(a post written on tuesday morning but unable to be uploaded til thursday night :) i love pemba)
Hello beautiful ones!
I hope you are enjoying the beauty of the day where you are. Here in Pemba it’s another perfect day- sunny, breezy and hot :) and I am sitting in my hammock enjoying a peaceful, quiet morning before heading to class to hear Heidi speak.
Thank you for your prayers for outreach. It was phenomenal. Absolutely amazing. We loaded up our truck of about 15 Harvest Students & 15 Mozambican Bible School students and rode about 2 1/2 hours away from base to a village to share the love of Jesus. We also brought along Jesus, Father God, and the Holy Spirit so everything ran smoothly :) He led us in exactly how to speak and minister. Our team worked so well together as we set up tents in the King of the Village’s yard. (Just a reminder that we in the Kingdom are all royalty :) We went over to a large field and showed the Jesus Film, danced, preached, gave testimony and prayed for people to receive Jesus and to be healed from all sorts of illnesses.
To be honest the first night was a little difficult for me because as we went into the crowds to pray swarms of kids were coming up & mocking. This is a village that has been visited by Iris before and has a church plant so they knew a little of what to expect. Kids were coming up pretending to need prayer for deaf ears when they really could hear fine. There was just a lot of ridicule coming from the children & it was really making me upset because I hated to see the name of Jesus being mocked. But we prayed for people and we saw God doing miraculous healings then we headed back to camp to sleep after a very long day.
The next morning I woke up and opened the bible to several passages where Jesus is talking about children. Jesus reminded me that the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to the children. He reminded me how much he loves the children. He reminded me that he said never to hinder a child from coming him. His heart is so beautiful. I repented for my frustrations with the kids from the night before and I asked God to give me new eyes.
So throughout the day of Friday I spent my time helping with the children’s ministry- seeing kids truly enter into worship and prayer and have fun learning about Jesus. We played games and laughed and sang and gave out food. It was beautiful.
That evening as I sat in the dirt about to go up to pray for the sick I sat with two beautiful girls I had met earlier (maybe about 6 & 8 in age). As I sat there they laid their hands on me and began to pray. It was so beautiful. I felt the Lord preparing me to go and minister. So as I went out into the crowd I brought those 2 beautiful princesses with me & had then lay hands on everyone with me & pray with me. And guess what- the Kingdom came! Because it belongs to the children! We saw a woman with a hurt knee be healed, we saw headaches disappear, we saw a woman with pain in her elbow & knee be healed, we saw a man who couldn’t lift his arm because it was in so much pain raise his hand and thank Jesus for his healing! Others on the team saw deaf ears open up, dizziness disappear, we prayed for men to be set free of alcoholism. It was altogether beautiful. I just keep praising and thanking Jesus for letting me be a part of something so incredibly majestic. God is good.
So thank you for your prayers. Thank you for sowing into the kingdom.
I’m working on catching up on rest & enjoying all the goodness He has for me here each day. Each day is so full- full of His love and mercies and kindness and joy. Yesterday I got to treat my family of boys and their mom to a lunch of chicken and fries at Iris’ restaurant. Whew you should have seen their smiles. It was wonderful. We had a great time laughing & fellowshipping. They are a beautiful family. Thank you for your continued prayers for them. Yesterday their Mama and I had a really sweet time in church worshipping and praying & weeping together. I love that God’s Spirit works and moves through us even when we are unable to communicate. He still knows the cries of our hearts and he is able to minister despite and language barriers. Hallelujah.
Ok. I have a million other stories of how wonderfully glorious and faithful Jesus has been but I am going to sign out for now. I pray you each are enjoying the beauty of where you are. Please keep me in your prayers as I continue to build relationships with the students here in the school.
Sending you lots and lots of LOVE!
Kelly
