Friday, July 29, 2016
video of preparing to go share the gospel.
Reggie and Juliana went to the schools, Larry went to town to take care of a few things and then on to Lulwanda to take care of orphanage business. Drew went to the village and then went to a prison after lunch. Everybody made it out to village before the crusade started.
Juliana - went to three schools. Many kids stood up to accept
Christ. Juliana said she hopes that they
stood up because of a heart change.
Reggie and Juliana - Schools - the first school they went to was
a big group - over 200. About 20 something trusted in the Lord. They felt those kids were sincere. They were the oldest kids they spoke to. The
other schools were younger and almost everybody stood up. It is always hard to tell how many kids
really put their faith in Christ in the younger schools, but they all hard the
gospel (500 + kids). The team stopped
for lunch in a 5' x 10' room and ate a weird looking millet food (the school
team ate, not Reggie and Juliana). Two girls came in and Reggie and Juliana
asked them their names. Reggie and Juliana shared the gospel with them and they
accepted. Four more girls came in and they shared the gospel with them and they
accepted also. Reggie and Juliana didn't eat but were filled up.
Rosemary - had her first two people trust Christ today. She asked
them if they knew how to get to heaven and they didn't, so Rosemary told them
and they accepted.
Jennifer - highlight was when some kids came up to her today and
with sign language told her they loved her.
She then shared at seven houses where she had a combined 12 people
accept Christ.
Bill - Six people accepted the Lord, two did not and two others
said they would come to the crusade. Of the first six, two were at a different
hut and heard Bill sharing the gospel and ran over to hear it and gladly
accepted. When bill was waiting for the
van to pick him up, a young boy came over and asked Bill to come and pray for
his mom. His mom was a Christian, but married a Muslim man and had been going
to a Mosque to worship. She wanted to
come back to worship Jesus. The husband was a nominal Muslim and considered
himself a backslider. Bill prayed with her and helped her work through her
issue.
Pete - nobody made a decision to accept Christ, but had good
conversations with many people and is trusting that God will use it.
David - first house was a young mother and she accepted. Second
there was a little boy playing with a tire.
One little boy ran over the hill and came back with a woman. The
interpreters said she was a boozer, but she listened and accepted. The third
house was a Catholic and two of the three left while he was talking and they
continued to share with the father. He said he wasn't ready to accept, so they
prayed with him. The fourth house was a
Christian lady whose husband was ill and they asked David to pray for him. They
then shared at a pay as you go cell booth. Two people accepted.
Drew - had a man run from across the street and asked Drew to
come share with them. Drew shared his family picture with them and then shared
the gospel. Six people accepted Christ. Then he went to a man's house that had
a thorn embedded in his toe for over two years and it is badly infected. The wife was a believer, but she couldn't go
to church because she had to care for him. Drew went by a school and shared
with some kids. After lunch, he went to a prison near Tororo where there were
about 40 prisoners and 15 of them accepted Christ. The spiritual leader of the
prisoners had just been released that day and the guard told one that had just
accepted that he was the new spiritual leader. In the Ugandan prisons, the
prisoners are encouraged to organize to encourage one another in Christ. At the
big prisons they actually have an organized church consisting of a pastor,
elders, a worship leader, a secretary and a few other positions. All of those
positions are held by prisoners.
Don - had two ladies accept in the first two houses with a third
lady already being a believer. He then shared with an older woman and she said
she understood, but would not accept without her husband’s approval. She said
she would tell her husband everything that was told her when he got home and
would ask him to go to the crusade. Went to the business center after that and
shared with six men, two of which were playing cards. While sharing the two that were playing cards
got up and moved their table to another place.
Continued sharing with the rest and the one that seemed the least
interested jumped up at the end and accepted. The other three said they would
come by the crusade. Hopefully God will
nudge them in that direction. Shared at a beer brewing and drinking place with
around 10 guys. Shared and discussed
with them for around 45 minutes. None
accepted, but all were prayed for and encouraged to think about what they were
taught.
Testimonies were given by Rosemary and Bill. The focus on both
were the struggles associated with marriage because of our selfish sin nature
and only by the power of Jesus being able to work through that and the
resulting refining of each of us as we go through that process. They don't
really know each other and they didn't know what each other was going to
testify about, but God orchestrated back to back messages that were very much
the same probably to emphasize how important marriage is to Him. Both
testimonies were very powerful and were as applicable here as it would be back
at home. The crowd very much embraced the messages.
David preached a sermon that his dad wrote 65 years ago about
Joshua telling his people that they need to choose that day who they would
worship, the God of Israel, or the false gods of the Canaanite land God had
given them. He talked about the false
gods in all of our houses. Pleasure
gods, or money gods, or other things that detract us from worshipping the one
true God and stated that we all needed to make up our mind, who we were going
to worship. He ended it with song and had the whole crowd worshipping with him.
– Don
Thank you for praying everyone!!! God is good and He is faithful! We are praising Him for the opportunities to share His life saving message of salvation this week in the village of Musese. We will gather back together with Pastor Peter and his wife Eve on Sunday for church. Tomorrow we will spend most of the day at Lulwanda Children’s Home. We will give the kids their Crocs and spend time playing and visiting with ALL of the kids... even the older kiddos will be home from Secondary Schools to visit with us! I can’t wait! Thank you again for your prayers for our week... we are feeling each and every one of them! -- dee
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