{FECA Vision Choir} Report 8

Wednesday, 7/5

Yesterday, we only had five Madurai singers join us: altos Jeslin, (Janet, actually spelled Jenith) Jessy, Issac, soprano Denissa and bass Jabez. Issac's older brother, Raymond had extra classes and could not join us, so with sopranos Joanne and Nancy, we had 16 singers last night with Nicole sitting out but participating in the ministry time. This morning, Nicole is much better and Kayla almost normal while everyone else is reasonably healthy. After breakfast, we met at the hotel conference room for our devos. Tim used his influential contacts here to get us free use of this conference room whenever it has not been previously booked for other groups by the hotel. Jabez joined us this morning half way through devos, playing "hooky" from his classes, but so excited about the ministry. We arrived Peniel School at about 9:30 and started VBS at 9:45 and finished at 1 PM, had lunch at the school and returned home for a couple hours of R&R. Today was more overcast so cooler than yesterday, an answer to our pr'yer. We met up with three more members of the Madurai team at 4:30, Jeslin is not feeling well and Raymond is still catching up on his studies. We spent an hour rehearsing so we can get used to how everyone sounds. Singing is a great way to practice unity as we need to listen to each other and blend in so no one voice sticks out. Jabez has requested to join us as we go to Khammam, so Tim is trying to see if we can still book him airline tickets with the rest of us and even though Jabez is over 21, we still want to respect the culture and ask his parents' permission.

We left at six to go to Zion Church, where we sang last year. This church does a great ministry among people with HIV/AIDS. Again we prayed in the bus going there, arriving about 15 minutes before the 7 PM service. Promptly at seven they started the service with a couple of choruses and we took over. Jabez shared his story how his mother struggled to give birth to him, going to 3 hospitals before his safe delivery. Jabez's mother walked in just as he began his testimony and she was so surprised to her him talk about her. Allison also shared her testimony, we performed the puppet skit with translation, and Mari gave the message for the third meeting in a row. We spent about 30 minutes ministering to about 20 people, maybe half of the congregation, then ate dinner cooked by the church members. Jenith (who is Jabez's younger sister and Issac and Raymond's first cousin) went home with her parents and we received permission for Jabez to go to Khammam next week. We debriefed the ministry time after dinner as we are all learning how to pr'y in the Spirit and be a conduit for the Spirit to flow through us. One comment we heard from several Indian team members was their joy and surprise that they could pr'y for others. They had thought it was something only older pastors could do. It also took a lot of humility for the older congregation members to come forward to be pr'yed for by young people. We then returned to the hotel by 10 PM, where Jabez left his scooter and we met Issac's father and Denissa's father, who had come pick their kids up and we all went to bed early, another good day, PTL.

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