Grace Fellowship:

We are having a tremendous mission trip here in Colombia!

We arrived safely on Friday night in Bogota. Saturday was a great day visiting YWAM ministry sites in the Bogota metro area. We visited Bella Flor which is a neighborhood in southern Bogota made up mostly of squatters. YWAM and Darren McCrea’s (YWAM missionary) church sponsor a ministry to the kids of the area. They own a lot there next to a school where 6000 children go to school everyday.

We also got to see a team that is building a home in the area and we met Luis Beltran, the pastor of Darren’s church.

On Saturday afternoon we went to the Gold Museum in downtown Bogota and then went to an overlook in the mountains above Bogota.

On Easter Sunday, we were blessed to worship at Iglesia Cristiana Filadelphia del Puente Largo. This is a large evangelical church where Darren is a member. They are a very missions minded church that supports missionaries in Colombia, Cuba, China and other locations.

Sunday afternoon we flew to Medellin. Since Monday morning we have been working on remodeling a home that was given to YWAM Medellin. They want to move the girls from the orphanage into this home and give up the rental home where they live now. It has been great to work with the students from the orphanage many of whom are working side by side with us as we work on their new home. Both boys and girls have been anxious to help and be part of the remodeling team.

Last night we celebrated Ted King’s birthday at a local restaurant here in Medellin. The weather has been great! Medellin is truly the city of eternal spring!

We are looking for to going out into the streets of Medellin tonight to feed street kids.

Please continue to be in prayer for us and for YWAM Medellin and for the adults and kids there.

In Christ,

Kevin Maner