Team from America

What a week and half I have had. A team of Americans from South Carolina came to Macedonia to minister to the people here. They were broken into two groups. The first group worked on construction the new church in Strumitca. They arrived with only the flooring and pillars poured. In a week and a half, they have built most of the walls of the church. It is such a blessing to have their help building this new church.

The second group travelled all around Macedonia to different villages providing medical care. We had lines of people waiting to register and receive their examination. We saw over 600 people during the six days and visited seven villages. One was a small Turkish village in the middle of a valley about a two hour drive from Negotino. No one has been to this village to evangelise it and it has a very large radical Muslim influence. Because of this, we were not able to share the gospel in the Turkish village, but we were able to open the doors to future evangelism opportunities. There were many twisting and turning mountain roads to these villages, but it was worth all the trouble getting to the villages to minister to the people in the villages. We even got lost once and had to ask for directions from a shepherd.

The team took one day off in Greece. We visited some ruins, shopped, and went to the Mediterranean Sea. The team returned to America on Friday. It was a lot of work, but it was all worth it.