Preaching, teaching, praying, boating and trekking were the main events for 15 bible students and I last week. On Sunday afternoon a few brothers and I took off in the Lord's boat (El Chasqui Del Rey) and picked up students from several different villages along the river. These students are all preachers, teachers, and evangelists in their respective pueblos and are very key men who want and need biblical training.
During the course of the week we visited six villages where we did everything possible to get the gospel out to the people. Every afternoon we did "hut to hut" evangelism while passing out tracts, praying for the people and sharing Christ with them. In the evenings we held evangelistic open air meetings and then counseled interested souls.
Every day began with Bible reading and prayer and then we spent 5 hours between breakfast and lunch going through a course on Ecclesiology (study of the church). We went through the whole book of Acts and several key passages in the pastoral epistles. This was an extremely valuable time and great opportunity to pour into these men that God is using for His glory along the Huallaga river. Please pray for them!
Missions quote for the day from William Booth:
“Not called!' did you say?
'Not heard the call,' I think you should say.
Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face — whose mercy you have professed to obey — and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.”
Micah for the Tuttle's
