MALI JAN09 - PTL! the tire & the baby
January 21, 2009 · Print This Article
Wednesday, 01-21-09
As an alternate plan was being discussed early this morning with the IMB at the Mali level, Lawrence called to say the bicyclist arrived, back from the town with a fixed tire, extra inner tube(s), and a pump. As he road up, the team was attempting to remount the flat tire that was left with the vehicle. They had finished a “bush repair” having used pieces of a team member’s sandal to patch a tear in the tire. ”How were you going to air it up?” I asked. ”We have a broken tire pump,” was the response.
PRAISE GOD the He knew who could fix the tire and who had the working tire pump!
They will be driving slowly and carefully through the tall grass (the result of the rainy season) back to the “road”. They will spend tonight with Phillip in his field hut, then back to Kayes via K-ba, stopping to greet and see how the Holy Spirit is working among other villages.
Finally, after spending tomorrow night in Kayes, they will drive on to Dakar on Friday and will have plenty of time for relaxing before catching a 3AM Sat flight home. They will arrive mid-afternoon on Saturday.
The villagers are marveling at the speedy recovery of the little girl who was burned. It appears there will not even be severe scaring, and all praise God for His mercy and goodness! Please join in that praise even as we see such evidence in our own lives.
Continue in PRAYER & PRAISE for the God’s display of His goodness - the salvation of many, the provision for our brothers & sisters, and for His care for His children and all of mankind, including the baby and our team.
TRANSCRIPT [click here for audio file mali-report-01-21-09 ]
This is Lawrence calling from the middle of nowhere, really. We’re on the road about 2 miles outside of Village Y. Thanks to many prayers, the young man on the bicycle finally reached our vehicle with the repaired tire about 1:15PM or 1:20PM here in Mali on Wednesday. So, it’s back on the car and we’re ready to roll and move on to the next stage of our trip.
Due to our delays we will probably have a change of plans as far as which villages we visit next. But that remains to be seen exactly what happens. The good part is last night when we were waiting, we didn’t really know what was going to happen. We had a good time of sharing with some of the elders, the chief and some of the old men in Village Y about handling adversity and trusting in God’s sovreignty.
I think by watching us in this situation they probably got more out of it than us teaching for hours. They saw the way we handled it with joy and peace in our hearts and that was a blessing to them. So certainly some good things will come out of this. In that village, we got to spend three nights with them and get to know the people really well.
Thank you so much for your prayers and we’ll give a report probably later tonight or tomorrow.
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