ONE LAST BLOG: this morning rocked!

THIS MORNING WAS AMAZING!! Pastor Yuseff had asked Amy and I to do a kids service at the compound this morning. His church is there… it is a new church plant really only a couple of month old. It is on the same grounds as the Festival and training.  He usually has about 15 or twenty people, not counting the children.  On Thursday at the Festival he invited the children back for church today.  We had no idea what to expect.  I had given Amy the full reins for the service… she planned and executed the entire thing.  We worked together on all the ideas and the props like always but I had told her on Thursday that it was her service and that i would just serve in whatever way she wanted me to.
WELL, WHEN WE PULLED UP AT 9:20 (church starting at 10) there were already dozens of children there!  It’s like a movie… you pull up and the children start rushing the van as you drive along all smiling and waving like crazy.  they follow the van along the drive waving the whole time.  It’s awesome.  After church I told Pastor Yuseff that i hoped he was a children’s pastor… because THERE WERE OVER 250 CHILDREN WHO SHOWED UP FOR CHURCH!!!  Yes, over 250… just kids and there were only maybe 15 adults there.  And these kids will be back.  All of them were at the festival too.  and the vast majority are not from churched homes… either Muslim or the black magic/animist religion.
AWESOME MOMENT TODAY:  One of the team members who came with us from Omaha, Lynette, is from Burkina Faso.  Lynette, who has never translated for anyone while they were speaking until Thursday at the Festival, interpreted for us and also taught the Bible verse.  We did John 14:6.  Lynette wrote it on the black board and then had the kids read it.  She would erase a word or two then have them say it again and kept doing that until the backboard was blank and they were doing it from memory.  She did a fantastic job first of all.  and the children were all totally into it, all very proud to have memorized it and shouting it out with joy!
So, there we stand while 250 children, most Muslim and animist, are declaring, in one accord:  “Jesus said, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life and no one can come to the Father except through Me”!  It was an electric, anointed moment in history!!  so powerful.  As Uncle Reece would say, “Good God Almighty!!”
Then Amy preached up a storm with object lessons and then I closed and a bunch of children (all of them actually) wanted to receive Jesus as their Savior!

We are leaving for the airport shorty and will get to Omaha in about 30 hours!  Love you all!

PK and Amy

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