When God moves!

Man when God moves, God moves! That’s just it!

It aint about us telling Bible stories or how many people I get to talk to! It’s about God’s word getting out and people accepting it! He don’t need us, but it is by His grace alone that we can ride his space ship!

He is the pilot! we just along for the ride. It took me a minute to realize that! Thanks Brown Suga!

Man What a blessing it is to see God work! Tuesday March 24, 2009.

Me and my partner Andres went to the bush with three pastors from America and three Dinka translators and are boss Mark. We went about 75 mile into the bush to visit the people and tell them the word of God. Sudan is so beautiful! All the land I got to see while traveling was so awesome! 

We get to the village and all the little kids come running up to the car yelling kawaja, kawaja, which means foreigner. Than the chief comes out with all his other officials. They have people to get us all chairs to sit under a tree and have a meeting. We all sit down in a circle, half the circle is us and the other have is the Chief and his men. 

Sometimes I imagine we are some type of gang or secret agency, like Metal Gear Solid, trying to fight some evil in the world. Man I mean that’s what it’s like sometimes. You got Mark who is the big boss the commander. The Volunteer teams which are under Mark and assist you out on the field with medical and  new kinds of weapons to help you get the job done. Than you got Andres and the four other J-gales, who are the weapons, the soldiers, the hands on work! Finally me, the rookie to the field! Still green boy! The new solider coming in, the gopher! So I watch everybody! I try and take in everything they do and how they act! I mostly watch my partner Andres who is training me even if he does not know it! He is an amazing man of God and I could not have a better partner! He is crazy just like me! It’s cool! He’s Snake and I’m Raven. 

OK back to the blog...sorry. So we all sit down to have a meeting, Mark in the middle with the three pastors from the States and me and Andres on the side.

Now All this is done by the Dinka people because of are boss Mark. He is an older white man with white hair and the Dinka see that and it is immediately respect! Plus he has been in Sudan for about 15 years. So he knows what he’s doing! Mark talks to the chief about why we have come. That we come to tell the word of God and we want to be encouragement to the churches out here and see how they are doing. We did three of these same meetings with three different villages. 

It was all a true blessing to see and be a part of but the best part was the last meeting we went to. 

Mark begins to tell the people why we have come here. Than he asks “is there jak here?”, which is evil spirits. They all laugh because they are surprised that Mark knows about them and they say yeah other people go to jak. Mark and Tim, one of the pastors from america ask where is the jak in this village? They say some other people and other villages go to the tree.

Mark tells them but who created the tree. They all smile and say God. Mark says why do you worship the created when you can worship the creator!

 

Now let's back up to the night before. When we all sleep under a tree in tents. We sat around a pot of beans and rice and ate under the stars! I really enjoyed my self! It was such a blessing to be there seeing Mark and Tim tell Bible stories and try to figure out ways to bring medical help to the villages! This was all earlier that day! All the chiefs said that they are making peace with each other and stopping the fighting. 

We head out to the other village where we stay the night.

As we sit under the star lit sky of Africa Tim and all of us discuss how we want to give God's word to the next village. Tim comes here each year so he remembered the next village was doing a sacrifice for a dead witch doctor last year. So he suggested we tell Bible stories that dealt with God’s power over false gods. 

So that is just what we did. Mark and Tim picked out the Bible stories and we all took one to tell the next day. The next morning we got up way to early to go to the village and tell the Bible stories. So we sat around under the tree as the Lord gave us a nice cool breeze and even some rain! O yeah because the day before that was HOT! I mean HOT! I really did not want to move it was so HOT! I was sweeting like a fat mans arm pit!

So the cool morning was nice. Children stayed by are side under the tree all morning. So Tim told the translators, Shadrach, Sunday, and Isaac, to gather the children around I want to teach them a song. These Dinka translators are great guys! Their all pastors and we could not get anything done with out God sending them here! 

Baka! Baka! Baka tin! Says the translators, means to come. Now as wild as these kids play they really listen and have a natural respect for adults. They came over and all sat down as if they were in class. Tim taught them the song...Jesus “loves me this I know”, than the translators put it in Dinka right than and there! I’t was pretty cool to see! Than the translators taught them the song in Dinka and another song in Dinka, that was about God creating everything even satan and the power he has over all!

Isaac explained to them what the song meant and How God has power over all!  

What a blessing to see the kids get the word of God through songs! They all got up and started playing again and you could hear the kids singing the songs as they played! All man my heart smiled!

So after that we got in the trucks and headed to the next village over to tell Bible stories. So finally we are back to where we left off, sorry. 

OK, We all tell are Bible stories to the chief and the village. As the Bible stories were told myself and others prayed that they hear God’s word!

The Story of Elijah and the prophets of Baal, Moses and the golden calf where told. Mark told the story of Saw and the witch doctor, another told the story of Paul and the fortune teller and how paul got put in jail, I told Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Naego, and Andres ended it with the story of Jesus rising from the dead. They all stayed and listened! Thank you Jesus!

When we where done the chief sat back in his chair with his cool pimped out sun glasses and said “In our generation no one has told us these stories and explained it like this”. Man My heart melted! Than Mark said “now who all wants to go straight to God and not to the jak?” All the people surrounded us raised their hand! Thank you God! Now they have a choice!

Mark and Tim will visit them again.

Pray for these people! Pray that they go straight to God and rely on Him for protection. Pray that the peace talks work and peace remain in the villages of Malak to Myan. (might have spelled that wrong all well)  

see you my peeps!

Jermaine