Friday, 7/7
Yesterday was quite warm, in the 90's but not as warm as Tuesday. Today is much more pleasant. Terry slept a lot last night and went to Peniel with us although he slept during most of the activities. Mari, Eugene, Kayla and Nicole might be having slight colds or allergies. We are about half way through our ministry and feeling more tired as we are no longer running on adrenaline, but He is our strength. The guys seem more focused on sleep but some of the girls are ignoring the rules and staying up (talking?) late even though there are no VBS crafts to work on at night. Pr'y for more discipline.
This morning, a few hundred meters from Peniel, our bus slowed and stopped. Jabez immediately helped our bus driver diagnose the problem and jury-rigged a solution. The accelerator cable had broken. A mechanic from the Peniel mechanic school has been summoned to provide a permanent fix to the problem. May the Lord use this for His glory. Yesterday, when our bus driver was helping VBS with cutting paper for crafts, he drew a heart and put a cross in the center. We do not know what this symbolizes but Moshi will talk to him in his heart language sometime soon.
The mechanic from the bus manufacturer came from 40 km away with a replacement part to fix the accelerator cable. Meanwhile, Eugene and Moshi found out our driver had not been sleeping well for the last two nights as he has been experiencing hearing from above and in fact he said he has found new life as depicted by his drawing yesterday, and said he has never been so happy as when he is with us.
After napping, Terry was all well and we couldn't keep him from singing the last set of VBS songs. We ate another great lunch at the school with terrific mangos for dessert. We then returned to the hotel for rest before meeting up with the local Seeds singers at 4:30 to do our daily devos. Since we "happened to be" reading Jn. 10 about hearing the Shephard's voice, we practiced the listening pr'yer exercise and several shared how blessed they were that someone who did not know (since their eyes were closed) spoke exactly what they were struggling through. We spent a few minutes debriefing our ministry time last night and left to go to Issac's church where his father pastors.
Tonight, Eugene directed the entire program, which was translated into Tamil. Besides the missing piece skit, Moshi shared about the first time he heard from the Lord at a time he was struggling with his faith walk and that encouraged him to renew his walk. Brendan also shared how he struggled with his faith after losing his mom to cancer, a perfect match for Mari's message about walking through the valley of the shadow of death (Ps. 23:4). We then spent about 20 minutes ministering to about half of the congregation of about 50 people. Among those who came up for pr'yer was our bus driver. This gave Tim the opportunity to ask him if he believed in J. as his only God. He said no, J. and someone else, so Tim emphasized the exclusivity of our Lord's claim, so he accepted this and pr'yed the sinner's pr'yer.
We shared a meal hosted by the members and had a joyful bus ride back to the hotel with our new family member. We found out our bus driver has been working this job for 20 years, is single and cares for his sickly 65 year old mother and has an aunt who knows our Lord. He is illiterate so we need to figure a way to help him grow. It was very warm tonight, 100 F when the meeting ended, but our hearts were even warmer due to this lost sheep being found.
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