Ministry Partners,
What a good night’s sleep I had last night but woke at 6 am. What a same when I could have slept til at least 7 or 8 because breakfast was not until 8:30. However, I used the time on the computer as Alfred has me using his MTN WakaNet unit to get on the internet and then I connect to Canby Foursquare Church’s VPN, which lets me work on my post for the day and then post it to FB. Otherwise, if I happen to just have weak Wi-Fi at the hotel we are staying at I am unable to that. But I used it so much he had to go purchase a new card for the unit which is happily displaying blue lights.
There was no road yesterday so we followed a grader.
Alfred knocked on my door at 8am and invited me to sit outside, on this beautiful morning, to sit on the small veranda with chairs outside our rooms. After a bit, Aaron also joined us. How nice to have some time to just talk about the bible or whatever since we are only doing one prison today and it is this afternoon. Alfred opened our conversation by sharing about his morning devotions in John 20. Before we knew it the “breakfast at 8:30” tome arrived. There was no coffee for the guys so they had tea and although there was spiced hot water, there was no hot milk so they could not make African tea but Aaron put so much honey in his tea that he was really having a bit of water with his honey. I like plain tea so I had to ask them to replace my spiced water with plain water. Our breakfast was not buffet but what they chose to bring us: watermelon juice, 1 egg fried, fried potatoes with bits of carrot and samosas which Aaron and I saved for lunch.
I also saved, from last night the remainder of my dinner, some very bad chicken pizza, there was no beef. As usual, I asked them to use extra sauce and extra cheese. Otherwise, the pizza is very dry and the cheese is almost non-existent. Well, the sauce came in a bowl and there were carrots on the pizza. Alfred asked the cook twice if he knew how to make pizza and he assured us that he did. For sure, what he knew was different from what we knew. I tried to share with the guys but after a small bite they left the rest of their piece. I will leave it covered in the sun for a bit to heat it up today, I may end up having a PP&J sandwich.
I spent the rest of the morning working on photos I have taken, to delete bad ones, so I could free up space on my card. Yesterday, it started giving me messages so I have no idea what is happening because the card is 32gb and only shows on the computer 3 gb used. I brought 2 older cameras with me but both have failed. If anyone has a good camera they no longer use because you use your phone, I would be glad to take it off your hands.
Yesterday I tried to get a photo of an interesting phenomenon but my camera could not capture it. It was very hot yesterday and while we were traveling on the dirt roads, it rained a bit. When the rain hit the hot packed dirt, a mist rose over the road like throwing water on a hot frying pan. And then there was the time that the dirt roads were so rough that as we passed a heavily, high loaded motorcycle, the young man lost control and headed for the left front fender/door where I was seated as all I could say was, “Jesus”. We all saw that he was going to hit us but somehow God protected us as the motorcycle fell over away from the van. It was so loaded that I am sure the man could not stand the bike up without unloading it first.
At 3:30 we headed to Moyo prison, only a 20 min. drive. When the O.C. was explaining to Aaron how to get there he said, “When you get through town just go up and after a while go right.” After hanging up Aaron broke into such laughter that he could hardly drive and said, “Just what does ‘go up’ mean, go up where and which right turn, there are so many.”
Aaron and I started the crusade as Alfred went in to meet with the O.C. who was not going to allow us the full time we needed, were able to do most of our program but we were stopped before we could do the apology section as the prisoners needed to eat their evening meal. The languages spoken today were Swahili and Mandi. Alfred and Aaron took turns translating into Swahili and the inmate translator for Mandi language was excellent as he even followed my movements.
Right after I started preaching a Muslim man, that was seated at the edge of the other inmates, got up and went to the corner of a building that was close by and started chanting a Muslim prayer. Aaron saw a number of Muslims that were in front of me look at him but they never got up when he motioned for them to join him. Aaron sid the power of the Holy Spirit was very evident today through the entire crusade.
There were only three women brought in and they smiled broadly, as I gave each of them a donated scarf. The Holy Spirit worked again today as they responded to the Salvation and Forgiveness invitations. I wish I could adequately tell you the change I see on the inmate’s faces after receiving Christ as Savior.
Alfred has ordered dinner for us but because I know that, every kind of meat is so tough here I hope I can eat it. The animals here just do not have any fat on them and are so lean and meat needs to be fat marbled a bit to not be tough. Dinner for all of us was really bad tonight and it was evident when the guys could not finish all their dinner nor did I as they put some kind of hot pepper in mine.
It is now 8:30, time for me to shower and go to bed.
Please continue to pray for the salvation of inmates, for our fresh Holy Spirit anointing and our safety
That none would be lost,
Arlene
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