Berazategui neighborhood ministry

Yesterday afternoon I assisted in a neighborhood ministry at the Berazategui church building for a couple hours.

Several people from the church came for the ministry, each person who came had a different job in it. As the people from the church worked, people from the neighborhood would come in to the building, check in at a main table, and sit down and wait. At the main table was a box for logging each person who had come to the church for this ministry in the past and logging what scriptures had been read with them in the past. The passages read with them are in Genesis, Luke, and John, and each time a person from the neighborhood comes, they read a new passage (a chapter, or half a chapter) until the book is finished. Then the person from the church who read with them prays with them for a minute or two. Next, the person from the neighborhood turns in a bag they've brought, along with an index card identifying who the bag belongs to, and get the bag back in a few minutes, full of food things.

So far, this has been one of the ministries that I´ve been most excited about. This is mostly because of the number of people who come to it. Most of them are genuinely interested in hearing what is read to them, once they sit down.