bread

we gave out bread at church on sunday. pastor jose and patricio went around to the poorest families in town and invited them to church. only a couple of people came instead of the numbers hoped for so we had bread in church as well as people took some home. yesterday jose and i went around to the families that were invited but didn't come. i have been to homes that are made of bamboo, with no doors and no windows and walls that are made of black plastic. although jose referred to the area as the ghetto these houses at least were made of wood and had doors. the look on the woman's face when i gave her a bag of bread was priceless. tears welled up in her eyes. our message was that we would have bread in church and we wanted them to come to church. she said she would. the other families thanked us for the bread but did not indicate they wanted to come to church. we still had bread left so dany and i went back later and gave the first lady another bag of bread. she had a look on her face like you've already given me bread and could hardly believe that we were giving her a gift of another bag of bread.

although our intent is have people come to church for the bread, that way they get the sermon as well, will our actions say more than our words if we continue to take the bread to them.