{FECA Vision Choir} Report 14

Tuesday, 7/11

Our plan for the next four days is to go to four different private schools and do a two hour program from ten to noon, no VBS. Then take a break, and do an evening program with as many as eight of the local Seeds singers (plus Joanne, Nancy and Jabez). Prem was a young man, a bass, who met us at the airport and we also met his father and older sister at the truck stop yesterday. When possible, we are starting later as Khammam is a small rural town operating more on Chinese time, so we will be implementing the slogan started by a Chinese P'stor from two generations ago (someone let me know if it was Leland Wang or Andrew Ho), "no Bible, no breakfast" the week we are here.

This morning, everyone seems quite well, Kayla's rash is almost gone, and Allison checked after she woke up to find her legs a matched set. We met for devos at 7:30 and did yesterday's passage, ate breakfast at 8:15 and left around 9:30 - joined by Prem, another bass named Keen, and an alto, Blessy - for a private school run by the Church of South India an hour or so from where we stay. There were about 50 children at this school, but since we started an hour late, we ran a shorter program with only two VBS songs, the puppet skit, and Terry and Nacy sharing their testimonies. Prem, dedicated at birth by his parents, and though only a young man in his twenties, already leads several hundred house churches and did all the translating. Mari spoke a short but powerful message based on Jn. 10 coupled with the parable of searching for the 1 lost sheep. TK then asked those wanting to hear the Shepherd's voice to raise their hands and we got a chance to pr'y for most of the group including several of the teachers. We returned to our hotel by about 2:15 to eat lunch and wash some clothes. We met up at 5 PM, joined by Sweety, an alto, along with those we met this morning. We did our devos on the fruit of the Spirit and spent a few minutes pr'ying for Eugene's left leg, which we witnessed grew about a cm. to match his longer right leg. We then drove to join a house church meeting in a village about 45 minutes away, walking the last couple of hundred meters because the alley was too narrow for our bus. The place we met was the covered porch of a house of a believer, the porch perhaps 10 by 20 ft. It was drizzling when we got there but stopped when we started. There were about 60 between us and the congregation crowded on the floor (a few of us sat on plastic chairs), with perhaps another ten men standing outside the porch area in the open. The service started with their singing two worship songs in their language, Telugu. We just stood where we were sitting on the floor of the porch and sang several songs acapella. Hannah gave a wonderful testimony and Keen, a local youth, shared about his miraculous birth. There was no room for the puppet skit so we went directly to Mari's preaching from Jn. 5 about the healing of the invalid by the pool at Bethesda. Most of the congregants wanted pr'yer so we spent the next 15 minutes laying hands and blessing these wonderful people, and returned to our hotel about 10:15, too late for dinner, so we just ate whatever snack we have (mostly granola bars and jerky) and went to bed.

Some of the people we met here are amazing. One young man, slightly past 25 years old, is a disciple maker and helps trains 5 groups of about 1000 leaders each (5000 total) who in turn each disciples 10 to 20 grass roots (church) leaders who pastors an average of 10 house churches. Another man we met, let's call him MJ to protect his identity, apologized to TK because he said it has been two years since God told him to baptize 5 million in five years, and he has only baptized 1.5 million people (not he himself personally, but those he is discipling) so he is behind schedule. But in fact, church growth is taking place by multiplication and this growth happens geometrically and not linearly, so he is actually ahead of schedule if growth continues at its present pace. PTL.

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