Trip To Colombia

 Ben took a trip to Colombia at the end of May/beginning of June for some annual meetings with all the other country coordinators. It is always a great time of hearing what God is dong globally through New Life Network. It is also a sweet time of prayer and fellowship with fellow co-laborers. We also had a retreat with the pastors in Colombia and some from Venezuela. Ben was impacted by the challenges confronting the church in Venezuela. See some pictures from this time below:

Our car ride in a compact car with all our suitcases from the airport to the place where we were staying.

During our time with the coordinators we all shared a report and prayed for each other.

Yeison and Liliana did a great job leading. Yeison is now the coordinator of Colombia. (He served with us in Guatemala)

This was our tourist day where we took the public transportation around Medellin Colombia. They have nice public transportation.

More time of sharing

More worship and prayer together.

More pics of our fun tourist day.

Over the weekend we served the pastors in Colombia at one of the churches there.

This was a workship that Daniel and Ben led on Developing a Culture of Discipeship.

This was another workshop we did on global missions.

This was a friend that came and served with us in Guatemala and lives in Medellin.

Trip to Colombia

In 2018 we had a young man, Yeison from Colombia come and intern with us in the Church. He was a huge help in getting New Life Church started. This past week he got married. I was able to go and meet Levi there in Colombia for the wedding. I had the privilege of preaching at the wedding. I also got to share in a church there on Sunday May 2nd. It was an interesting trip with all the COVID restrictions and also the protests happening in Colombia but it was a good trip overall. It was good to spend some time with my son and also share with some other Pastors, churches and ministries there. We were in Bogota and Medellin. Below are a few more details and pictures:

We arrived Friday night into Bogota. We spent Saturday hanging out with Yeison and our host family. We also went and met Yeison's family who was staying in Yeison's apartment about 30 minutes away. (Bogota is a very big city about 10 million)

Sunday I got to preach at a church there in Bogota.

This is Pastor Diego. Below is his family and leaders that led the service. The churches there are still virtual.

Hanging out with Yeison and his brother Yeimer.

The wedding. It was in a beautiful place.

After the wedding we got into the back of a box truck and tried to get to the airport (Long Story) we finally made it and got to Medillin another city in Colombia about 10 hours by car but only a 1/2hr flight. We spend time with our friend Remberto and his family. He leads the New Life Network in Colombia.

They have a great public transportation system with cable cars that go over the city which gave us a great view and tour of the city.

This was a touristic place we visited. We climbed to the top.

My favorite part was hanging with this guy. He is becoming a fine young man. We hope to travel more together in the future. The Lord is doing some cool things in his life!