Skit's Amazing.

This is our skit! Bob Morris (with the beard and white hair) is God, Cory Bradley (the one with the darker beard and buzz-cut hair) is Jesus, Donna Jean Deemer (the one with the long curly hair and yellow shirt) is Eve, Steve Ferrebee (with glasses and a yellow shirt also) is Adam, Jessica Lucas (with long straight black hair) and I (Marie Davison - the one with RED hair) are demons, and Vera Reese (short drak hair and red glasses) and Janis Metzendorf (strawberry blonde hair) together are the Tree of Knowledge and The Cross. :) It really is moving. Sorry that it's all in Spanish though. Tee hee. It's pretty self-explanatory though.

Pictures From Day Two!

 Cory cheesin' it up

 The view in the park! (El Parque Central)

There were lots of kites!



What A Day!

Today was utterly amazing. :) And eventful. First, we woke up and went to breakfast, then we all split into three groups. Donna Jean and Steve went with Pastor B to one church so he could preach. I've heard wonderful things. :) Jess and I went with Cory to another church for Cory to preach, and Reverend Tim and the rest of our team for him to preach here at our home base church. He spoke about healing.
It was an amazing experience to be there with Cory and Jess at the church we went to. Cory spoke about faith, and everyone was so receptive to what he had to say. Two people (possibly four) were saved! Then we brought everyone up and we prayed for every single person who needed prayer. It was amazing! At first it was all three of us praying together for people, then Jess and I broke off to pray for more people. At some point she and I separated and I ended up praying for a bunch of people all by myself. :) It was beautiful to see all of the people moved by the Holy Spirit. A few people even fainted from the power of The Spirit!
They were all so grateful to us. That is something I noticed about this place: everyone is so grateful and affectionate! The people here have a way of making you feel so loved and wanted. Food is definitely the language of thanks and love here. To say thank you, they feed you. It's so funny. We were hugged and kissed all the way out the door!
Then, after lunch, we all went out to the park. It was packed because today is Bogota's Independence Day! Everyone was playing and flying kites. We set up in different places all over the park and did our program three times. It was really powerful! I even got to do the alter call once! It was so fun to dance and to talk to the Colombians. I keep saying that I'm going to end up with an accent by the time we leave.
All in all, today was life changing for a lot of people. About 70 people have been saved since we got here! And we have 5 days left!

New Souls!

Just to keep a record:
Yesterday where were 80 children at the site. 12 of them were saved. New souls!!!! It's so exciting. We will continue to keep records of the total number of people and the number of new souls for Christ.

Pictures From Our First Day

 The view from our hotel

 The Kids!

 Steve got pulled through the "slip 'n' slide"

 Norma being silly next to one of her paintings

Some really cool graffiti we saw on the way back. The city is full of it!

He Turned It Around

Okay, let me just start out by saying that today ended up to be an amazing first day to our "Misión en Colombia" (Spanish for Mission in Colombia). I can truthfully say that the Devil attempted to wriggle his way into our midst today. After a yummy breakfast (with really good jelly), some time outside (being blinded by the sun), and a big big lunch, John decided to head back to the hotel with Tim (who had to preach today) because he was feeling very carsick. That alone was a little upsetting. Another thing that was upsetting was that poor Cory got altitude sickness and ended up going back also, causing us to lose our Jesus and our sound guy for the drama.

However, once we got to the site (a camp for kids in a city named Cota about an hour from Bogota), God took charge for us. :) The children were wonderful. We danced with them, we sang with them, and I got to pick the toys for two girls that I felt compelled to. The one (who had hardly smiled the whole time) couldn't stop smiling from ear to ear. It was beautiful. :)

Another blessing from God came not from a child, but from the woman whose home we were while at the site. Her name was Norma, and she and Jess and I really connected with her. She is an artist! She showed us her paintings, and they were absolutely beautiful! The one took her eight years to paint! I felt so connected to her because we both had a passion for painting. We even did pretty well understanding each other although she only spoke a little English and me and Jess not very good Spanish. I got a lot of chances to practice my Espanol today! Then she introduced us to her daughter Andrea, who spoke English because she is studying to be a cardiologist! We all had a really wonderful conversation with her. Norma even asked Jess and me to stay with them for the week! How sweet! (However, we are not staying with them. Haha.)

We just got back from a completely amazing praise and worship meeting. Cory and Janine played some awesome guitar (plus some beautiful singing from Janine). One song we sang spoke to me especially. It was called "Give Me Your Eyes," and it was extremely appropriate. During it, God revealed to me something really cool: He coordinated this trip for us a long time ago. He set everyone on this team for a specific purpose because of the special and completely unique talents that He placed on the inside of us. This team would not be the same without even one of it's members. That's amazing! I was moved to tears during the worship.

All in all, today was an utterly amazing day. And it was only the start to a life changing week. For everyone.

Good Morning!

This morning was a good one here in Bogota. I think we all slept well and feel ready to go today. We won't be doing the skit until later this afternoon, and in less than a half an hour all of us will be heading up to the forth floor for our first (well, my first) Colombian breakfast. It is there that we will finally speak to Pastor John (the fluent English speaking pastor of the church/bible school) and his wife, Alba to find out what will be the agenda of this fine day and the rest of them. As I type, Jess is still getting ready (looking beautiful!), Donna Jean is constantly reminding us of how much time until breakfast, Janis is journaling, and Vera and Janine are getting dressed. I'm still getting used to the lack of oxygen (I got REALLY winded on the way up the stairs), and we're all still adjusting to our new surroundings, but I'm sure that after a day or two we'll all feel just like home.