Beautiful wheels?

Motorcycles are the plague of the streets in Portachuelo.  There is no control, motorcycles don't need a license,  the drivers don't need a license, maintenance is kept to a bare minimum.   They come from all directions and there is no way of knowing which portion of the road they might want.  At night many of them are without lights.  It is like in the days of the judges, when every man did what was right in his own eyes.  It is the Lord's mercy that there aren't more accidents.  


How beautiful are the wheels......Each Sunday afternoon five motorcycles roar off down the road out of Portachuelo.  These five are all the motorcycles in the Portachuelo Christian Assembly.  Each one carries a special cargo.  They are a team from the  Assembly on their way to minister the Gospel to various small communities in the Province of Sara.   A province would be comparable to a county in the States and Portachuelo is the county seat. 

The team in Bañadito

Romans 10:15  And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! 

Bañadito, San Ignacio, San Juan, Torrentes, San Miguel, Caranda are some of the towns that have been visited recently.  Usually they are well received. Sometimes there are surprises, like this past Sunday only two kids showed up for the meeting in San Isidro.  The reason,  the town's soccer team was playing in a tournament in Buena Vista, 40 kilometers away, and almost everyone went to watch.

Luis and Aldo with the kids in Bañadito

Most of those who attend these meetings are kids.  But some adults come out,usually women once in awhile some men.  At our midweek prayer meeting Aldo shared the request of a mother from Bañadito whose husband had died a few days before.  She asked for strength and wisdom.