July 30, 2016

Last October, the Ataco church hosted the first teacher seminar with close to 100 attending.  Rachel had wanted to make this an annual event, so she had planned a meeting for Saturday morning.  So, I stopped by Salcoatitan to pick up Linda and Luzelena and Betty came from Ahuachapán.  We met for about 3 hours and still planned one more meeting before October 8^th.  It is approaching fast with lots to do.  However, everyone had been working hard and things should be ready.  I think there are 17 churches that being invited, so it is growing.  Dwaine did some work at the building and helped load up some items for Ricardo.  Ricardo, Carlos and Omar are going to Santa Tecla to set up canopies for the multi church gathering scheduled for Sunday.  After lunch, we started cooking for our dinner guests.  When most was ready, we left to make a trip to Regina’s and Ana’s.  Regina has been sick for about two weeks now.  She has a lot of trouble with high blood pressure and has been having severe headaches.  She has been to the doctor and has taken meds, but has not had much relief.  She has to stay in bed for the most part because of her headaches are worst when she gets up.  We had wanted to offer if we drove our car instead of traveling on the bus, could she make the trip.  But, she said no.  She was just in too much pain.  After prayer, we left to go to Ana’s.  She thought she could get the bus with some assistance, so we planned to pick her up at 6:45 on Sunday.  We got home around 5 with an hour and a half to finish up dinner.  At 6:30 Omar came by to say they would be a few minutes late.  Some were still out from day excursions.  It wasn’t long and everyone arrived and we enjoyed a nice meal together.  They all brought their Bibles, but we had not particularly planned a study.  So, we talked about many spiritual things, but mostly tried to get to know each other better.