Day 4 – Visiting Alajuela

We attended ICC’s weekly prayer meeting in the morning at 8am. Including us, there were 33 bros and sis joined. I talked to a brother: he had to leave home before 7am to join the prayer meeting; and then take another hour to drive to get back to his restaurant by 11am. Despite their busy schedule, they’re willing to take a lot of extra time and miles to come, kneel down and pray together. It really inspired me.

Setup for one of the prayer groups. Do you know why chairs are facing opposite to each other? 

The answer is: we knelt down when we prayed to humble ourselves in front of the Lord.

After prayer meeting, we had a short fellowship time with some refreshment made by a couple. We then joined brothers and sisters to visit Alajuela, a nearby town. We were split into groups of three of four people. Like yesterday, we stopped by their stores or restaurants, chatted with them a little, passed them the CCM magazines (中信月刊), and invited them to our church. We also subscribed the magazines for them, if they shared their addresses.  

Getting ready to visit!

Shu-man sharing the Gospel with poh-poh

I had a chance to share with a grocery store owner: making money has no end; and we need to know God for a joyful and blessed life. The U.S. was founded with Christian-based values, which brought a lot of correct moral influence on to the people. I also showed him on each U.S. dollar note it printed ‘In God we trust’. I encouraged him to come to church once and hopefully he can make the correct decision one day.

Sharing the good news to the grocery store owner

Keeping records

My lunch called Casados (means married) - a local Costa Rica dish. It is a mixture of meat, veggies, rice and beans. 

Visiting. 

Group photo before leaving Alajuela

Group photo before dinner

Prayer items:

• Please pray that our sowing of the Gospel to their hearts can be harvested one day. May the Holy Spirit work in their hearts.
• Pray that the Lord will give us strength, health and power to continue for his work tomorrow. We will have more visiting and 2 sharing tomorrow.
• Pray that we can learn from them to have even more faithful hearts for serving Him; and our passion to be contagious to other bros and sisters.
• Continue to pray for Roland’s recovery.