Sunday, June 7, 2009

The Welcome Wagon

Today kind of felt like we were the welcome wagon to Sinai Baptist in Kacholola. Kendall and I have enjoyed asking people in Nyimba to come to church with us. Last week, our friend, Sarah from Canada came with us and this week Kendall's friend, Jumbe and our guard, Paul came with us. It was so fun to have two new friends and Zeria come along with us. Not only is it encouraging for them to attend another church, but it encourages the church we attend. Sinai Baptist was a church full of young people and the leaders there are excited to learn from Kendall's leadership training time twice a month. As we greeted the church members, our hearts were broken to see so many witchcraft charms around the necks of children. Immediately, I began to pray that God would speak through Kendall in a mighty way to convict them of this incredible evil. Praise the Lord that 20 people prayed to receive Christ today! We were so overwhelmed with the joy and happiness that this church had for our attendance today. It was a truly awesome day of worship and one filled with an amazing ending with 20 new brothers and sisters in Christ!
Mount Sinai Baptist Church in Kacholola

My precious blessing from the Lord and my sister in Christ, Zeria


Paul Masiye ( our guard) and Jumbe (Kendall's friend)
Two of the leaders of the church dancing and singing

Mount Sinai Baptist seeing us off.
The entire church always goes with us to our truck and wishes us safe travel as we prepare to depart. It is like leaving family after a wonderful time of fellowship.
Videos: Boys drumming and the congregation singing as we walked to our truck

3 comments:

The Jones Family said...

Your blog brings back such a good memories of when I went to Ghana. They would walk us to our vehicle sending us home with gifts and then the kids would run alongside us as we drove away! I'm so thankful you are there serving!

I love the videos!

Stephanie said...

how fun that lindsey commented on this, too...i was so just taken back to our trip to ghana, too!!! LOVED the live footage of those precious people! do that more often, girl!
LOVED it! and you!

Its just me said...

I really liked this post...loved the video. I shared it with my kids and my son liked the drums...We leave to Zambia in 24 days...I am sooo excited!!!