Intercession

Well, the first week of the new school is over. There is a lot of exciting news.

First of all, the pregnant girl we are in counseling with came to another session.... with her boyfriend. They are planning to get married. Now, his situation is touchy. He has 11 brothers and sister, but then his father has another 45 children outside of wedlock. So, they both recognize that neither one of their families is a good example of how they want their own family to be. We will continue meeting with them, as they are preparing for marriage next month and then the preparation to be parents. They said that they would invite us. It will be in the Catholic church, and it also will be my first Colombian wedding.

We have a wonderful school! The counseling school students are all staying at our house, the Esperanzas de Vida house. There are four boys and two girls, and they all get along wonderfully. They are between 17 and 30, but have a wonderful amount of openness as we are talking about very personal stuff in classes. I have been able to help some with the teaching, and it's amazing what God's been turning classes into personal healing.

I also had the opportunity to teach two classes in the DTS: Devotional Life and Intercession. We had the intercession class on Wednesday, and I was talking about what is intercession, how we go about it, but also emphasizing that prayer is the real work of Christians and really does impact the spiritual world. That morning we spent time praying for Colombia, the government, military, and the people that are kidnapped currently. That SAME AFTERNOON, the news came out that 15 kidnapped people had been freed! Our military actually pretended to be FARC leaders transferring the kidnapped prisoners from one place to another... and it worked! One of them was the most famous woman that had been in captivity 7 years. Her name is Ingrid, and we saw the video of her being reunited with her husband and children after years of torture and separation. What a moment of joy and celebration for our nation! So, as you can imagine, we spent time in the evening classes thanking God. It was so cool to see such a huge victory for Colombia and at the same time be aware that God is inviting us to be apart of the work he is doing in Colombia.