Ciudad Quesada

Sin Paredes and I had a wonderful ministry weekend at Ciudad Quesada. It a tremendous privilege to have the chance to reach people, young and old, and to encourage them to love God and serve with everything you have.

We started our weekend with music-ministry workshops, we offered 4 simultaneous workshops on drums, bass, guitar and worship leading. I focused on 20 common mistakes worship leaders make when on stage during our services and practical ways of avoiding those mistakes. We had 25 participants and our feedback was great!

Immediately after our workshops we started our sound check for a very energetic concert. We rocked Ciudad Quesada for a good hour and closed our evening worshiping the Lord together, I am still receiving text messages from kids that were touched by the Lord. There was a final rock song to close the evening, it was so intense I ended up with a hoarse voice, it was well worth it though. We had a crowd of around 200 kids and adults who rocked hard, but who also worshiped passionately.

You realize you´re not 20 anymore when you don{t want to get up after a concert night. I finally managed to make it to the shower and get ready for our second phase, preaching the Sunday morning sermon on sowing good seeds and reaping in righteousness.

We spent one hour saying our good-byes as we returned to San José, we still feel rich as we continue to sow the good seeds of God's grace and love in people's lives.

Being able to do what I love most is a privilege beyond my words and gratitude. I thank God and you for teaming up with your prayers, words of encouragement and even your pockets to make all this possible, the very best gift is not the claps or the chance to be on the limelight, the greatest privilege is being able to spend time one on one with our friends to pray, listen and share God's love with them.

MTV usually offers bigger, fancier gigs; but they can't offer love unconditional and salvation. A gig is fun for a while, we thrive in offering the kind of love that sticks with you forever.

Gloria Deo