Update in Akot work

Andrew and I Have been doing TrT (training rural trainers) in Akot with the pastors. It has been going so great! and all the young men are really into the training and using it to build churches and spread God's word more effectively! 

A few weeks ago we went to Paloc and showed the Jesus film to the town. Stayed there and the next day we explain the film and told them the gospel. They were very expectable and we built are Baptist Church back up from it. There was a Baptist Church in paloc but the pastor got shot and the church stop meeting together after that.

But God blessed us and the church came back together and that sunday we had church under a tree with forty people! Praise God!

At the end of the service a women called Elisabeth Akoi ask that we pray for a snake to leave her home. So we prayed but Andrew and I said let's kill it now. But everybody said No, no,no,no...."Why?' We asked. They told us that her husband is related to the snake. And I knew what they were talking about. It goes into animistic religion and it is not Godly. So we told them that it is wrong and they have to chose God only and to talk her husband. Then we went back to Akot.

Then a week later some soldiers went to paloc for disarmament and scattered the people and the church! So Andrew and I wanted to get back up to Paloc bad! But we could not take the car because the army would take it over. So we road our bikes! only about over 30 miles back and forth.

We got there and we could not find any of the church leaders, but we found two church members. One of them was Akoi, We sat with Akoi in her home and the snake was gone. I asked "where is the snake?" She said " I killed it." She explain how God gave her the power and she does do those things anymore and God had all the power! Andrew and I was so thankful to Jesus! Akoi said that she had ran when the soldiers came to her friends house and another snake came into the house. But she killed that snake also with the power of God! What a blessing. We left her house praising God and wrote a message of encouragement with the word of God to the leaders of Paloc church. then we went back home. 

Please pray that this Church keeps going and stays together.

Pray for our TrT class that God is with us as we teach and the pastors and young men teach the word of God with boldness and that the class helps.