Our trip West to Mbarara was a great success! Pastor Naboth and his wife Alice welcomed us into their home set in the beautiful countryside surrounding the town. We ate mountains of local food (got a little sick, but it was so worth it!), and in between large meals, preached the Word of God. People were bussed in from the surrounding area, and in all, there was about 500-600 people packed into the small church, most of them leaders of small village churches. We had the opportunity to impact all of these churches in a few short days.
Pastor Naboth had a vision a few months ago about fish falling from heaven with birth fluids all over them (you know, like a newborn?). He got up from where he was outside under a tree, and went into the church. Two pastors were behind the pulpit scratching their heads, confused. They didn't know what to do to reach people, when all the while they were falling right from the sky. The Lord said, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few..." These laborers were confused, and so the theme of the conference was "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel." Pastor Naboth was out to train pastors to reach their communities.
We took a long bumpy taxi ride (waited a couple hours for the taxi to fill up) and were too exhausted to preach the first night, but spoke on prerequisites to fulfilling the Great Commission, and the 5-fold ministry the first morning. Worship was wonderful, and many local "artists" came and sang and danced for the group.
Virginia preached on Saturday on the Value of the Kingdom, and Brent on Sowing and Reaping. Afterwards, a pastor came up saying, "I have a confession to make: when I first saw you two, I thought, 'these two are so new...what will they teach us?' but we have been blessed by your ministry!" Praise the Lord that it doesn't matter how old you are - His Word is still the same!
7 people were saved on Friday, and everyone at the conference committed themselves to reaching lost people in their communities. A young girl even gave us a papaya as an offering. It was a great success.
We're out to Bussi Island on Tuesday...no internet for a couple weeks. We'll update when we get back!
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Hey there good friends the Earwickers!! This would be your friends from afar Randy and Danielle.
We were just talking about you as a matter of fact. It was I guess you could say "we agreed to disagree" type of discussion. You see, Danielle feels that there will never be the need to have the game (the very awesome game) of risk in our home, or even on the property for that matter. I however feel differently. I proceeded to tell her how Virginia was nice enough to allow Brent to own that wonderful invention. Also, very humble of you Brent to give it away to Danny out of pure love. Which brought me to my next point. Jamie also allowing Danny to welcome the game into their family. So, with that said we truly love and adore you from afar, We love watching your videos and hearing updates!! We wish you a very merry Christmas and a blessed new year!!
Love Randy Danielle and Hannah Joy
Brent and Virgina, Merry Christmas from the older Spedick's. I love having a connection that seems like you are just minutes away. The message from your blog sounds like you guys are just where the Lord wanted you to be for now. Praise Him for He is the provider of all our needs physically and spiritually. May He bless you with an abundance of whatever your need is today. We lov ya tons. Mike and Peggy
We are praying for you guys! Kinda wish we were seeing it all first hand! :) The house is working wonderfully for us, and we are blessed to be living there. Love Caleb and Ashley
Hey, hey, heyyyy!!!
Happy 2007!!! Don't worry, you guys aren't missing much over here in Bend :) Praise God that you are touching so many lives! We are and will ocntinue praying for you two!
Take care and God bless!
Molly & Gracie
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