Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Outreach

The last couple of months have been spent with Iris Ministires staffing Holy Given School in Pemba Mozambique. We just got back from a 2,5 weeks outreach in the bush.

It took us 2 days to get there, in the back of the truck - sore backs, laughter, fun.... very bumpy. Worth all of it, seing what God did in peoples lives.
The local church we connected with, went with us on the outreaches into the bush. 20 westerners, 7 Mozambicans and about 10-15 people from the church also Mozambicans.
We would drive into the bush, have a meeting with worship, preaching and then praying for people. Then at night the Jesus movie would be shown at a different location. After the movie, there would be ministry time where they could get prayed for and majority of the people wanted that. We saw many healings; stomach aches, heart problems, blind, deft and dumb, knees, chest pain.... it was amazing to see God at work and the way people reacted to the healings.

On the 24th of December there was a huge celebration. 15 couples got married and afterwards - food for everybody. The team helped to slaughter the goats (10), clean the rice and beans - serving the newlyweds - then the children and the others. They think that about 600 people got food that day. We had to wash the dished in between the servings, cuz we didn't have enough!! It was a lot of fun.

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