Jordan Rippy

Another great day! We spent a lot of time traveling to schools. The schools that we visited were on the outskirts of El Salvador. In fact, we were less than a mile from the border of Honduras. This is by far the most rural Book of Hope trip I have been on. The Book of Hope director said that they were having a hard time getting teams to come this far out. It´s great to be in a place that has never heard the gospel.

All of our school presentations went really well. Aaron, Mitch, and I got ice cream for the all of the kids in another park today. We were so high up in the mountains. It was beautiful, but a bit scary at times. I´m thankful that it wasn´t raining today.

Highlight of the day was a local carnival. We were on our way back from the schools when we passed a large carnival. We had some time, so we stopped and got a Coke, and observed for a few minutes. As we were leavign we all started talking about how we should have asked to speak on the main stage. Our driver turned the van around, and we talked to the owner, to see if he would give us a few minutes on the stage. As it turns out, his wife knew who we were from our distributions. She told him to give us some time, so we spent ten minutes doing an impromptu crusade!When we finished the entertainer who we had interrupted got on the mike and said, “That was not a planned part of our program, but when a word from the Lord comes, we have to acknowlege it and allow it. We are blessed that they came today.” Talk about favor!

Tonight we are hosting a showing of The Godman…The Godman is a film version of the Book of Hope that is use sometimes instead of crusades.