.480 But anyway, before I go there, says, God, I am ready to be a missionary. 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:10.079 But do you know what, God? 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:14.480 I want for you to send me to the Mayan people in my country. 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:17.040 I love I love my Ma the Mayan people. 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:18.399 I grew up in the city. 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:26.160 We are no Mayans, but the Mayan, the real Mayan, 100% Mayans, and some of the villages they don't speak Spanish. 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:31.360 We have 23 different uh Mayan languages in Guatemala, 23 tribes. 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:35.279 And I I start thinking, and the Sutuhilas. 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:38.879 Sotujil, they speak Sotujil language. 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:48.319 Um, well, I went to the seminary, I'm thinking, and I'm going to the Mayan, to the Mayan people, to the to the mountains in Guatemala. 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:52.720 Well, uh, have you have you read in the book of Proverbs? 00:05:52.879 --> 00:06:00.480 And the book of Proverbs says uh men do their own plans, but God moves those plants wherever he wants. 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:09.360 You better ask God when you're making plans because he is going to move your plants wherever he wants for your good. 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:13.680 Always for your good, because he's a good God. 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:19.920 And when I say to the Mohamptons, he says, not for now, Luis. 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:22.959 Now I'm going to send you to a different direction. 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:24.720 And I married Deonora. 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:30.000 When we married Deonora, we apply to be a missionary with global partners. 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:33.199 It's a huge mission organization. 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:35.360 And they have a policy. 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:41.040 And their policy is they never send missionaries to their own country. 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:45.279 Uh, this is why they say we need to send you to another country. 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:46.639 And guess what? 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:50.560 They send me, uh it sounds kind of weird to you, maybe. 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:52.560 Missionaries to America. 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:53.920 Have you heard that? 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:55.600 Missionaries to America. 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:01.439 They think America can be the third largest mission field in the world. 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:02.720 Do you know why? 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:09.439 Because 30 this month would be 30 years when we came to America with zero English. 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:11.199 Not English English at all. 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:17.519 Oh, actually, if I can open a parenthesis, uh, I don't want to offend, but this is a real story thing. 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:22.240 My brother, he used to be a pastor, but now he's in heaven. 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:29.680 He went to uh he married a lady from England, and this is why my nephew's first language was English. 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:30.319 Okay? 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:33.680 And uh, and I got one of these nephews. 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:42.480 Uh when I told them that we are moving to America, he says, Uncle Luis, uh, before you go to America, you need to um to learn some expressions. 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:44.959 But I don't trust this guy very well. 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:47.839 But but he started with a good one. 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:54.240 And the very last day at the air at the airport, the very last day he says, Uncle Luis, uh, zero English. 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:55.759 Remember, nothing English. 00:07:55.920 --> 00:08:03.360 He says, when you're going to meet to meet a person for the very first time, you will say, How are you, Redneck? 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:06.319 And and I did. 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:09.519 I did with the pastor in Virginia. 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:10.399 Yes. 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:15.360 But anyway, you you have to pay the price when you learn a different language. 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:28.879 But anyway, and yes, in that time when we came 30 years ago, it was 31 million Spanish-speaking people in this country, and 3% of them they were believers. 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:44.320 And today, 30 years later, there is 62 million Spanish-speaking people in your country, which is a mission field, and just 4.5 of them, they are believers in Jesus Christ. 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:46.080 We need missionaries too. 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:54.240 And I I I am just talking about the Spanish-speaking people, but how about the other people from Europe, from Russia? 00:08:54.320 --> 00:09:07.759 Uh, you have uh, according to the statistics and internet, you have 26 million people from Russia here, and 0.5% of them are believers. 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:09.759 And well, we came. 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:16.159 We came to Guatemala, to America, and miracles, uh, we start seeing miracles. 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:22.080 11, 12 months after that, we got our American citizenship. 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:27.600 We have all the American papers, uh, we are Americans in papers, we have the American passport. 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:51.679 I still waiting for blue eyes, maybe one day, but uh uh I don't know, but then maybe heaven, but uh my wife, because we were in Fredericksburg, Virginia, maybe some of you know Fredericksburg, Virginia, beside I-95, uh 47 miles south from Washington, DC, my wife got a wonderful job in Washington. 00:09:51.919 --> 00:10:02.799 And she used to be the personal assistant of the general, the global director of World Hope International. 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:09.519 That means then my wife travels all over in Africa and in Europe and many other countries with her, with Dr. 