God's light continues to shine on Mt Elgon
Jambo Sana from Kenya. Yesterday was an amazing day. I did a girls conference on Mt. Elgon. I talked about issues that all teenage girls face including abstinence. Towards the end of the conference the rain began and the sound of the rain on the iron sheet roof of the church was deafening. We had to stop and wait. I had a strong sense that I was to extend an invitation to accept Christ. The problem was, no matter how loud we shouted (me and Rispa my friend and interpreter) the girls could not hear. When the rain falls on Mt. Elgon, it lasts for a very long time and does not let up. I prayed that if this was something God wanted me to do, He needed to provide a way. Suddenly the rain stopped!! I asked the girls to bow their heads and if they have never accepted Christ into their lives and if they wanted a relationship with God and to live God's way vs. the worlds way to raise their hands while their heads remained bowed. About 50-60% of the girls raised their hands. I thought they must have misunderstood so I asked again for those who have never made this decision, to keep their hands raised. Not one girl lowered their hand. I then asked if their were any girls who had not remained sexually pure but wanted to renew that commitment from today forward to remain pure until marriage to raise their hand, almost every remaining hand in the room went up! It was incredible. As soon as I finished praying for these beautiful young ladies, the rain started to pour again. God is so amazing!
We are having a wonderful time with Lucy. We have had some great conversations. The more time we spend together, the more she is talking-some English, some Swahili. We got Lucy into a new school, the one we were wanting to get her into so today we took her school shopping. She is always so grateful and only asks for the things she needs. She is a good girl!
We took the boys from the first boys home that we started along with Philip Hamer to our traditional dinner at Pinewood. The amount of food they consumed was insane. They are such great boys. Bramwel won't eat Chinese food because they eat dogs in China but he ordered a whole fried fish, plucked the eye out and ate it!! UGH!!!!!!! We had a great time with them.
We are having a great time and accomplishing a lot. Please continue to pray for us. So far, we have remained healthy but I should not call the elephants until we are up in the tree!
We are having a wonderful time with Lucy. We have had some great conversations. The more time we spend together, the more she is talking-some English, some Swahili. We got Lucy into a new school, the one we were wanting to get her into so today we took her school shopping. She is always so grateful and only asks for the things she needs. She is a good girl!
We took the boys from the first boys home that we started along with Philip Hamer to our traditional dinner at Pinewood. The amount of food they consumed was insane. They are such great boys. Bramwel won't eat Chinese food because they eat dogs in China but he ordered a whole fried fish, plucked the eye out and ate it!! UGH!!!!!!! We had a great time with them.
We are having a great time and accomplishing a lot. Please continue to pray for us. So far, we have remained healthy but I should not call the elephants until we are up in the tree!
2 comments:
its so great to read your blog; we wish we were still there with yall, even if meant being sick on the mountain! hope all is going well for you and that He continues to reveal Himself in amazing ways... well duh, He is amazing! love you guys!
p.s. yall don't happen do have a strange rash, do you?
Michele, great job ministering to the young ladies (and being such a good mom to Lucy)! Our God is so faithful, even in the rain. In Argentina, we were scheduled to build a church in an indigenous village. We would have to cancel those plans if it rained. So the night before, we petitioned God that He would not let the rain fall until we were done. Even though the sky (and the weathermen) said it would rain, God held off the rain until the minute (literally) we got in the van to drive away from the village. Then, a week later, He stops rain so you can lead young women in a prayer to accept Jesus. Hallelujah for our awesome God!
Blessings,
Tasha
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