Oh what a day of worship it was...part one

Sunday morning we arrived in Jocotenango to join the caravan to a river outside of town toward Esquintla. At the present time, La Iglesia Bautista Torre Fuerte has no pastor. Our friend, Luis Garcia, leads the group of believers but is not able to baptize because he is not ordained so he requested assistance from David.

We traveled about 20 minutes down the mountain from Antigua before exiting the main road to Guadeloupe. From here, we crossed the river Achiguate

one time

two times

three times

and arrived at our place, a mineral springs, only to find it was closed due to a lack of water. So we continued across the river 

one more time to a deeper area of the river where we could hold baptism.

                                      

Walking down the trail to the river

Praising the Lord

Devotional

First baptism

Second baptism

Third baptism

Fourth baptism (the man to the left is his father)

Fifth baptism

Sixth baptism (husband of the fifth person baptized)

Sweet precious couple with three young daugthers

David praying after the baptism.

David and Luis with people who were baptized.

This lady was overcome with emotion at times, the last young man was her son.

After the baptism, it was time to enjoy the swimming.

Obviously these young boys come to this place quite frequently...

because they climbed up the mountain backwardly and jumped into the water.

 We leave you with a portion of David praying with the roar of the river as the background.