Outreach Fever: Starring Jesus the Healer

Praise God! I'm updating via my cell phone, so I'll have to keep this short.

I went on my second bush outreach last weekend! We saw many people receive Christ both nights after the Jesus film and most were healed, though at times we had to pray two or three times before the healing manifested. The first night Heidi was there and I got to see her in action in this new bush village scene. After briefly preaching, she asked if there was anyone present who was deaf. A man in his 20s came forward. After about five minutes of prayer his ears were opened! Many received Christ and the crowd grew. Various other visitors, such as Che Ahn and Chad Dedmon and Mozambican believers from Pemba, gave different invitations for prayer: for people who suffer from nightmares, the deaf, mute, children with learning disabilities to pass their classes...people would raise their hand and two or more Moz Bible students, mission school students, visitors, or translators would go pray for them. I ended up praying with a lot of different combinations of believers. My Portuguese is improved enough I can tagteam with a Moz pastor or Bible student and actually KNOW what is going on!

The second night it was just my color group. We arrived in the village early enough to have light to set up and gather a crowd. I had learned some Makua worship songs since last outreach and I put them to work, singing loudly and dancing and getting participation from the 50+ children who were rapidly gathering. Moz pastors took over as my songbase quickly ran out and I noticed older women off to the side of the clearing. I used my few Makua phrases, greeting and introducing myself, before sending them into gales of laughter by taking pictures of them and showing them their image in my digital camara.

I had so much fun, I've jumped at the opportunity to head back out tomorrow with my roommate Caitlin's color group! I wanted to tell you also of a pretty amazing healing service God ambushed me with, but it will have to wait! Mbaka iwara iquowe! ( Later!)