Crusade Notes

Actually, more happened at the crusade than I can record here. The music is the typical upbeat, energetic praise of the Kenyan worshipers, full of movement and the soaring of beautiful voices. By the nature of what it is, the crusade is much more music than preaching. The people we were trying to reach are far from churched and will leave if the preaching goes long. Not that that ever happens in the states... Anyway, the music was great, with Mary,a blind woman, who is a worship music pioneer here singing. There was a man from the Congo, and then another very popular lady who sang. Then I preached, kind of. Well, I preached, but just a very short evangelistic message from John 14:1 and 6, encouraging them that they should not look for other ways to deal with the issues of their lives, because only Jesus is the way. I had misunderstood Tom, so thought I had about half the time I actually did, but God worked it for the best. Tom was able to basically tag team with me and then invited me back up to lead in a prayer of salvation and say a bit more. By the time we finished, of the 2000+ people who were the, 50-100 indicated they had received Christ. Victory Christian people then took them aside to follow up on them and the rest of us went down to pray with people for their sicknesses and other needs. In the midst of that, we had a somewhat startling moment. A woman who had turned in from the road when she heard me preaching came for prayer. Zach prayed with her and when he finished, she fell to the ground, shrieking. To abbreviate a lengthy story, she had turned to a witch doctor, but by the time the night was over, she turned to God. As I prayed over her at the end of the night, I prayed hard not only for her deliverance, but that she would look only to Christ now. The evening was amazing, exhausting, exhilarating, and humbling. Thank you all for your continued love and support! Pray for us as we head to the village tomorrow. We'll make one of the girls blog soon!