The Hunger  

By Chip Blair (Team participant)

There must be an unspoken, unwritten correlation principle floating around the universe that states that as human adversity and human needs increase so hunger for God increases proportionally. It seems that the less people have materially, or the greater the tyranny, oppression and danger they experience, the greater their capacity for reaching out to, depending on, and loving, God.

In my twenty-nine years as a Christian, I have never even come close to seeing the openness to the Gospel that I saw in Juarez, Mexico, in March 2009.

Everywhere we-total strangers and foreigners-went, people invited us into their homes to pray for them. People came up to us on the streets, asking us to pray for them, or to give them bibles and other Gospel materials. People we approached in the plazas wanted to hear what we had to say, and for many of them, they became Christians on the spot.

No where were we ridiculed. No where were doors slammed in our faces. In fact exactly the opposite happened. Many people came to Christ. Many people were healed including people who had cancer, ulcers and people who could not even walk began to run. This trip will be one to be remember for years as God did so many miracles from people coming to Christ to healings to Angels camping around us at all times to protect us.

On several occasions, we saw people that had just become Christian converts take the Gospel materials we had just given them, and start sharing them with their friends before we even left their neighborhood.

It was mind-blowing; like living the Book of Acts. Now, several weeks later as I write this, I'm still down-loading it, like a huge JPEG picture file that takes forever to download into your computer.

Only a great God like the one that we worship could take a city with 12 to 13 killings a day to not allowing a single person to be killed the whole time the team was there.  That is the protection of our great God!