Martial Arts in the Park?!!

We serve such a GREAT GOD! If he wants it done, it will be done!

Outside of the Cathedral with Veronica's amazing family
who has opened their home to us while we are in language
school.

We are in Guadalajara for language school and have been praying about opportunities to start or get involved in some ministries while we are here (with our extremely limited time). After a few days of praying about this and running through some options for starting bible studies, Veronica and I were out for a run late one night (our first time to run together...maybe ever, God is so cool). While we were running we noticed a young couple carrying a baby up to a house, on our next loop around the neighborhood we noticed them again but at a different house, on our third loop we saw them at a different house and it was clear that they were looking for help. Thank you Jesus! So we stopped and talked with them. They needed milk for their baby so we walked with them down to the local pharmacy and got the type of milk they needed. Then we walked with them and bought them some food and had a chance to pray with them! We are just planting seeds with a little bit of love so the Holy Spirit can water them and then the possibilities are endless!

The next night I was running through the park and I saw two guys kicking on a martial arts kicking shield...so I stopped to watch. They were training some kicking and punching drills and it was clear that one of them was really good and was teaching the other. I started to head home when the Holy Spirit stopped me in my tracks...Go talk to them. I said "Lord I don't want to interrupt them...and I can hardly even speak their language." He just simply reminded me of his scripture in The Acts of the Apostles when he tells us not to worry about what we will say when we get there because His Spirit will speak for us. OK Lord, YES LORD, I will go. So I walked over and interrupted their training, in Spanish, and managed to speak enough that they invited me to train with them. After about an hour of training they invited me to come and train with them twice a week for the rest of the time I am in town. They were only training once a week but they are adding another day while I am here. It turns out one of them speaks a bit of english and with my bit of spanish we communicate great. Through training we earned a great respect for each other and I am excited to see how the Lord works through this time! Please pray for these two guys because I know Jesus wants to do something here, pray for me that I can be open and docile to the Holy Spirit so I don't get in the way of His work. It is amazing how He uses our gifts for His will when we are open and ready to listen to Him.