Oscar Leiva Mar 25, 2011
God's Flashlight
We feel so blessed and honored to take God's Word to the people here. God's Word is a "lamp", right? A more modern term would be a flashlight. Matt and I have talked many times about the church being a "light on a hill" and that we sometimes feel like we are God's "flashlights" going into the trenches and the caves looking for those who need light. That is exactly what our ministry is. We go every week to two different towns and share God's Word with some very needy people. We never know what we are going to run into. They are inundated with dark problems such as abuse, suicide, prostitution, hate and drugs. This last week, we went to do our study at Emi's house just to find out that two of the people had had a huge fight. They were yelling at each other and the atmosphere was full of insults. Neither wanted to take the first step at reconciling. After talking with them for about an ...
Oscar Leiva Feb 04, 2011
Did you survive the storm? Were you one of the people stranded out in the blizzard? Well, in the Leiva home, we were without heat for about 13 hours, yet had limited output of electricity. I was awoken by an electrical shutter or flicker, which disabled our furnace on Tuesday morning around 2am. It was already 56 degrees Fahrenheit in our home (that is the temperature that we set it at night, low isn’t it?). And around 3:30am, I went downstairs and tinkered around with the furnace to see if I could possibly jar it back on. I wasn’t in luck, what do I know about furnaces? So, how did we survive? We spent the whole day boiling water on the stove top just to maintain 50 degrees Fahrenheit in our house. Yes, it was so cold we could literally see our breath. Occasionally we had to run laps from the front of our apartment to the back to stay warm. Obed really didn’t notice the cold but loved the idea of running from his toy box to the back door. Although this was an ...
