Sorry for not posting a new blog update in a while. We have had some fun times over the past two weeks with our speaking partners, our neighbors next door, and with our friends here in Cordoba.
This past week, we celebrated the 4th of July before Ekklesia, our house church time, with hamburgers, cupcakes, and about 40 other people-most of had never come to Ekklesia before, which was a great ministry opportunity. We even had some fireworks playing in the background via youtube.com haha. We ended the party with a great time in worship, just praising the Lord for the freedom we have in Christ.
Argentina's Independence was this past thursday, so of course, we had another big celebration! We made the traditional Nueve de Julio food including empanadas, humitos (kind of like tamales), and this great cake with oatmeal and chocolate. We spent most of the morning and afternoon preparing all the food and the rest of the day and night eating, playing games, and enjoying our friend's company. We were able to invite our neighbors from next door as well, who we have started to build good relationships with in hope of sharing the gospel with them. I had a great conversation with one of them...he spoke in English and I spoke in Spanish haha. Be praying for more opportunities to hang out with them.
The Lord has been giving us more and more opportunities to talk with the people here about what we believe and why we follow Christ. For example, we met a guy a few weeks ago in an alfajores shop (a place where they make and box up argentine cookies) and he wanted to meet up to practice his english with us sometime, so we got to have coffee with him this past week and have a good conversation about the Lord. Eventhough he seemed fairly unresponsive to what we said, we still were able to speak Christ's name and form a new relationship. The Lord is clearly at work in Argentina, whether we see fruit from our trip or not, I know that He has not brought us here in vain. Thank you for your continued prayers. With only 3 weeks left here in Cordoba, I am praying for us to be even more persistant in meeting with all the contacts we have thus far.
