{FECA Vision Choir} Report 15

Wednesday, 7/12

Because the hotel restaurant breakfast is not used to serving a large crowd, we met for breakfast at 7:30 so we could leave by 9:30 (so much for the "no Bible, no breakfast" plan). We were joined today by two more members of the local Seeds team, John, a tenor, and Kumar, a bass. We drove an hour and a half to get to a government school out in the farming villages and were surprised to be greeted by about 250 students, all lined up in two rows (like you see at football games) between the gate and where we were going. A group of boys pounding on drums led us in to the porch running along several classrooms. We were given flowers and asked to participate in planting trees (the holes were dug and all we needed to do was peel off the plastic wrapping the roots and drop it in the hole, push the dirt back and water the tree), another Vision first. Eugene led the Vision singing and Kayla shared her testimony and we did the missing pieces skit but some of the teachers were offended by the religious nature of our program, and not wanting to harm future ministry by the locals, we backed off on doing any ministry and returned to our hotel for lunch.

We all got back together after a short rest to debrief yesterday and this morning's activities, then did our devos which "happened" to be from Joshua 1 about being strong and courageous, just what we needed to hear. We ate a light dinner and had a few minutes before leaving so we spent the time pr'ying for Marshall (it turns out his right leg is slightly shorter than his left which might be causing his hip,pain) and Jason (his right leg muscle is twisted so his leg is also shorter and causing leg and back pains). Interestingly, it was not until Eugene pr'yed for Jason that his leg began to grow; seems that cleared up some barrier between the guys. We also prayed for Allison's scoliosis back problem and we could see Allison's shoulders even up, at least temporarily.

We then headed off to another house church meeting, this one among a lower caste village. We got there and saw the meeting was being held in the middle of a street with about 60 congregants sitting on mats placed on the dirt road and some plastic chairs for us and some older people in the back behind the mats. The sky was threatening and some of us pr'yed to not rain and indeed,, during the whole time, we felt random cooling rain drops, but no rain. We stood around everyone as we sang (surround sound) and noticed there were perhaps a dozen more neighbors standing behind where Vision is suppose to sit and someone on a nearby rooftop intently listening. Jordan and Moshi gave powerful testimonies and we performed the puppet skit, all translated by Prem. Brendan than gave his second sermon using the text focused on 2 Cor. 4:8 translated by MJ (a house church movement leader but his willingness to translate just shows his humility). Tim then asked if anyone wanting pr'yer and almost everyone sitting on the mats and chairs raised their hand. Among the more interesting answer to pr'yer was an older lady who had not stood without a cane for years. She was able to stand up by herself and walked about twenty feet, back and forth. A man blinded by cataracts was able to see in one eye after much intercession, a partial healing. Tim wants to return to pr'y for total healing for this man. We returned to our hotel at about 10:30, tired but joyful.

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