A busy week ahead

I was hoping to have the building ready to go before Sunday (tomorrow) so that I could have all week to pass out invitations to our inaugural service. We have gone to about 10,000 homes so far, but our city has a total of about 20,000, so there is still a lot more homes that I would have liked to have gotten to before February 10th. I think that with Andres' help we can get to about 800-1,000 homes a day. In 6 days that gives us a potential 6,000 more homes with invitations. That is a lot of work and a lot of sore muscles! I just want to get the word out as much as we can. We have been asking folks in our church to invite friends, family, and neighbors. I put fliers up in the windows of the building (this may not sound like much, but people here really look at papers in windows!). I have been carrying fliers in my shirt pocket handing them out everywhere. Also, check out this picture for another way I decided to use.

This is a newspaper ad that I took out. In our city people really listen to the radio, watch news on t.v., and read the newspaper. There are two local papers: El Divisadero and El Diario Aysén. They each print 3,000 copies of their paper a day except for Sundays they don't print a paper (very different from the U.S., I know). As a general people don't buy both papers so I decided to take out this ad in both papers. The days when most people buy the paper are on Mondays and Thursdays, so I took out ads in both papers for two Thursdays and one Monday before the inauguration. That is an extra 18,000 copies of invitations that are getting put out there!

I am hoping to see 150 people at our inaugural service. That would mean that it would be crowded standing room only. I know that it is high hopes. I have passed out thousands of fliers for things in the past and not seen one person show up...so I realize that these are high hopes. I truly believe though that it is not a difficult thing for God to bring that many people to the first service. However, even if only 5 people show up I will be so thankful for those 5 and they will get the royal treatment! I am bubbling over with anticipation!