Last Sunday night at church was a neat experience. There are 90 Americans in Costa Rica this week working with various churches doing evangelism. Three of these were at the church we attend in San Jose. In honor of these people and, I'm sure to attract visitors, we had special music which is rare or non-existent in most of the little churches here.
A young man sang and introduced his music by saying we were "going to Nashville, the country-music capital of the world". He sang "I'll Fly Away", "Peace in the Valley", and many more "Elvis hymns" in Spanish. It was so much fun for us to hear these precious old songs sung in this far-away place.
I'm sure the Costa Ricans didn't appreciate the music nearly as much as we did, but it blessed us to be reminded that God is the same yesterday, today and forever and all over the world. The nationals did agree with the message of the music as it's the same everywhere - those whom God has redeemed, He will bless, both here and in heaven.
Please keep praying for the nationals to get the vision of reaching their fellow countrymen with the gospel and for eternal results to come from the efforts put forth this week by these visiting Americans.
By the way, Carroll and I had our first opportunities to translate from English to Spanish for these American visitors. We trust that God gave the people "ears to hear" in spite of our mistakes.
