And the Stories Continue

Another photo-less blog... Oh well, it's the content that counts and for you die hard blog readers, this has good content if you can wade through my wordy writing...

Daniel and Family

A few years back, Jean Paul (my boyfriend, works at Horizonte Church) met a neighbor named Daniel. They were about the same age and became good friends. I'm not sure if they met before or after JP became a Christian, but they point is, at JP shared with Dany about the hope he has in Christ. Dany became a Christian, began attending Horizonte, and about a year later enrolled in the school of evangelism. During that year in the school he always said that his greatest desire was that his family would become Christians and attend church as well.

The school of evangelism ended, and Dany didn't exactly make some good choices, and the next thing you know he and his very young girlfriend were expecting a baby. During this time, Liz, Dany's older sister, began to take interest in Christianity and began attending Horizonte. Shortly after, their mom came too. About a year ago along came the dad to church as well. All three of them - Liz and both parents - accepted the Lord and began to get involved in small groups at Horizonte, and the mom even teaches a childrens' sunday school class. Dany's whole family became Christians and were attending church, but Dany wasn't there.

Every saturday morning for as long as I've been here, JP has asked for prayer for Dany in our weekly prayer meetings. So we all pray for him.

About a month ago a young couple at Horizonte got married, and Dany came to the wedding, as the groom was a friend of his from the school of evangelism. At the wedding was the first time I met Dany (he'd been a good friend of JP).

Last saturday was independence day, and I went to Liz and her parents' house (Liz and I are in the same small group) with the single ladies' small group and the single guys' small group. Dany and his now wife Ili, and their little daughter were there. Ili was very shy and was in the house most of the time that the rest of us were outside BBQing, but Dany spent pretty much the whole night talking with Juan (another young guy from church).

The next day - Sunday morning - I was pleasantly surprised to see Dany, Ili, and the baby come into church. After the service ended, a lot of guys played soccer, and Dany and JP went to play, and since I was the only girl at the church that Ili had ever met, she came and sat by me and we talked a little. Later that afternoon, Dany was talking to Juan again and said that he'd decided that he needed to start going to church again and starting living to please the Lord! After well over a year (probably more) of praying for Dany, then seeing his family come to know the Lord, it's amazingly wonderful to hear that Dany wants to serve the Lord again, and hopefully Ili will be in it with him. I definitely want to make it my goal to get to know her better and introduce her to some other young moms at Horizonte... We'll see what God has in store for this young couple!!