MALI JAN09 - Pray for Village K to receive the Word
January 17, 2009 · Print This Article
Lawrence called at 5:42PM our time, Saturday. Everyone is well and God has blessed the villagers with the team’s faithfulness, even as He has blessed the team. In addition to the recorded report, we discussed a couple of other things:
- a new recorded translation of Genesis from a language missions group was right on target for the local dialect. The villagers were thrilled to hear the Word of God in their heart language. This will be terrific reinforcement for Penny who lives only about 30 miles (but 2-3hrs) away in Senegal doing this translation work.
- It Is Cold! Lawrence said his teeth were almost chattering as he was giving the report. He added that they have all been warm enough in their sleeping bags, however.
Thank you for doing your part in supporting these men and this effort through your prayers.
(By the way, the photos combined with earlier recordings are from our previous trips. There isn’t a way to send such files from the bush as of yet.)
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TRANSCRIPTION (click here for audio mali-report-01-17-09)
This is Lawrence calling from Village Z. It’s 11:20 at night here. We just got done with teaching time with 44 people from the village were here listening. We taught this morning about some of basics of church life here with some of the believers.
Then after a while we went over to neighboring Village K to meet and share over there for some time. Our group shared there once before back in June. But when we got there several people were out in the field, so they asked that we come back at 7:00 AM Sunday to share and they would all be there before they had to go work out in their fields. So that’s what we’re going to do tomorrow, Sunday, 7:00 AM in Village K. Then we’ll go on to Village Y after that. [Reports are that the Church in Village Y HAS been meeting together regularly so this will be very encouraging to the team. - ka]
The sharing time tonight consisted of the message from Acts chapter 2 giving others who may not have been here before when we shared the opportunity to hear the Gospel very clearly; and others learned about baptism in the Holy Spirit and how the believers were acting as the new church. We encouraged them and challenged them to meet together regularly which is something they have not been doing over the months that we’ve been absent. So we challenged them to do that, and they committed to do that from now on. There were no new decisions tonight, but many people heard the Gospel and we’ll see what happens. There’s been some hesitancy by the women here to be baptized. Because of some cultural reasons, they were uncomfortable with men doing that; so we’re trying to work through that situation.
We’ve had a good day, a very positive and encouraging response from our believers here. We’re looking forward to great things on Sunday!
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