Paraguay Update #4

Greetings Everyone,
I hope this email finds you well on this beautiful Sunday afternoon.

Friday Night was a wonderful evening and I appreciate your prayers for our team. As many of you remember I mentioned that I would be speaking to the teens who were at the church to play sports. I was really nervous as i knew I would have to have Jason interpret for me and I am not very good at that. Well we prayed all day and I was able to give a short Gospel Presentation and it turned out really good. God helped me stop at the right times to give Jason enough time to interpret and it went really well. I took a little from what we taught in Africa and a little Dare 2 Share and combined it for a great lesson. Emphasis was on God created us in His image so we have value and purpose. God wants us to be with Him but we have a problem with Sin (missing the mark) and cannot pay for our own debt. God loved us so much that He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross, be buried and rise again from the dead to conquer sin and pay our penalty! I am thankful for the opportunity.

Yesterday we headed out for a day of tourism and went to the Iguazu Falls, which makes Niagra Falls look small, about 6 hours away. We left at midnight and tried to sleep on the drive down. It was a tough ride for sleeping, but we made it safely and had a wonderful time at the falls. I can´t wait for you to see pictures. The falls were formed from a lava flow and are just amazing. I think my favorite part was walking out on a catwalk that puts you right in front of the falls where you can feel the mist and hear the powerful sound of it all. I had to stand there amazed at the mighty awesomeness of the Creator of the Falls and praise Him for His beautiful creation. As Matt Vargo said when thinking about the splendor of these falls, ¨how amazing is it that God cares more for us then for these falls!¨ it was truly a magnificent sight.

We left the falls and had a wonderful lunch at a Brazilian Bar-b-q, similar to the one we went to in Africa. After lunch we headed to Iapatu Dam which was the largest Hydro-electric dam in the world until China just built one. It was pretty cool to see.

We had church service this morning and had a wonderful time of worship here. I was invited to preach about five minutes before service and regretfully declined. I don´t like preaching with no preparation and i didn´t want to do disservice to a text, but after I sat down I kept on thinking of things I could have preached about. It was awkward situation, but I am grateful for the verses that were preached to us by Oscar. The service was in Spanish so we followed along in our Bibles, but couldn´t really understand much. But the scriptures were powerful and it was neat to experience the church service.

This evening we are going to relax and play sports at the church. Tomorrow we will be back at work and hopefully can make a lot of progress on the room.

I wanted to let you know that our church has a blog about our trip and if you would like to keep updated or if I missed an email to you you can catch up at http://vesperlakemissions.blogspot.com/

Thanks for all your prayers. God bless, Brad Horner