For Such A Time as This (Women's Colombia Team)

Our time is coming to an end here in Barranquilla. It has been a week of incredible ministry and life change. I will go home a diiferent person with a new world view. I will not say that it has been an easy week. There have been many different types of challenges where I have had to remember that my strength comes from Christ. I not only had to remember it, but be willing to believe it, be obedient and perservere. Theee, good news is, with obedience comes blessing. Yesterday as my team was walking the streets of Mesalondia we entered in a home that was basically the size of most of our dens and the only peice of furniture in the room was a bed. The house was full full of people and they were clearly upset. As we began to talk to them we discovered that the person who lived in this "house" was a 20 year named Edwin who, because of living alone and his struggle with depression, had tried to hang himself the night before. He was found before he was able to accomplish his mission and now was on watch by his family and friends. I was blessed to be able to take time to listen to his sister while she cried through the story of what had happened and what she was feeling. As my translator and I talked with her, we called one of the local pastors over to talk with Edwin.

We took the time to share the gospel story with Edwin's sister and three friends. They were very eager and ready to drop thier heads and pray to accpet Christ as their Lord and Savior. Then I was blessed to be able to pray over Edwin. I walked away after that experience blown away with who our God is and how He works. If we had not come to Mesalondia on that day, I do not know that anyone would have been in that barrio at that time not only to minister to this family but for them to have the opportunity to come to know Christ. Obedience in every step. That is what is the key to to the blessings God has for us. I will never forget Edwin and his sister's face. If this trip has taught me anything, it is that I have NO IDEA what God may have planned for me on any given day. I just need to be obedient what He asks me to do.

- Lisa Goodwin