Lisa and can’t believe we are home now!
It was difficult to leave El Salvador. We did not get to see all the family we wanted to see, however the short time we were able to see certain family members was a joy. One of my favorite things was to help one of my cousins move to her new home with her family. It is hard to be part of the family’s day-to-day activities when we are so far away. So helping them move made me feel like I was part of the family. It is something that might not make sense unless you live away from family.

Lisa and I loved the work that Emmanuel Baptist Church is doing in El Salvador. They are a small church, but they are making a significant impact in El Salvador and the world. Our mission team visited one of their missionaries in Cerro Campanas. They had so much going on in this little mission. There is a family with ten kids living in the community. They are doing agricultural development like raising goats and chickens to help the local farming families to improve their nutrution and something called lombricultura where they create fertalizer using worms. They also are teaching the farmer how to make organic pesticieds. However this family does not live like the traditional missionaries that I have seen that live in first world conditions. They are Salvadoran missionaries and live just like the farming families. I will write more about this family later.

There is so much to think about, but it is hard to put into words right now. The one thing that I left with is that the Church is in need to return to a biblical view of justice. We in the evangelical church have emphasized the Gospel of the life to come in heaven, but have left out the impact of the Gospel in the everyday life of the people that believe the Gospel. In other words, we have ignored the Kingdom of God and the demands that puts in our everyday life. In Emmanuel, I found a church that trully lives that and preaches it, WOW! It was truly a great experience to meet this church body.