Day 2 Musakasa Seminar

Wednesday, Sept 1^st,  10:30pm Bungoma Time

Wow, what a day.  The seminar at Musakasa is surpassing all expectations.  Today we had about 40 people in our first two sessions where I taught about Jesus and the Samaritan woman and then in the second one about Peter walking on the water and how the spirit of fear can cost you everything.  What’s amazing is that Leonard sent out invitations to other Pastors a few weeks ago and invited them to this leadership seminar.  This is something that is not normal for the area because churches don’t really want to fellowship with other churches for whatever reason, sounds a lot like the US, huh?  Anyway, yesterday we had 13 other pastors show up form area churches.  We all had lunch together and talked and they all agreed that they needed to work together instead of following the traditions of not fellowshipping together.  They said they wanted to start a Pastor’s fellowship and join together to win the village of Musakasa and beyond for the Lord.  This wasn’t even part of the  plan, well I mean our plan but it was obviously God’s!  And then today about 10 more showed up because the pastors that were there yesterday had contacted them and said you have to come hear this mzungu (white guy) and what he is saying about all of us working together.  So today we had lunch with them and asked them about joining a fellowship.  They were all in agreements and we decided that tomorrow we are going to set aside time for the pastors to meet and I will get to address them about working together.  What’s amazing is that some of these pastors got the word and came from villages up to 40 minutes away.  After another great lunch (I may be the only person to come to Africa and GAIN 25 pounds) we had the ladies session.  As is usually the case, Jamie stole the show.  The word got out yesterday that today the women would have their own session today and that Pastor Tommy’s wife would be teaching it and that’s all we told them. So today when it was time to start the women’s session women showed up from all over the village.  Women that had never been to the church before but they heard about the women who was going to be speaking.  The church is 12′ x 22′ and when we started the film there was almost 80 women in there!  It was packed and the guys were standing at the door and looking into the windows to see what was going on.  Pastor Barasa interpreted and he had a ball, he inserted his own little  mini-sermons when he would stop to translate what was said.  At the end of the film he asked all the women to bow their heads and talked about salvation, when he asked if there were any women there who had never been born again there was about 10 that raised their hands and he led them in the sinner’s prayer. 10!   Bishop Ogara’s wife watched it when we got back and told her about it and now she wants to show it Saturday at the leadership meeting that I’m doing at EndTimes.  More souls won for Christ!  We had to leave before the Open-Air crusade was over tonight so we don’t know what went on tonight, it could be more.  I just finished dinner which included fried Arrow roots, yes that is a tree root.  It actually wasn’t too bad once you get past what it is.  Along with Ugali and cuckoo stew it was a good meal.  I’m loading pictures to FaceBook of just miscellaneous stuff that I have taken.   More to come tomorrow!  Love you guys, keep up the prayers!

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