Team Zambia 2018- Day 7
THE BIRTH OF A CHURCH
It was so gratifying to see God drawing people from the
compound to the new church this past Sunday. The first service at Lusaka Bible
Church Makeni Villa was a wonderful blend of music, vision casting by the new
pastor and the Word of God. (In fact there were three sermons! They say: “we
don’t come to church to leave.”)
Since there was no choir yet, which is a necessary part of
any African service, Pastor Joseph, his wife, and their 7 children provided
special music. The head deacon, Mufaya,
also led the church in hymns. We also
joined in with special music as the “Mzungu Choir”- a term of endearment Africans
use for white people.
NEW BELIEVERS ATTEND
FIRST SERVICE
It was great to see the people we had led to Christ
attending the very first service. Two of the women in attendance, Miriam and
Angela, are part of a family of 4 who all came to know Jesus this week. The young men that Donnie asked you to pray
for were there as well! Mr. Muchunga and
Mr. Garver were in attendance as well.
One of the teams prayed with Mr. Garver on an issue with his job and Mr.
Muchunga accepted Jesus and hoped he would soon have a Bible so he could begin
to go and tell others about Jesus as well.
NUMBERS DO TELL A
STORY
Our 5 teams drew our Gospel presentation 149 times, for an
audience of 356 people, and saw 178 people pray to receive Christ. One of our teams was quoted as saying “You
could live your entire life and never see anything like this.”
YOU KNOW YOU’RE HOME
WHEN
You know you’re home when you see the orange and white
Whataburger sign. It’s nice to be back
on solid ground after 22+ hours of flight (7 hours and then 22 ½) enjoying a hamburger
Texas style (which was much better than the zebra burger Donnie had on Saturday).
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