What a beautiful day it was today. I began the new comers class at Abundent Life Community Church. It was good. The only Hispanic in the room out of 10 people. All the rest were anglos. As I sat there and listen to pastor Lynn talk about the church's beliefs. I couldn't help to think about how in the last population statistics I looked at showed how the Hispanic population is growing in southern California. That was one of my thoughts during the meeting. It was good.
After the class was over I came back to the hood to pick up some of my guys. Went back to the service and listend to pastor Ron give a sermon about being empowered by the Holy Spirit. Dig it!! Before we left to take the kids out to lunch, Jill Davis one of the church memebers invited us to lunch over at her house. Had a good time. To my surprise we had quite the group there. There was I, missionary in Northwest Pasadena, born in Mexico, there was Gloria and Jashua, both Korean missionaries to Indonesia, Sunday, a pastor from Nigeria and Jason a soon to be doctorate in Math at Cal Tech, plus Jill and her husband and my guys. While we discussed environmental issues and the need to reach out to the poor and how we are doing it, the kids deligthed themselves playing game cube and eating a bowl of vanilla and mango ice cream topped of with some miniature chocolate chip cookies. It was good.