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:12.960 Joan Lyon, and something starts happening with us. 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:21.279 We start thinking, um an expression, American expression that means a lot to you. 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:23.039 Comfort zone. 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:27.279 Yeah, I know that comfort zone. 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:31.440 What is the do you know what is my favorite thing in the comfort zone and here in the States? 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:34.399 To walk barefoot in a carpet. 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:35.440 I love it. 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:38.080 I love it, I love that. 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:40.240 And my room has a carpet. 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:41.519 Thank you for that. 00:10:41.679 --> 00:11:00.639 Yeah, and uh, but anyway, we start we start building a comfort zone because my wife has a wonderful salary, excellent salary, and and because and my salary, and because that we were able to buy a beautiful house in Fredericksburg. 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:04.559 And we says, okay, America is going to be the last step in our lives. 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:14.240 We are going to die in America, we are going to do all social security, all these things that America offered, uh, Medicare, do you know? 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:18.799 And well, we are going to finish our lives in America. 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:21.919 We we were established in America and we were well. 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:30.159 Well, there is an expression in Spanish that you don't have in English, but maybe that makes sense to you. 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:35.759 And the expression is you can take the monkey from the jungle, but never the jungle from the monkey. 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:37.600 It makes sense to you. 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:39.759 I was the monkey. 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:44.480 And the jungle were and the Mayan people was my jungle. 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:46.960 They never took the jungle from my heart. 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:47.679 Never. 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:56.799 That means then every year in my 25 years in Virginia, every year I took a medical team to Guatemala. 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:02.720 Sometimes one, sometimes twice, sometimes three, four, five medical teams a year. 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:14.000 Because I love, I yes, I God allowed us to start three churches, Spanish churches, and all of them are growing beautiful. 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:21.679 And one actually, the second one that we started in our second anniversary, we got 214 people. 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:27.600 God was doing doing a wonderful thing among the Spanish-speaking people. 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:30.799 But my heart was in the mansion in Guatemala. 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:41.360 And I and well, 18 years ago, men do plans, but God moves those plans wherever he wants. 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:43.600 God changed my entire life. 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:52.240 Dinora never came to Guatemala with me, uh, with these mission teams, medical teams, because she was working in Washington. 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:58.240 But I took my two daughters because my two daughters came to this country when they were six and seven. 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:04.639 That means then they did all the elementary school, junior high, high school, college. 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:17.759 Um my oldest uh did uh um special need education psychologist, I don't know, that thing, but she graduated from that. 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:33.519 And my youngest uh she went a little longer because she fell in love with uh biblical education and she got her doctoral degree, and she's teaching now in Indiana, wasn't university with her husband, but she never back to Guatemala. 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:42.399 But anyway, and uh I and I took my two daughters every summer to help me as a translator because they are perfect bilingual. 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:52.320 And um 17 years ago, I got a medical team, and we provide worms, worms medicine to the children in the mountains. 00:13:52.559 --> 00:14:06.799 Let me tell you, the news says this area in Guatemala is the third place and the worst attack malnutrition in the country. 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:12.639 Many children died every every year because of malnutrition thing and the very top of the mountains. 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:17.360 And we were there, and um the doctors provided worms medicine. 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:19.360 Five minutes later, I never seen that. 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:30.559 We have pictures, we never seen those pictures, we never show those pictures by respect, but we uh by five minutes later, we saw the worms coming through the nose and through the ears. 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:38.799 And two days later, um my daughter's friend, Jose, 12 years old, he passed away because of worms attack. 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:48.159 And Andrea, my oldest, came to me and said, Daddy, I will pray then you don't necessarily sleep well until you decided to do something for these kids. 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:50.559 Daddy, it's not internal. 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:53.120 That it's not a cancer. 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:55.279 She was crying and crying and crying. 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:57.759 Dad, it is something that we can do. 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:00.639 That happened 18 years ago. 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:06.240 And in that time, they didn't have access to doctor or to the medicine. 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:09.519 The nearest doctor was six hours away from them. 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:12.159 Not now anymore, praise God for that. 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:19.039 But in that time, yes, people were dying because of worms attack, because of malnutrition, because that kind of thing. 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:22.960 And Andrea says, I am very positive, that you can do something for them. 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:26.559 But Andrea, we we are established in America already. 