Many of the people in San Salvador are living together common-law without getting married, because of the legal and financial requirements made by the state. We require new converts to be married before baptism since it was God who performed the first wedding back in Eden.
One of the meetings included a wedding of a couple who had lived together for eight years and had a child. That night while my colleague Isabel was doing her “Woman at the Well” monologue, the pastor came to me and asked if I would play the Wedding March for them to walk down the aisle. Several years ago I had played it but then I’d had music to look at. But now they needed me to do this and I prayed for God to help me play it competently without any music. Would you believe that a miracle happened and I was able to do it? It is amazing what God can do when we are willing to be His hands and feet (even His fingers on a keyboard!). He said we are part of His body.
The result of this wedding is that many others who were living together common-law now also want to get legally married. |
