Church in a Shed

Yes, you read that correctly. Yesterday, this was said to me. "In a little while, we are going to go to Maya Canter to see if we can fix up this man's shed so we can have church there because the crowd is getting large."

Church in a shed?!?!  

Understand, this is not mockery or anything demeaning. This is the result of a miracle in the making (maybe I will tell you more about that later...). The current state of things is that a new Nazarene church is being planted in this village and the house they are meeting in is too small. Last Sunday night when I was there - there were about 30 or more people inside (small room) and a good number outside as well, standing, leaning, sitting on the porch rail, whatever they could find.

The lengths that some people will go to in order to 'have church' are quite encouraging!

The man who opened his home, was raised a Catholic, not overly involved though and just recently, went through a life-or-death situation. He chose Jesus - for his eternal life - and God chose to add to his physical life. Now, he and many members of a nearby Nazarene church, are pleading with family and neighbors to also make the same life change.

"Let's spend the afternoon trying to fix up the shed so we can have church tonight!"

I suppose Jesus started in a little space not much different than this shed, so it seems fitting...

Makes me wonder what we might be willing to do if we understood the souls that hang in the 

balance...   ~ Eternity is a real long time ~

Happy to be serving in Belize,

 ~ Ray & Becki