Antigua Outreach

So this Saturday, we went out to town as a team to spread the Gospel.
We started prep by bringing backpacks full of bibles (in Spanish, of course), Gospel bookmarks, and Gospel bracelets. (These basically have colors according to the Gospel to represent it in an easy-to-remember way.)
We took these to town and began handing them out and, like always, the people are so eager to receive them!
It was simple: We prayed, then walked through the center square and gave them to anyone who we felt to. It's easy, though, because kids are EVERYWHERE, selling their bracelets & hairbands & whatnot, but as soon as you give something to one child, you're suddenly mobbed by 10 more, all reaching toward you saying, "Y yo, y yo! Y para mi hermana y mis padres!!"
I love sitting down with the kids, though, and taking the Gospel bookmark (which has the references to look up) to look up all the verses to read to them. All we can do is pray it makes an impact, that it really gets into their hearts. There are so many people who have a god, but not a relationship with THE God, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, so we have to be specific when we're presenting the Gospel.

The hardest part about this outreach, which still gives me goosebumps and a wrenching feeling inside of me, is when I'm with one of my team mates, Rachel, and we're surrounded by kids, and we reach into our backpacks for more bracelets, bibles, or bookmarks, and there's nothing left. We look over to our two other team mates, Gus and Sam, and mouth "Do you have any more bibles?" to see them shaking their heads no.
If you've never experienced having to turn someone down a bible because you don't have any more, it's heartbreaking.
All the thoughts are running through your head: "If I could have given this one kid a bible..he could have taken it to his family and they could get saved!" "I might not ever see him again..." "She might never get another chance to know Jesus.."

But all we can do is hope that by our actions, we've accurately represented the only Christ they may ever see, and pray Jesus will become known to them, into their heart, as their Lord and Savior.