“The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit (James 5:16-18, ESV).
I remember that three months ago we were praying earnestly that it would rain in Santa Marta. As you can see from the photo, God has abundantly answered our prayers. I know that what we have experienced is nothing like our family and friends have experienced in Ames with this year’s flooding, but we wanted you to see something interesting about Santa Marta. I call it the land of extremes. I thought it was a desert when we first arrived, but now I see that it can also be very tropical.
Our back patio flooded with the downpour yesterday, and water started pouring through the back door. We spent a few hours mopping and cleaning out the house, and today some furniture is still drying out. The biggest blessing was that of the boxes that got wet, one contained the Bibles that I had thought were lost.
We have decided to stay in our current house because our other option fell through. I talked to the owner, and he is willing to make a few home improvements so that we will stay. I realized that we had not been thinking of this neighborhood very missionally, since we were planning to leave it. Now that Eduardo has become a believer, both he and I are excited about starting a Grupo de Impacto in this neighborhood. Please pray towards that end.
