El Paso Day 6

Here are some photos from the outreach at the Rec. (Wayne announcing the raffle)

Today was our final full day in El Paso. A group of us went back to UTEP and another group did Pay it Forward. Misti and I went to UTEP to share our faith. We really wanted to keep trying even though we hadn't had much luck the past few days. We came down to El Paso to share our faith and this seemed like the thing God was guiding us to do. I approached 3 guys that were alone. The second and third guy were already shared with by some people in our group. The third guy was named Zo. He knew about the Rio and was excited to check it out this Saturday. I'm praying he really does go. (I later learned that Paul and Kelsey had shared the Gospel with him the day before and he had accepted Jesus as his savior. Awesome!) We approached 19 people and shared the Gospel with 7 today.

Then we got ready for the outreach at Westside "Rec" park. We had free pizza, games, raffles and some other activities. The turnout was pretty good. We had about 130+ Franklin High School kids. They had an early release that day. It was a nice day for it. I was able to talk to a few kids about church and the Pay it Forward campaign. There was one kid that I talked to for a bit. He was searching for something. He was intrigued by the Rio slogan which is similar to the Rock's "Interested in God, not religion?" Our conversation was cut short, but I gave him a tract later. I will pray that he reads it.

We had a team dinner out at a Mexican restaurant called Taco Tote. It was fun to all go out together. We then went up to Transmountain Pass to watch the sunset. We also went to Rim road to pray over the city. We had some time to reflect on the trip. It's been great serving along side each other. I think we've all grown this week. Each trip has some special moments where chills run up my back. That night on the mountain was one of those moments. We looked over the thousands of lights and prayed for the Lord to work in El Paso. We also sang "Praise God" together. It was a beautiful night. We were dreading that we had to leave in the morning. It went so quickly.



The beautiful sunset from Transmountain and the city lights from Rim Road.