Just A Little World Changin'

It’s Tuesday evening and my feet ache with missions. We are in Montevideo – the capitol city – this week working with a group of 70 students from the United States.  These students split into 6 groups to daily infiltrate the city with prayer, literature distribution, relational evangelism, kids’ events, construction, creative arts and, well, hope. Collectively, we are WorldChangers, and this week, we get to do just that.

 

Joni and I are 2 of 3 “interns” who are a part of the WorldChangers team, so we both work separately during the days with teams of students. Each team consists of a resident ambassador couple, a translator, an intern, an adult leader from the States and 6-10 students. Each team is assigned a different area of the city to target and a specific strategy. I am on a Children’s Ministry team and we are in the far corner of the city conducting a children’s club in the afternoons. In the mornings, we prayerwalk the interior of the city.

 

My team is incredibly diverse. With members of varying spiritual backgrounds and a representative from each corner of the U.S, you know God has a strategy when a group like us is called to work together. Many of our students were nervous about prayerwalking this morning, but most of them picked up on it quickly. At one point, three of us were praying on a street corner when we sensed a strong mandate from the Holy Spirit not to move on from there. We stood there for several more minutes praying however we were led when I finally turned around and noticed a large advertisement for a Tarot business with the tagline, “No Es Casa De Religion.” This is not at all uncommon for Montevideo and we recognized our purpose on that street corner to establish the resistance against this deception. It is not that the typical Uruguayan is an evil person, but that they have not found hope anywhere else.

 

After leading a small team in flyer distribution around lunchtime, we began our children’s club. About 20 students attended this afternoon with great participation. I told the Bible story yesterday about the Triumphal Entry of Jesus. I began the story with, “How many of you know about Jesucristo?” Not a stir. I began at square one, “For The Creator God so loved the world …” What a beautiful message it is to tell what has never been heard – and to hear His Name proclaimed as a result. By the end of the afternoon, the kids were singing “Cristo me ama” and eagerly asking questions about Jesus. When He comes, He causes quite a stir!

 

In fact, He can even change the world.