This morning in our group Quiet Time we continued modelling A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication), and focused on Confession & Thanksgiving. I read an article in the Nov-2012 Worldwide Challenge magazine about someone hating big cockroaches, and how we have nasty "cockroach" sins in our lives and need to confess them & let God step on them for us. We also looked at & prayed through Psalms 51.
In our final day of training, after our opening worship time this morning, Elton & Greg (our staff) went up front with 3 Local guys (the 2 with guitars & the one in yellow, all 3 are taking the training) who played & sang a song for us - it was great that Elton & Greg had gotten to know them so much that they could sing together (see photo).
Then Isaac (in purple) explained about spiritual multiplication by having Greg's and Elton's disciples stand behind them - Isaac is in Stanley's group and Stanley is in Greg's group (see photo - Isaac also has 2 disciples of his own, but they didn't come on this project).
At the end of the last session we gave certificates to the 12 people who actively attended all 3 days. We had about 36 people attend at least one day. About 14 people did the last 2 days, but since the 1st day is most important, we couldn't give them a certificate... so 2 of the trainees will help Paul (our board chair) run the 1st day over again on Saturday!
Matthew left today after lunch - it was great to have him. He will be heading to Fiji to speak at their Mid-year conference. [The girls all wanted a picture with him :-)].
After lunch we had our Team time (see photo) and talked about the difference between temporal and eternal and choosing to look at the unseen instead of the seen (2 Cor 4:16-18). We looked at how God bought us (with a great price), gave us the Ministry of Reconciliation, and made us ambassadors for Him. We know God is calling some of the graduating students in our ministry to join our staff and we want those students to follow that call! Please pray now that they will all listen to God and know where He is calling them after graduation in October - thanks :-)
Free time this afternoon meant "head to the beach"! I heard a couple of guys say "let's go wave bashing" (my favourite sport). We spent over 2 hours in the water - it was great fun! And Good time to play & talk with the students. Alfred just now said to me, "we had an excellent time in the waves today, didn't we?"!
As I'm writing this, the guys are settling up for the African follow-up movie (walking with Jesus) - I hope a lot of people come, since it was postponed from yesterday because of rain. But so far there are about 150 people here :-) The film has just started, and it's really good... but I don't think the bats like the loud speakers cause they'd screeching in the trees. :-)
Tomorrow we're going to distribute 800 - 1,000 Jesus Film and Children's JF DVDs to homes in this village. But because the village is so spread out, and we hope to share Christ with many of them, we're planning to spend from 9am to 3pm. So please pray for strength & energy! Thanks so much for helping to make this ministry possible!
P. S. The film is still good, and after 10 minutes, we have about 300 or so :-) [The last photo was taken about halfway back in the dark :-)].
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