At various points Crescent Hill team members had hoped they could visit two outlying churches that have been part of the presbytery for several years: the Monte Sinai church in San Carlos El Porvenir, near Puerto Barrios, and the Hijo del Viviente Dios church in La Guitarra, which I thought was near Livingston. Long before the trip started, I realized that La Guitarra wasn’t really accessible from Livingston. And soon after we arrived, others confirmed that San Carlos was PAST Puerto Barrios and so at least four hours away. We soon nixed both trips, when it turned out that, although the road from Rio Dulce to Flores would take us a few miles from La Guitarra, the rain would clearly have made the muddy, rutted narrow dirt road from the highway to the hamlet accessible for our large van. Still, Pastor Fidel, who travels to La Guitarra to preach once a month, schemed that the team might visit with other Hijo church leaders. And so as the team prepared to leave El Estor Wednesday morning, Fidel gave team members a cell phone number for a church leader, and said that – hours before the team would near La Guitarra – a small group of church leaders was already waiting by the side of the road. After two hours, the van pulled into Semox, the tiny crossroads where the road to La Guitarra swung left, where four men were indeed waiting along the road for the team. A short conversation, presentation, and prayer – sped up by team members who were nervous about a van full of Yankees and disembarking along a highway that had once been branded too dangerous for tourists – and the team was off.
No comments:
Post a Comment