Film Evangelism!
Sunday
We left for the mountains around noon and when we got there at 3 we unpacked the van and went out evangelizing and inviting people to the movie. We had about 90 people show up for the movie and by the time Jessica preached we had 30 people leave. But, 2 people accepted Christ and we were able to pray for healing for about 10-15 people.
Monday
Every morning we had class for a few hours and then left to go to another village. The village we went to this day we actually walked through during our hike. Again, we split up in our teams and went out to evangelize and invite people to the movie. We had about 40 people show up this night. The crowd was not very responsive but we did get to pray for 10-15 people as a big group.
Tuesday
This day was my favorite day. We had some different responses to the invites to the movie and one of them was "I cant go because it is a evangelistic church and i am catholic." - you have to remember that I am in Catholic Nation and they follow catholicism to the T. Well anyways when we were out inviting people it started to down pour and one family invited us into there porch area so while we were waiting for the rain to let up we took the opportunity to tell them about Jesus. They did not accept Him but we were able to plant seeds. When we started to the movie there was only about 20 people or so and by the time the movie was done we had at least 100 people crammed into the church and some outside the church because not everyone could fit (they were sitting in the aisles and all that was left was standing room.) That night we were able to lead 20 people to the Lord and pray for healing for others.
Wednesday
When we got to the village we had to sit in the van and wait because we had no idea where we were going to show the movie. There was no church in the village and if it came to it we would set up out side and pray that it did not rain. A family ended up opening up their home to us and letting us show it in there. We were able to show the first movie fine but when we went to show the second one the projector kept messing up and then someone stepped on the electrical cord so instead of a second movie Imna started to preach. Around 10 kids accepted Christ that night!
Thursday
This was the day I was supposed to preach but we got rained out and ended up leaving the village early. The reason we did that was for our safety because we had to walk down a mountain side to get there and then walk up with a stream of rushing water going between our legs and if we did that in the dark someone could have gotten really hurt. So instead we went back to our village and 2 of the other students led our neighbors to Christ.
Friday
We left for the Capitol.
Saturday
We helped out at a church for a mothers day luncheon/service. We made butterflies with the kids so they could give them to their moms.
Sunday
We went to a different church and put on dramas for the adults (it is a big church with 5 Sunday services and has about 5000 members but we only did it for 2 services) and then we put some on for the children and I preached to them, the children, after the dramas. I had the privlage of being able to lead some of them to Christ!
This Week
We prepared all week long for our medical brigade we are leaving for on Sunday
Some things we will be doing are
~checking blood pressure
~checking blood sugar
~checking weight
(so basically being a nurse)
~ assisting the doctors - they do not know any English
~passing out medication
~working in the prayer room - our way of spreading the Gospel this week!
Prayer Request
~pray for our safety to and from the village
~that no one will get sick or injured
~that the peoples hearts will be receptive to the Gospel
