A Great Transformation

Rev. Sanchez is in Peru and is reporting on the Family Camp Meetings with Pastor Gustavo from Lima!  Here is the first blog.

Greetings from Pastor Gustavo’s Family Camp Meeting in Peru! Everyone is so happy and excited for me to be here with them again this year. The food is wonderful and the fellowship has been fantastic. The church here has all types of things set up for the people to do from football to swimming. There are many fun events to cause families to interact together which is so needed in the day that we live.

The morning meeting was dynamic. The singing and the worship has caused people to really enter into God’s presence. Everyone sang like they were giving their own solo unto God. It was great! When it was time to minster I preached a message called the Great Transformation. I spoke about the process of the caterpillar to the butterfly. This message really touched the hearts of many people. Some were crying and others I found out after church were set free from things that have held them bound for years. Pastor Gustavo said, "You hit things that were right on target in many people lives. It was only God that could have done that.”

As I continued to minster we could feel God walking through the church and ministering to His people. He was doing a deep work in their lives. Some people got out of their seats and just laid on the floor crying out to God. The Lord was truly having His way and the service was in His hands. One of the brothers just started shouting and crying! He could not stop! He just kept shouting and crying and jumping! He left his seat and ran all over the church crying and shouting! The power of God starting falling in such a powerful way it is hard for me to explain. God’s presence was so thick it practically shook the place. The church was being saturated by the power of God! Elders and teenagers were falling out under the power of the Holy Ghost and the Lord just continued to move.

I finally got to the part of the message where the butterfly breaks out of the cocoon and spreads his wings to fly and the power of Pentecost hit that building one more time! People ran to the altar - some were filled with the Holy Ghost! Other were set free from past hurts and bondages, young people were praying for one another. There was great deliverance in the church this morning! People were praying in groups, people were praying for other people, it was amazing! Then God began to heal and to touch lives in ways I could never explain. One of the elders said to me after church, “It was like heaven came down and filled the temple.”  Many people came up to me and told me they had back pains, headaches that would not go away, shoulder pains and sickness, but when the presence of God flooded the church God took all the sicknesses and pains away! What a mighty God we serve! We spent from the morning til sometime in the afternoon in the presence of God around the altar. Young people came up to me still crying and sharing with me how God stirred them and how they have surrendered to God and are going to get involved in ministries of the church! What a great victory!

After service one of the pastor's sons came up to me, he was about 10 years old. He told me that on the way to service this morning he found a giant caterpillar just before he entered into the church and decided to bring it in. His mother testified and showed everyone the giant caterpillar and everyone started shouting and praising God. It was  like  God was saying to the people get a hold of my Word because a great transformation has taken place and now it's time to spread our wings and fly!

God bless you & Thank you for praying!
Rev. Melvin L. Sanchez