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:31.440 Next week. 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:33.200 She told me that many years ago. 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:36.480 And she says, and do you know, do you know already, mama? 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:38.559 Mama told you all this already? 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:39.600 What, Andrea? 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:44.159 I have an I had a job offer, you say? 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:47.840 Job offer with$42 an hour. 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:51.759 And I says, You made it! And she says, No. 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:59.440 Daddy, and these five years in college, God taught me that he didn't send me to this world to make money. 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:04.879 He showed me that he sent me to help people, and this is what I want to do the rest of my life. 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:07.519 And he says, Okay, what I what do you want to do? 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:09.440 Send me to San Juan. 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:11.519 Are you sure, Andrea? 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:16.240 More than 80% of her life in this country. 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:17.440 Says, yes. 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:20.159 Who how who's going to support you? 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:22.720 And she says, that is not your problem, Dad. 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:23.919 It's his problem. 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:27.600 Because he's calling me, he's going to support me. 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:33.600 And Dinora, my wife says, You better give it give it to the Lord. 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:34.879 Give her to the Lord. 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:36.480 Because he she wants to do it. 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:38.240 Well, I took her. 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:44.080 When I came back, I says, honey, I think we need to talk. 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:45.919 And she says, What? 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:50.960 Honey, let me tell you, you need to know this context. 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:54.399 She loves with all her heart this country. 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:55.679 Oh my goodness. 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:58.879 She put so deep roots in this country. 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:00.720 She loved the comfort zone. 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:02.799 She loved to drive the beautiful car. 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:05.119 She loved all her office. 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.799 She loves all this American thing. 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:12.799 Honey, can you consider after 25 years? 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:15.359 Can you consider to go back to Guatemala? 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:18.720 We grew up in the city, but not to the city. 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:21.279 To the mountains, with the mountains? 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:24.319 And she says, don't even think about it. 00:17:24.960 --> 00:17:25.279 Okay. 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:31.759 Honey, uh, can you please, Alice, can you can you pray about it? 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:34.319 And she says, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I can do that. 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:36.880 I'm pretty sure then Jesus is going to say no. 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:40.720 I says, okay. 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:44.640 Uh honey, uh, can we make a deal in here? 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:52.000 If you promise me to keep praying about it, I promise to you I will never talk to you about this object. 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:52.640 Okay? 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:53.519 Deal? 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:54.559 Give me fire. 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:55.519 Give you a deal. 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:56.000 Okay. 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:06.960 Eleven months later, she came back home from job and she says, Are you still thinking in those little ones and the mountains? 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:07.920 Oh yeah. 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:09.839 I still think in those. 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:11.200 They are in my heart. 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:13.680 And she says, I have a peace nail. 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:16.319 I present my resignation this morning. 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:18.960 That means then no more salary next month. 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:21.359 She says, No, no more salary next month. 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:22.400 Okay. 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:37.119 And I call my boss, my boss, and says, hey, and I share with him my dream, and she says, and he says, I'm sorry, Luis, I told you before, we don't send missionaries to their own country. 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:45.039 I can send you to South America if you want, Peru, Colombia, wherever, but not to Guatemala. 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:51.839 In this case, please accept my resignation because I think God is calling me to something different. 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:54.720 And he says, You have my blessing, Lucy. 00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:57.920 Please obey God, wherever He's calling to go. 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:03.440 Well, and 40 days we sold the house, we sold the cars, we sold everything. 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:11.440 We took seven pieces of luggage and moved to the mountains, Guatemala, and a very small room half like this. 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:17.279 And because we didn't have too much money, I I bought those falling beds. 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:19.599 You say cats, maybe, I think. 00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:20.880 The camping beds. 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:30.720 See, and we remember the big rats running under knee cats, and we start feeding seven kids every day from our pockets. 