First let me explain what I meant by the title. Pastor Victor knew that if he was going to reach his community for Christ he would have to send his people out from his church to do church planting so he prayed to empty his church. From his church he has started over 20 churches.
Our next stop was a rural church where once again we heard more testimonies. You will notice that everyone was dressed up even though this was a Friday afternoon. Because it was Friday afternoon a number of people arrived late. Instead of turning to look at the latecomer in a judgmental manner they stopped and welcomed them by name.
We then drove further inland to another church. As many as possible including me jumped into the back of a small pickup truck for the trip to the church.
The pastor of this church had been a former criminal.
Our next stop was extremely remote. We drove about 10 km down a single lane muddy dirt road. We drove past cacao bean trees, banana trees and sugar cane plantations as well as very poor homes.
Our final destination was a remote village with houses on stilts and an open air school. Someone had promised them money to build a new school but after the school was started the money didn't arrive.
At the end of the day we drove back to Guayaquil and flew back to Quito. We were tired but we felt that we had really experienced what the New Testament church would have been like.
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