Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, most of the new members fell away. An evangelistic series resulted in 14 baptisms and the group acquired land and began building a church. The work in Chan Pine Ridge began to gain a foothold a few years ago when Miguel and Vilma Chavez, former volunteers at MOVE, felt a burden to take up the work in that community and they began regular house-to-house visitation, community service projects and small group meetings. We’ve also been insulted by a couple of drunks, but many of the people are actually quite receptive!” I replied. The heckling got so bad they ended up suspending the meetings! So how have people been treating you?” “Quite well actually! They haven’t chased us out of town yet! We’ve experienced some prejudice from a few families in they way of suspicious glances and comments like “we have our church” when we try to visit them. Someone even rubbed Pica Pica on the upholstery of their vehicles!” “Wow, what’s Pica Pica? Sounds like something itchy!” “Yes, it's a poisonous plant with hairy pods and it gives a terrible rash! Besides that they would disrupt the meetings and even cut out the lights. “In fact, there was a group that tried to hold evangelistic meetings there, but they got sabotaged. “I used to colporteur in Chan Pine Ridge and the people were really closed-minded and even downright rude!” the brother continued. I had met him for the first time at the church in Chan Pine Ridge that very morning, and now we were enjoying a fellowship meal at the MOVE campus. Bump, Mr.Stories from Kody Kostenko at MOVE dateline 02/15/18 “I still can’t believe that there is an Adventist church in Chan Pine Ridge!” His comment caught me by surprise.
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