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:32.400 And guess what? 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:36.240 Because 20 minutes, I think. 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:49.279 Um because the time it's a long story, but make it short, praise God, until today, we got 422 kids every day. 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:51.680 Coming, every day, coming. 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:54.079 To God be the glory, amen. 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:59.920 And my daughter Andrea says, I got the name for that ministry, Daddy. 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:00.880 And what is the name? 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:02.319 Happy Tommies. 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:07.759 And because there is a lot of sad Tommies in the mountains, and we call happy Tommies. 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:09.680 And people love happy Tommy. 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:11.119 That is happy Tommy's. 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:13.359 People love that ministry. 00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:14.720 It's a beautiful ministry. 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:16.160 They come after school. 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:19.119 School in Guatemala starts from 7 a.m. 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:23.680 and goes through 11:30 noon p.m. 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:32.000 And children come to our Happy Tummies around 1 and they leave Happy Thomas until 4 o'clock. 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:32.640 Why? 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:38.240 Because we serve a nutrition delicious lunch every single day. 00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:43.119 We teach a real Bible story, not any Bible story. 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:50.640 Actually, Tony and all the Happy Tommy's personnel, because now we have seven Happy Tommies in different villages. 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:57.200 And Tony sit down with them, my son-in-law, and he and he says, Hey guys, we are going to teach the world. 00:20:57.279 --> 00:20:59.440 Because I told Tony, Tony, I'm very sorry. 00:20:59.599 --> 00:21:06.880 Andrea, don't say that I am mean, but the Tommy is not priority number one for me. 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:09.519 The heart is priority number one. 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:12.240 Because we need to tell these children about Jesus. 00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:14.720 We need to tell these parents about the Lord. 00:21:14.799 --> 00:21:20.640 And do you know what happened when and our second happy Tommies? 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:26.720 A pastor, we bring, we brought the pastor, and the pastor started the happy tummies with 50 kids. 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:32.720 He connected with 50 kids plus the parents of the kids, and the church just exploded. 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:41.440 Let me tell you, in the last five and a half years, God allowed us to start 18 brand new churches for his glory. 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:47.119 Brand new churches, brand new people, people that came to the Lord through Happy Tommy's. 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:53.200 That means when you sponsor a child in Happy Tommy's, you don't sponsor just a child happy Tommy's. 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:59.839 You sponsor the possibility, the big potential to start a brand new church through Happy Tommy's thing. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:00.799 Do you know what? 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:03.279 Happy Thomas is not the final thing. 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:05.039 It's one of the steps to God. 00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:10.960 The final dream is to bring people to Christ through Happy Thomas. 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:14.960 And I really want to ask you to pray. 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:18.160 I don't know if I told you in the beginning. 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:21.119 I'm coming from a Christian home. 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:26.799 All my brothers and sisters, we are full-time in the ministry with brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law. 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:30.960 My dad is going to be 106 and six months. 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:34.400 And he started 53 churches in his life. 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:36.960 He believes in multiplication. 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:40.880 He always believes and says, healthy church needs to multiply. 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:42.559 Healthy church needs to multiply. 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:45.039 And praise God, 18 churches already. 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:46.160 And guess what? 00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:55.039 And the next two months, yeah, in the next two months, we are going to open our Happy Tom is number eight in Santa Clara. 00:22:55.200 --> 00:23:03.920 That means uh Pastor Julian, he has kind of 80 kids in the list already in Mansons in Santa Clara. 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:07.759 But in six months, we are going to open our number nine. 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:08.640 Guess where? 00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:09.680 Where? 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:13.759 And the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa. 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:16.079 Do you know what is the name of that country? 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:18.720 Equatorial Guinea. 00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:23.599 Yes, we were, we were, we went with Tony uh two months ago. 00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:26.480 And we sit down with a good friend of mine. 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:32.000 He is one of the highest authority in the evangelical churches in Equatorial Guinea, Dr. 00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:33.200 Damien Azumu. 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:33.920 And Dr. 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:36.720 Damien calls us and says, can you please come? 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:38.960 And there is a communist country. 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:46.160 I can't give you more information about that for security purposes, but it's a communist country. 00:23:46.319 --> 00:23:47.519 They don't have internet. 