In The Thick Of It

Our trip here was rather uneventful, although some others lost their bags. Although we don't look like it in the picture, we are quite exhausted already and trying to stay awake in London so we can get our sleep schedules coordinated to Africa time.

This is us in front of Buckingham Palace (minus Scott and Phil) We arrived in Mwanza Saturday morning ready for a full day of ministry, which we did.

After checking into the hotel, we made our way to the opening rally, where we heard some choirs and experienced some great worship. We met our translators for the week there, and did some last minute training.


The next day was Sunday. After worshipping in each of the churches, (each team went to their respective sites. See Donna with new friend.) we ate lunch and then went to Fonelisco.


Words cannot describe the experience we had there. These street kids performed for us by singing and dancing some tribal dances. The orphanage has very little, but they love these kids and it shows. And the kids know it.


Scott was able to record some really great audio of it which I'm sure we will use in some kind of video soon.

Monday was the first day of real evangelism. I went out with Steve and Jessica, who both did terrific. We stumbled upon four guys sawing logs with a giant ripsaw. After we tried our hand at it (and were even more thankful for POWER tools at home) Steve settled in and shared the gospel with them.


It turns out that the main guy in the group was a witch doctor. He told us that he had been thinking about becoming a Christian and hoping someone would tell him about Christ. Steve led him to recieve Christ sitting on the log. It was a phenominal experience which don't think any of us will ever forget.

Much more to share but that's all we have time for today.

Blessings,
Phil