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Breaking Down Walls

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Pandemic, isolation, viruses, and fears have created some barriers between  brothers and sisters. All the online meetings and Bible studies have been great, BUT they cannot substitute the love and care shared when the family of Christ is physically together. 

Some still have a hard time getting to the church meeting so we take the church to them. It’s called the Caravan of Love. We fill up two to four cars of people and visit our love ones two of three houses a night. We sing with them, pray with them, share God’s word, and He is glorified! 



Some people are still afraid so we meet them on their sidewalk, in their yard, and little by and by we are breaking down walls, sometimes literally breaking down walls. 

 

At Silvânia’s house, after we had sang and prayed, David started talking about how she and her husband were saving up money to finish the wall of their house. My back was hurting after a long day, so I barely leaned against the wall they had. It gave way and WHOOOOMP! Scared me to death! Fortunately no one was on the other side, except sister Socorro’s car, and it only got hit with two or three bricks. Praise God no one was hurt! 

 

Later at Adriana’s apartment garage, I leaned against a column holding up a four-story building, people yelled, ”Be careful!” and moved out from under the building. Yes, they are going to remind me of the wall for a long time.

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