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:55.440 They have internet, but they don't have an access to uh YouTube, Facebook, something like that. 00:23:55.599 --> 00:23:56.480 Just WhatsApp. 00:23:56.640 --> 00:23:58.720 And we call by WhatsApp, and Dr. 00:23:58.880 --> 00:24:01.839 Damien says, please come and help us, please come and help us. 00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:02.559 Do you know? 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:13.920 I started a Bible institute in Guatemala because my biggest passion is to teach the Bible, to teach people how to teach others and send people to start churches and evangelism. 00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:23.839 And but the problem in the mountains is I would say 90% of my students and the Bible Institute in Guatemala, they never finish high school. 00:24:24.079 --> 00:24:30.000 And I would say 70% of them never finish sixth grade at elementary school. 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:40.960 That means that they say we want to learn, but there is no Bible institute in Guatemala and the whole country that accept us because with our low, very low education. 00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:42.480 He says, Oh, I'm here. 00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:44.400 And this is why God sent me here. 00:24:44.559 --> 00:24:48.799 That was that is exactly the thing that I was looking for. 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:54.000 The opportunity to teach people that they don't have opportunities to do it. 00:24:54.079 --> 00:24:55.440 And I started the now. 00:24:55.680 --> 00:25:00.079 We have 127 students in the Bible Institute in Guatemala. 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:03.200 But when I came to Africa two months ago, Dr. 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:10.880 Damien, I present 10 different ministries than we do in Guatemala, that I don't have time to share with you because it's 25 minutes. 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:14.079 But uh and Dr. 00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:16.720 Damien says, Do you know, Pastor? 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:22.640 I says, okay, what is your priority number two of these 10 ministries that I present to you? 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:23.920 And he says, two. 00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:27.759 Okay, tell me, Bible Institute. 00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:31.759 Yes, yes, we can help with Bible Institute. 00:25:31.839 --> 00:25:32.559 Do you know what? 00:25:32.720 --> 00:26:01.119 We we can hide some uh student uh textbook, you say textbook that we use in Guatemala with our students, and we can bring at least three or four teachers' books, and we can stay, we're we're planning to stay for one week and a half to train every single day at least from eight to four, to train three or four leaders to be the teachers of the Bible Institute in Africa. 00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:03.039 But also, what is the second one? 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:04.960 And he says, Happy Tommies. 00:26:05.519 --> 00:26:10.400 Please, can uh people are dying in Africa because of the malnutrition, too. 00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:13.039 And can you please start happy tummies with us? 00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:16.880 I says, we can find fish because they are beside the water. 00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:18.319 We can find fish. 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:21.839 I'm sorry, we can find monkey. 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:27.119 They eat a lot of monkey, but we can find that, but it's very expensive. 00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:31.200 Fish and monkey and iguana, very, very expensive. 00:26:31.519 --> 00:26:36.799 But he says, Well, I don't promise anything, but I promise to knock doors. 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:38.960 I am here to ask you to help me. 00:26:39.359 --> 00:26:42.079 Yeah, I'm here to ask you to help me. 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:52.160 Uh a friend of mine says, ask equal humbleness, don't ask equal pride. 00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:58.000 And I am asking you because I can't do it by myself. 00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:15.440 But if you want to sponsor, that means then with the new Happy Tummies and the Mantis in Guatemala in two months, Pastor Julian, plus the Happy Tommies in Africa, we have a list already the names of 119 children waiting for a sponsor. 00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:27.920 If you want to sponsor one of them with$35 a month, please come to my table and pick up one of the prayer cards, Happy Thomas Prayer Card, and you can sponsor your. 00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:33.759 Oh, I have the this is the Happy Thomas prayer card. 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:42.000 When you come to my table, because I am myself today, take this part, this picture, take it with you. 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:43.440 I am prepared. 00:27:43.599 --> 00:27:44.799 I have a magnet. 00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:54.559 You can put this magnet in the fridge with the picture, and everything, every time when you're hungry and ready to eat something, pray for those sad Tommies in Guatemala. 00:27:54.720 --> 00:28:00.480 But this part, take it away, put your name, your email address, your mailing address. 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:01.119 Why? 00:28:01.440 --> 00:28:17.519 Just to put your name in the in our database, and twice a month, twice a month, we are going to send you an e-letters to with pictures in it to tell you how the children are doing and how all the ministries are doing, and that kind of things. 00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:21.279 And please visit my table. 00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:28.400 And Dinora, my wife, says, honey, how we can empower the mamas of happy Tommies. 00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:31.279 Because very, very poor. 00:28:31.440 --> 00:28:33.599 And she says, Do you know what? 00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:41.920 Uh how about if we ask the churches that support us and the states if she if they want to donate a sewing machine? 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:43.680 Because she loves to sew. 00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:49.839 And I says, I can teach them how to sew, and maybe they can help their husbands with a little extra income. 00:28:50.079 --> 00:28:51.359 And guess what? 00:28:51.599 --> 00:29:01.839 Now, every year, every single year, we start with 30 machines, all the machines are the same, of course, to teach in the class with 30 women. 00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:13.839 15 of them are believers, 15 of them no believers, but we have seen many of them coming to the Lure and each class, and Dinora teaches some machine classes from January to October. 