This weekend will be what is known as 48 hours of love. Around 12 couples will participate in a weekend of reflecting, writing, listening to various testimonies, eating good food, having good conversations and being showered by God's love in very practical ways with lots of surprises.
Some will arrive content that they have the opportunity to have a weekend away free of responsibilities, looking forward to a weekend full of surprises. Others will arrive, a bit concerned because they have left children for the first time. Others arrive with a lot of tension between themselves, troubled, maybe not even with the desire to be there. It is challenging.
All of these couples will have had their challenges in their relationships. Some will have experienced strong betrayal, disappointments, unresolved conflicts. For most of us in a marriage relationship we have our testimony of the joys, challenges, frustrations, memories of happy times and the here and now. Life changes and we change with it. Sometimes for the better and other times for the worst.
What all these couples need is to know that they have a Saviour, Jesus Christ who desires to walk through every single one of these moments with us. They will hear the gospel this weekend. Pray that they will have open hearts to respond and accept the mercy, grace, forgiveness and love that their Creator, Saviour and Redeemer wishes them to encounter.
48 Hours of love has been an instrument of the Lord's here in Chile for many years now. In our church we have a small group meeting of 8 weeks that follows the weekend that encourages the couples to continue in their encounter with each other as couples, but more importantly in their encounter with Jesus. This is a crucial part of this ministry. Pray that the couples will be committed to these groups, that they will grow in Christ and accept him as Lord and Saviour.
