In recent weeks there seem to have been breakthroughs in a number of areas in our ministry. This made it possible for us to organize the Marriage Course together with friends of ours. We also welcomed an outreach team again and this year we are organizing a Marriage Couples Night and a Bible Summer School for the second time. These are all activities that we hoped and prayed for. What a blessing that this is possible and that the preparations seem to be going well. But to top it all off, we see that the ministry in San Nicolas, Cas di Restauracion, is growing considerably and that several churches now want to support this initiative. What first started with Mama Sandra (see blog 009), is now starting to develop as an initiative by and for the community. Something that seemed impossible in Aruba in recent years is now really happening. Organizations start to work together selflessly and what is even more special, church congregations are willing to let go of the past and humble themselves together before God.
In two meetings with pastors and leaders from different churches in San Nicolas we experienced that they really want to do what God calls us all to do; care for “the widows and orphans”. Different insights and different ecclesiastical cultures are no longer decisive for these shepherds. They want to focus on Jesus and from there commit themselves to their immediate neighbors. Not by staying within four walls and preaching about how things should be done, but by going out, rolling up their sleeves, working together and complementing each other as the body of Christ. And me? I watch, amazed at the new things happening here, impressed by the silent revolution that God is unleashing.
When seven church congregations come together to ask forgiveness for what was, to magnify God’s name above all else and to expect a new beginning under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you can be sure that the Holy Spirit is at work. I’m in awe and looking forward to more!