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:27.200 If they finish okay, all the projects and everything, uh we have a ceremony thing, graduation ceremony, and we give them the diploma, but also the machine for free. 00:29:27.279 --> 00:29:28.160 They take home. 00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:32.400 In January, we start with a brand new 30 machines again. 00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:36.720 And that is another opportunity, and another 30 women too. 00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:38.480 But we have a lot of ministries. 00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:40.480 We have the abuelitos too. 00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:44.960 I don't know if you do you understand abuelitos, uh, grandparents? 00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:49.119 Uh, these grandparents, uh, Mayan, they don't speak Spanish. 00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:54.079 Their own family keep them out from their house and they don't have a place to eat. 00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:59.680 And this is why, uh, like my dad, he says, I don't like to see empty buildings, guys. 00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:01.119 Let's do something else. 00:30:01.279 --> 00:30:03.039 Well, children come some noon. 00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:06.960 How about the abuelitos comes around 9:30 for breakfast? 00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:10.720 And we have 165 abuelitos now. 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:14.160 And 100% of them, they are not believers. 00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:18.720 They practice the I don't want to offend with this, but it's true. 00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:21.920 If you want to ask me after service, it's okay. 00:30:22.240 --> 00:30:38.559 Catholic mixed with Mayan religion, they sacrifice roosters inside the Catholic Church and they smoke a big cigar and they dance around this rooster and they drink the rooster blood and that kind of things. 00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:40.400 None of them are believers. 00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:45.920 But I says, God, guys, God didn't call us to convert people. 00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:59.039 God called us to send the message to their ears, from my mouth to their ears, and the Holy Spirit is going to bring the message from their ears to the heart. 00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:02.640 Do you have your Bibles with you today? 00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:08.559 I let me finish with one of my favorite stories in the Bible, 2 Kings chapter 6. 00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:11.279 2 Kings chapter 6. 00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:16.880 And I will start with verse 24, and because we don't have too much time, I'm not going to read it. 00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:20.079 I'd rather to memorize the scripture. 00:31:20.319 --> 00:31:38.480 And as starting in verse 24, it says uh Benadad, king of uh Syria, Syria, uh collect all his army, and he says, we are going up, guys, and to kill the Sumerians. 00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:42.640 But we are going to use, uh I told them at the First Service this. 00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:44.559 There is words in English. 00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:48.960 Pronunciation in English is a pain. 00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:52.400 Pronunciation. 00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:58.480 Somebody told me that English is a heavenly language, and it's because it takes an eternity to learn it. 00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:07.200 But one word that I am very sure that I will never, never learn how to say. 00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:09.519 Strategy. 00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:12.640 I don't know how to say that word. 00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:14.240 Whatever he says. 00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:19.920 The king says, guys, we are going to use a new strategy. 00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:20.640 Thank you. 00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:21.359 Yes. 00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:26.240 And we are not going to use the weapons to kill them. 00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:30.720 We are going to surround the city and kill them by hunger. 00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:34.799 And 20, well, nobody can come in into the city. 00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:37.200 If somebody tried to come in, kill him. 00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:40.160 If somebody tried to go out, kill him. 00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:52.559 That means then in 2025 days, they will going to start very weak, weak, weaker, weaker, weaker, and we just jumped, killed them, and got everything from the city. 00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:53.599 We'll be easy. 00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:54.799 Relax, guys. 00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:56.640 All these soldiers around. 00:32:56.960 --> 00:32:57.279 Okay? 00:32:58.000 --> 00:32:59.039 And what happened? 00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:03.759 I think verse 25 says that it was a big famine in the city. 00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:10.720 That the donkey's head was solid for 80 shekels of silver. 00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:11.920 A donkey's head. 00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:14.799 Why did they they didn't want the donkey's head? 00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:16.000 To eat it. 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:18.480 Because no more food in the city. 00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:20.400 But that wasn't the words. 00:33:21.359 --> 00:33:26.640 Listen, verse 26, I think it is, it says five ounces. 00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:31.359 This morning I asked permission to say this word. 00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:38.720 Five ounces of dove's poop for five shekels of silver. 00:33:39.039 --> 00:33:44.880 Why didn't one dov's doves poop to eat it? 00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:50.160 Can you imagine the little ones coming to mama and say, Mama, mama, I'm hungry? 00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:54.160 And mama says, I'm sorry, honey, we have nothing to eat today. 00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:55.119 Open your mouth. 00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:57.200 I just have a doves dunk. 00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:01.279 It's a real story. 