Outreach

Thursday night we went on outreach to a village just outside Pemba, one flatbed truck, a 4x4, a sound system, about 50 people and a Jesus film (translated into Makua), and we saw God move amongst the people of the village. It was my first such outreach and will not be my last! The journey in was exciting, 40 people sitting on the back of an open flatbed truck driving down a dirt track for an hour, at least it didn't rain!!!!

There were many kids when we arrived, the pastors had broken into song just as we reached the village and the kids were waving and running to great us, it was amazing, it made me smile! The sound system was rigged quite quickly, but the condition of the equipment, ouch! At least it all works and thats the main thing, looks are not everything! We struggled to get the VCR/DVD player going, there was sound but no picture when we played a video, eventually after about an hour we tried to see if the DVD worked and YAY! It did, so we could start the film. I have never seen the -Jesus- film before, the one that is translated into most of the worlds languages, it was pretty good, the people loved it, they loved seeing the little fishing boats that the disciples used, they are very similar to the ones they use here in northern Mozambique!

After the film Heidi Baker preached a short message, and invited all the sick to come to the front, especially the deaf people. Only ONE child was brought forward. Heidi prayed and her ears were opened!!! What an awesome God we serve. After that more where brought and Heidi sat down right next to the sound desk, next to me and prayed for some more children, in total 6 deaf could hear and one girl, about 14 years old was deaf and mute - she could hear and speak!!! Her face shone as she smiled, it was amazing to see how Jesus touched her! I am not sure what other miracles happened that night, I was next to Heidi which is why I saw these 6, but I know that there were more! We packed up everything and shipped back home we got in at about 11:30pm (we had left at 4pm) exhausted and ready for bed. Thank you Jesus!