I work with poor people in the outskirts of a large metropolitan area. The church should exist where people are. The landscape is hilly and there are kids everywhere playing soccer. There are bars at every corner and men attend them all day long. Drugs are easy to find and girls show off with minuscule shorts. Creativity lives in the outskirts many times. It's also easy to find cows, donkeys and mutt dogs sharing the roads with horse wagons, buses, cars and trucks. For the surprise of many, you will still see modern and fancy cars of those who got rich but never left their communities. The streets are narrow and full of holes but busy.

Last Saturday afternoon going from one personal Bible study to another, I came to the realization that I'm happy working where I work. I'd rather work here than downtown or at a affluent barrio. Downtown is empty, lifeless, only concrete and businesses. People have no time for God. At a rich barrio, people are sort of lifeless too, they don't need God. What is God for, if money can buy me "anything?" Here people are kind. They smile and wave to you. If you stop and ask about God, the world, and politics, they will chat with you a good while! They are open. One simple logical argument and one open Bible verse will suffice to convince them that there is a God (most of the time, hahaha! Complicated arguments and theories fly over their heads. They are simple. What they want to see your living, your live testimony. And that's enough.