00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:08.400 Don't believe all those preachers, then this then they say, Oh, it is a symbolism. 00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:11.440 No, this this thing is not a symbolism. 00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:12.079 No. 00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:14.159 It that happened. 00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:16.639 But that wasn't the worst. 00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:17.840 Eating poop. 00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:18.480 No, no. 00:34:18.639 --> 00:34:20.239 The worst is coming. 00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:22.960 Verse 28, I think it is. 00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:39.760 It says, one lady was crying and crying and crying so loud that she saw the king passing in one of the walls, and she started calling the king, help me, help me, my king, my lord, help me, help me, please help me. 00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:41.119 Crying, crying, crying. 00:34:41.280 --> 00:34:43.599 And he says, What is going on with you? 00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:47.440 And she says, I have a situation here with my neighbor. 00:34:47.599 --> 00:34:55.760 She came yesterday to my house and she says, Give up your boy, your little boy today, and we can eat your boy today. 00:34:55.920 --> 00:34:58.719 And tomorrow we are going to eat my boy. 00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:06.719 And yesterday we killed my boy, and we took his legs, arms, and we ate my boy with the between the two families. 00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:10.639 And now she has guided her boy, and that is not fair. 00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:14.719 Can you see that? 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:22.480 And because I recommend to you, because I don't have time, to read the story before you go to bed tonight. 00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:25.119 Let's finish your story, Second Kings. 00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:30.000 But let me go to the end of the story, chapter 7 and verse 3. 00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:37.119 It says that they were four guys with leprosy and outside of the city. 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:42.159 And they four guys with leprosy, they were Samerians. 00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:55.679 And they were so hungry, waiting for families to come with food, but they couldn't because the enemies around the city and they were dying by hunger. 00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:59.119 And they said, guys, we are going to die here. 00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:03.920 If we try to go into the city, there is nothing in the city. 00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:05.519 They are eating each other. 00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:07.519 They are eating poop. 00:36:08.239 --> 00:36:09.360 There is nothing. 00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:12.239 If we stay here, we are going to die. 00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:13.920 There is no food in here. 00:36:14.159 --> 00:36:19.360 The only chance that we have is how about if we go to the enemy's camp? 00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:24.559 If they have mercy on us, we are going to survive. 00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:28.079 If they're going to kill us, we are going to die anyway. 00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:30.800 Let's go to the enemy's camp. 00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:31.679 And they did. 00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:35.199 They start walking, the four of them started walking to the enemy's. 00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:37.760 And God performed a miracle that day. 00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:39.840 Hey church, let me ask you this. 00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:42.880 Do you believe in miracles? 00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:46.079 Amen? 00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:48.239 Amen is not a bad word. 00:36:48.320 --> 00:36:49.440 You can say the man. 00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:53.280 I believe in miracles. 00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:56.239 I have seen many, many, many miracles. 00:36:57.360 --> 00:37:02.800 But what what what what what was that miracle that day? 00:37:03.199 --> 00:37:06.800 God sent noises to the enemy's camp. 00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:08.239 What kind of noises? 00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:19.440 The Bible says, and the enemies heard and they say to each other, hey guys, listen, the king of Israel, he put together all the armies around. 00:37:19.679 --> 00:37:22.079 And can you hear the chariots coming? 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:31.440 The horses, thousand horses, and can you hear the soldiers louding and they are gonna kill us like our ants? 00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:32.960 Get out from here. 00:37:33.119 --> 00:37:36.159 And they left the camp. 00:37:36.480 --> 00:37:39.679 What happened with the four guys with leprosy got the camp? 00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:41.119 Nobody was there. 00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:47.360 And they opened the first tent and says, Oh my goodness. 00:37:47.679 --> 00:38:01.440 They were bread, food, wine, cheese, gold, silver, and they jump in the first tent and they ate and ate and ate and ate and ate. 00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:04.719 And they jump in the second tent and they did the same thing. 00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:08.159 And they jumped in the third tent and they seem did the same thing. 00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:17.519 And the Bible says in the third tent they opened four holes in the ground and start bringing all kinds of goodies to hide in the ground. 00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:26.000 Gold, silver, many other things, and they found, and but let me finish my story in verse 9. 00:38:26.159 --> 00:38:27.920 And verse 9 is very important. 00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:29.360 Very, very important. 00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:37.920 And then they say to one another, guys, we are not doing good. 00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:39.519 We're not. 00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:42.719 Because today is a day of good news. 00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:47.519 If we keep it to ourselves, punishment is going to take over us. 00:38:47.840 --> 00:38:51.360 Let's go at once and give the news to the king and the city. 00:38:51.599 --> 00:38:54.480 Because our families, they are eating poop. 00:38:54.639 --> 00:38:56.000 They are eating each other. 