{FECA Vision Choir} Report 16

Note: Internet was down all day yesterday so report 15 could not be sent until late in the day.

Thursday 7/13

We met at 7:30 for breakfast this morning. Hannah has a sore throat and a low fever. Jason's leg still hurts and Allison had her back brace on again, so we are learning not all healing is instantaneous. We cancelled our morning school program and spent the next two hours to begin the tour debriefing process, each sharing how God opened our eyes during this trip. We will have to complete this part of the debrief later as we needed to get on the bus and travel two hours out of Khammam to a village church where we met about 40 leaders and pastors having a leadership training program. But first we stopped at a home of a couple for lunch. This lady and her husband trains 700-800 pastors of local churches, and she is a wonderful cook. By the way, Hannah has recovered from her fever.

After lunch, we drove to the training site. It is now about 3 PM. The church building is about 12 feet by 24 feet with almost no ventilation but for three ceiling fans, so although it was comfortably cool and rainy outside, it was stuffy and warm inside, especially with all the body heat. A loud speaker on the roof blared the drums and singing to the entire neighborhood and enabled the men sitting outside (there was no more room inside the church) to hear. Worship was incredibly passionate. We sang three songs and Tim preached a powerful, encouraging message to these servants of the Lord. We then pr'yed for these leaders. Some were pastors of house churches of 4-5 families, some were leaders of minority groups with many hundreds churches, but all were growing and multiplying churches, just like we read about in church growth books. And even though these were all lovers of our Lord, it did not mean they did not face the trials of daily living. Most of them just farm for a living, some just being paid menial subsistence wages, and some struggled with health issues. A lady was healed of (probably an abscess) toothache miraculously. How privileged we were to witness their lives, and humbled to be able to bless them when we are the ones who should be blessed by them. Since the forecast is for heavy rains this evening, the evening program was cancelled so we were able to eat at our hotel after the two hour drive back with our local teammates and do our devos together and continue the debriefing session until 11 PM when we called it a night.

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