A short Story about how Samaritan Revival started

About a year ago, I was in Honduras where I work for the Good Samaritan Baptist Mission as a missionary and I decided that I wanted to put together a little group to sing for the students in one of our Christian Schools. We have about 4,000 kids in six different schools in Honduras and Nicaragua but in this one town, we have about 1200.

I figured that we could have a Tuesday Night devotional and we would try to get some of the parents to come and hopefully, they would ask Jesus to enter their hearts and they would saved. My daughter was blessed with a beautiful angelic voice so I figured that with two of three more singers, we would put together a singing group to lead the tuesday night services.

I really didn't now what type of music we should sing. The normal spanish christian music just did not feel right because most of it is just repeating the same couple of words 17 thousands times. I wanted our songs to send a messages. My mother came up to me one day and said "You need to sing Midnight Cry". We decided to translate it into spanish to see if we could touch peoples hearts with this type of music. When I say "this type of music", I mean a type of music that these people had never heard before.

Tuesday night came around and my daughter plus three young men stood up to sing. It just happened that we had a mission group from the U.S visiting us that night and when the song was over, you could of heard a pin drop. There was no clapping or shouting, just a calm, silent feeling all over the auditorium.

I went up to the pulpit and spoke for about 10 minutes and gave an invitation. Over 30 people came forward a received Christ as their savior. Some of the americans that was there started crying and they said that they had never felt such a spirit even though everything was in spanish. As the group sung Midnight Cry in spanish, they could hear the english words in their mind.

To make a long story short, we were invited to sing in a church in the Alabama. We did not even have a name for our group. Some would call us the Good Samaritan group, the samaritan singers, Honduras singing group, the samaritan and many more. We really did not care what they called us, we were just happy to be able to sing and minister to a church in the U.S.

This was in March of 2008. Today, we have recorded two albums in Nashville and we have a distribution deal with New Day Christian Distribution. We have traveled to over 60 cities in the U.S and in March we start a 50 city tour. Here is the incredible part of all this, we sing in only english speaking churches. We have sung in a couple of spanish churches but 99 percent of the churches we sing in do not know a word of spanish. We sing in spanish and we put the english words on a screen. Many times, people will come to the altar while we are singing.

Here is what I want all you to understand by this story. God has a purpose and a plan for all of our lives. I have no idea where this is taking us but we have decided to go through every door that God opens. Who would of ever thought that so many english speaking churches would open their doors to a spanish southern gospel group.

Every step that we have taken, we have learned many lessons and we have tried not to sing songs for ourselves but songs that we know will minister to the congregation. Sometimes, we will sing only SGM if that is what the church wants and loves. Other times, we will mix a little bit of Casting Crowns or a song like I can only Imagine if we feel like this is what touches the people more.

We have learned that we are always guest in a church and our main purpose should be to minister to the hurting ones that our listening to us sing.

Keep us in your prayers. Our only desire is to minister and as long as God opens up the doors, we Samaritan Revival will never give up the opportunity to spread the Word of God as long as he gives us strength.

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