00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:58.480 And we are eating here delicious. 00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:00.800 No, that is not right. 00:39:01.360 --> 00:39:03.679 Let's go at once and give the news. 00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:10.480 And the Bible says then don't don't get that they didn't give the news and this way. 00:39:10.639 --> 00:39:12.960 Hey, there is no more enemies around. 00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:13.440 No. 00:39:13.920 --> 00:39:21.039 The Bible says that they cried, hey guys, there is no more enemies. 00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:22.639 Good news. 00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:24.639 The Bible says that. 00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:30.239 Listen, with all my respect to you, it is my first time in this church. 00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:36.639 Pastor Russ, God is the goodness of this. 00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:39.199 He never told me nothing about you. 00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:47.840 But I compare these four good these four guys with leprosy with the general church, the Christian church in the world. 00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:51.679 What is my comp comparison between these two? 00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:57.920 Well, I says every Sunday you come to this beautiful church and you sit down in those chairs. 00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:04.079 And Pastor Ross, I'm pretty sure that he spent hours to prepare a good sermon. 00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:08.000 And please let me know if that ever happened to you guys. 00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:18.559 After service, you go to the parking lot and you start your car and you turn your head, tell your wife, your husband, wherever, and you say, It was a good service today. 00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:20.400 That ever happened to you? 00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:27.280 Because it was a good music, it was a good sermon, and you're full spiritually, and you said, What a wonderful service. 00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:32.800 And you come back the following Sunday and you sit down again and you eat and eat again. 00:40:33.039 --> 00:40:42.639 Pastor Ross gives you to eat from God's word and another good service and another good service and another good service, and you go home and come back, go home and come back. 00:40:42.800 --> 00:40:44.000 But do you know what? 00:40:44.719 --> 00:41:00.880 People around you, they are eating poop spiritually, drugs, pornography, unfaithfulness, alcohol, illegal sex. 00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:04.639 They are eating dung. 00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:07.679 And we have the good news, guys. 00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:13.440 I I will ask you to be courageous and open your mouth in Walmart. 00:41:13.599 --> 00:41:15.039 Why not in Walmart? 00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:17.280 Do it in the gas station. 00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:19.519 Hey, do you know Jesus? 00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:21.199 He loves you. 00:41:21.519 --> 00:41:23.840 And the bank with the lady. 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:27.360 Hey, I just want to live with you a verse. 00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:29.679 God loves you. 00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:31.360 Things like that. 00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:33.599 Says, I want to invite you to my church. 00:41:33.679 --> 00:41:36.480 This is the thing that I do in San Juan, in the village. 00:41:36.719 --> 00:41:51.920 My dad is 106, and he loves to go to the, you say to the deck to see the boats and the beach, and I pull him with the wheelchair, and every single person, really, really, that say goodbye. 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:55.440 I says, hey, do you have any plans for this coming Sunday? 00:41:55.760 --> 00:41:56.079 No. 00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:57.119 Do you know what? 00:41:57.280 --> 00:41:59.119 My church started at 5 o'clock. 00:41:59.280 --> 00:41:59.920 Please come. 00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:05.360 We have a wonderful music, wonderful sermon, because I have a pastor. 00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:07.440 Let me tell you. 00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:10.000 The best preacher. 00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:14.880 And my every single Sunday, first row with my wife. 00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:20.159 Because I love to eat, to eat, to eat God's word every Sunday, every Sunday, every Sunday. 00:42:20.239 --> 00:42:25.039 And every single person in the street says, Do you have any plans for Sunday afternoon? 00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:28.559 My my church starts in San Juan at 5 o'clock p.m. 00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:31.840 Because it is the cultural, a Mayan cultural. 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:34.159 Everybody goes to the market in the morning. 00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:37.679 And this is why not churches in the morning, just in the afternoons. 00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:41.360 But everybody and people come. 00:42:41.760 --> 00:42:43.199 Just open your mouth. 00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:47.920 Just don't be don't be ashamed to share about Jesus. 00:42:48.320 --> 00:42:52.239 The Bible says, I am not ashamed of the gospel because it's the power of God. 00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:55.920 And that power means salvation to others. 00:42:56.320 --> 00:42:58.239 You have the good news already. 00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:06.079 But please, church, it is time to start proclaiming, to share your faith with somebody else. 00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:08.960 Can you pray with me? 00:43:09.280 --> 00:43:11.519 Father in heaven, thank you so much. 00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:15.360 And we love you so much. 00:43:18.559 --> 00:43:24.719 Thank you because you call us not just to be your children, but you call us to be your servants. 00:43:26.239 --> 00:43:27.199 We love you. 00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:35.119 And we pray all of these things in the beautiful name of our Savior Jesus Christ that is coming soon. 00:43:35.519 --> 00:43:36.159 Maybe today. 00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:37.679 Hopefully today. 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:39.360 In that name we pray. 00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:40.159 Amen.