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Day 10 - Its a Fiesta!!!
On Friday we had the opportunity to be apart of our first "quinceanera". This is not only found in Peru but many hispanic cultures celebrate this significant event. The tradition celebrates a young girl who is turning 15 years old (la Quinceanera), and recognizes her journey from childhood to maturity. The customs highlight God, family, friends music food, and dance.
This young girl, Daniella, is one of the youth as Dean's church. We were invited to play some music at the reception portion of her celebration. It was a little nerve wrecking as we did not know what to expect. But it ended up being quite an interesting and fun evening. We played music then Ashley gave a word of encouragement to Daniella about being a woman of God in an ungodly world. By the end of the night we had learned what it meant to be a 15 year old in the Peruvian culture.
Day 11 - Youth Services
Saturday afternoon, the guys headed to Collage @ 4PM which was held at San Isidro church (Mother church). Collage is the typical name for youth group within all the Emmanuel Biblica churches here in Peru. There we led worship and Jase spoke to the youth from God's word. It was an awesome service. Youth definitely know how to have fun in worship that's for sure. Us girls weren't feeling so great as we had been sick for a few days, so we rested during the first service then met up with the guys for the second service. At 8pm we went to Indepencia for GENERACIÓN NUEVA, which is the youth/young adults services within Emmanuel Biblica. There Rick spoke a message and there was an amazing time around the altar afterwards.
Day 12 - San Isidro
On Sunday we attended San Isidro church, which is known as the mother church in Lima. It is from this church that many of the other Emmanuel Biblica Iglesia Assemblies are planted (ex. San Miguel, Indepencia, etc.). This church in particular holds 6 different services on any given Sunday, beginning at 7AM and the last service at 7PM. We attended the 11AM service which was an awesome experience as we got to take in a typical Sunday morning worship service in Peru. Before coming to Lima, we were told that each service there would be about 10-15 people who would give their hearts to God and to be honest we were doubtful about that. But after seeing 12 people give their hearts to God in the 11AM service, we were hopefully for what God would do in the evening services.
That evening, we were apart of the 5PM & 7PM services, leading worship and Lorne brought the word. In both services there was a total of about 25 people who made a first time decision while others spent time in prayer. There was no doubt in our minds that God was at work in this church, especially after seeing people respond to him with our own eyes.
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