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Saturday October 11, 2008

Today we went to visit the homes again…it was just the girls and there were about 10 of us that went out. We walked to the front part of Reynel Funez and it probably took us around 25 to 30 minutes to get there. Some of these youth live in the beginning and walk to and from church whenever the doors are open and are always doing walks through the villages, services or working on the building….they’re dedicated! We went to pray with one of the Nora who’s one of the youth’s Aunt, Catherine and her story was a sad one. Her son got sick at 18 and was living with epilepsy in Reynel Funez with no medical care. He’s now 26 and stays in bed and is very sick and can’t really do much. She just started to crying and although Amber and I could only pick up on certain things in the conversation you could tell this woman was so worn out and hurting. She just poured out her story and we went into the bedroom where her son was sleeping and prayed over his body. She tried to get his attention and he looked but couldn’t speak and just rolled back over…it was so sad! I’ve never heard pray so strong before I heard them pray over him….these were youth screaming and calling out the sickness from his body and praying over his life and his family…they’re just kids themselves and have so much power already, more than anyone I know. We then went to Wendy’s house who is one of the man youth. She’s nineteen and is an authority in the church…she sings in the praise and worship, teachers the little kids on Sunday mornings, oftens leads youth and services and can pray like nobodies business! She has 3 younger sisters who are all just the same and are very active in the youth group and they all live with their single mother in a very small house with their sick grandmother…heart breaking. These girls are so powerful and the happiest, strongest , most beautiful girls you will ever meet and they have NOTHING! They have SO MUCH JOY and are completely sold out for God and their entire life is about doing his work. When I walked into their house their aunt, uncle, young cousin and brand new baby cousin, and another aunt were all in the house, as well as their sick grandmother is bed and the entire youth group. Everyone showed up and went into the bedroom and completely just started praying over body. They’re so strong and supportive of each other. Back home we might plan something far in advance and maybe half of the people show up...here these kids LIVE for it!

We had another great night of teaching our class and because we were already with our entire class out praying we just all followed eachother back to the church and went right into class…ON A SATURDAY! Yep they ALL showed up :) Then after the class they immediately got ready for youth group which started 30 minutes after class. The service is completely done on their own with a lot of music, prayer, different people come up to share and a whole illustrated sermon done by one of the older youth…SO AWESOME! These kids are nothing short of amazing :)

Love, Alisa