Back from China

It is a wonderful thing to get back home to our family and friends after twelve days away from them. Our journey begun taking a flight from Orlando to Atlanta, another from Atlanta to Seattle, and a third one from Seattle to Beijing. We visited two orphanages that we have been supporting since 2008 and met church leaders, did prayer walks at important locations, along with many other things that for obvious reasons we cannot publish here. We were a group of 13 people very eager to show the love of Jesus Christ in different ways and the Lord brought to our attention those specific moments to minister the spiritual needs of the Chinese nation.

I remember at the Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing, a women showed up pushing a wheel chair. When I look at the chair what I saw was one of the kids from our church. I have to look twice because of that. She was selling ice cream and it was obvious her survival depended upon the sales she would perform. Thus, she was speaking loudly, offering her ice cream to anyone that walk in near her. One of the team members that was with me asked me if he could give her 100 Yuan. I told him our policy os not to give money to anyone because when you give to one person, all of the sudden you would have 30 people around you asking for money. Nevertheless, we remained praying and talking to each other about a way to help this lady. Then, all of the sudden, both of us got the same message from above. I open my mouth and told to my brother in the Lord "let's ..." And while I was opening my mouth and saying those words, my brother had jumped out of the bench we were seating and ran to the lady, and bought all of the ice creams the lady had with her. Then he took the ice cream box and proceed to give free ice cream to the rest of the bystanders. In less than a minute 40 or 50 people were lining up asking for the free ice cream. And at this very moment, the rest of the group was joining us noticing what was happening and they took this opportunity to talk with the people about the Lord and give them some written information about a Christian website with a lot of information about the Bible.

Dr. Bob Tuttle have told me many times that 90 percent of evangelism is showing up and paying attention. This story is an example of how true it is. God is doing great things about the Chinese nation and we want to partner with them with medical teams traveling from the West with the purpose of help the special need children of China. Stay tuned because we are going to have another journey to the most strategic place on earth; the Peoples Republic of China.

Beyond the Upper Room

As Rev. Loftin mentioned, the Apostles and the other members of this family of believers waiting for Jesus signal at the Upper Room, were afraid of their future and a mile long list of questions were building in their hearts. But the power of the Holy Ghost changed their lives forever. Today we have the same Holy Spirit ready to continue filling our lives with His anointing in such way, we could be agents of influence and change in our families, local communities, cities, states, nation, and beyond our borders to the ends of the earth. Yes, we, the Western Church can enjoy the same blessings and fruits our sisters and brothers of the Eastern hemisphere are bearing. Yes, we, as part of that church beyond the upper room, we can reach out to this generation of people with many questions and not many answers about our wonderful Savior and the roots of our faith. Yes, we have the obligation of carry on that legacy of a church that has already receive it the power of God to go into the housing projects, the crack houses, the hospitals, nursing homes, and hospices, the jails and rehab programs, proclaiming with authority the salvation from God to His children.

It is my prayer we can proclaim the message of Love and Salvation that only Christ can only offer from Detroit to Miami, and from the District of Columbia to Los Angeles. The time of being trapped in the Upper Room is over. We must go to the drug addict in Rochester, the single mother in Orlando, the unemployed in Denver, the poor of the poor living in the Appalachian Mountains, the Mexicans in San Antonio, the Iraqis in Dearborn, the Navajos in Tucson, the Chinese in San Francisco, the Rwandans in Baltimore, and every other individual under the sky from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego and from London to Beijing. This is our destiny, this is our mission, therefore, go, go , go, and change the world for Christ.