A Word Called "WOW"

Tuesday the Lord displayed his majesty in mighty ways! We started the day by splitting into two teams. One of our teams went to Kisumu to pick up supplies while the other team went to a high school to share the Gospel with the 11th and 12th graders.  The Spirit moved through Tyler to deliver a particularly powerful message to the students. Our teams then combined to meet with the leaders of the Vokoli Friends Church and High School. We encouraged them to pray about and look into building a local P.E.T. factory. God provided two P.E.T.s to bring to Kenya, and yesterday we were blessed to give Ken at Mambai Friends Church one of the P.E.T.s. He and the community appreciated the gift very much. Ken has suffered from Polio and the inability to use his legs his whole life. Now he can transport himself where he wants to go. From now on Ken is a moving testimony that God loves equally the least and the greatest in the world’s eyes. After the meeting with the church leaders, one team went back to Mambai Friends Church to worship God through praise and through their excellent choir. Kim and Heather presented the Bible Cloth (which explains the story of the Bible through pictures), Steve admonished the Believers to read the Bibles that our team brought the church and community and to live our their faith, and Theresa from Special Ministries lead many in a prayer of salvation and deliverance.


The other team went to the Wagelevi Primary School and met with the teachers and students. We were able to give 200 Bibles to the children, as well as pencils and Bible verse bookmarks. We told them that we would be back at 6:30 in the evening to show the ‘Jesus Film’. The children and teachers were very encouraged. The Physical Education teacher was happy to receive 2 soccer balls, also.

After our worship at the church and ministry at the school, the teams traveled with some of the church leaders to dinner. In the meantime, the Jesus film played in the Luragoli language at the church for those who didn’t see it the previous day. In the evening, we brought the film equipment back to the Wagelevi School and played the Jesus Film in the school yard. We prayed for no rain, but the rain came about an hour into the film. We didn’t know why God chose to allow rain until we got back to our missionary hotel in Kisumu. Because Sango and Tom couldn’t access their room and their keys were nowhere to be found, they had to call the worker, Eunice, to help. When our brother Walter (from Special Ministries) came to help us access the room, God put it on Walter’s heart to respond to Eunice’s inquiries regarding our evangelism. Walter shared the Good News and a new Bible and Eunice accepted Christ as her Lord and Savior! At that point we realized why God allowed the rain to fall on the village where we played the Jesus film – God used that chain of events to lead one stray sheep back to the flock. We were all so excited that Sango exclaimed, “Thank God there’s a word called ‘wow’”!!

 
 

 John & Kimberly from Into the River [http://www.intotheriver.us/]

Set up to show the Jesus Film outside

Tom handing out Bible to the children at Wagelevi

Tyler with some teachers from Wagelevi:  the person in red accepted Christ when Sango came in 2007 and was very glad to recieve a copy of the Bible

Tyler and Mr. Amisi speaking with the Students at Vokoli Girls Secondary School

Walter with Eunice at the Hotel - she accepted Christ tonight