The post is far behind schedule!
Steve flew into Rajahmundry India on April 24 and ministered with Pastor Abraham and Pastor Samuel until May 2. Sunday April 24 was Resurrection Sunday and I had the great privilege of preaching 3 times on the Celebration of Jesus Christ Resurrection from the grave!!! Praise the Lord!!
The Pastors and their families were very gracious hosts. They had a room and bathroom that was Westernized: air conditioning, shower, sink and a western toilet. Children running around that I was able to love and spoil. Wives that took care of me with wonderful food, cooked without as much curry as Indians eat.
The only problem about them cooking food that fit my pallet, is that I instead of losing weight, that I so needed to do, I gained weight. But it was fun gaining it!
We ministered with a Pastor's conference that was about 6 hours, conducted 2 Medical Camps that we offered free medical care to Hindus and Christians in several villages. The 2nd camp was held a little differently and I got to pray for almost everyone that got doctored on.
I was allowed to preach up to 6 times a day and for a man who is not a preach, I had a fantastic time. The scripture that Jesus told his disciples to trust in the Holy Spirit and he would give the messages, IS TRUE. The Lord gave me different messages for every service.
God is SO GOOD!
Looking forward to the next trip to minister with Pastor Abraham and Pastor Samuel!!!
Love you Pastors, wives, children and all those we ministered with and to!!
Thanks for your love, care and hospitality!!
We are praying for God to do great things there, many to be saved and all to be discipled.
Victor David and Blessing met us at the train station in Rajahmundry on Monday May 2 and rode the train with them to Anakapolli.
I have 2 CDs of pictures and video from Rajahmundry, but I can't seem to get them into my computer, so the only pictures I have to upload are the ones from Anakapolli.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Meeting Francis and Harrison Olan'g
A chance meeting in a Best Buy store in New Orleans turned into a wonderful 2 days for Steve and I.
As those of you who know Steve know, he likes to talk! (slight under exaggeration lol)
He struck up a conversation with a young man in the store and through this gift of gab found out this man was from Tanzania and knows one of our friends who had been a missionary in Tanzania for many years.
We found out later that Francis' father, Harrison Olan'g, would be in the area ( flying in from Tanzania) soon so Steve asked if they would like to come up and stay with us, come to our Monday night Bible Study and then go see Roger Swann, their missionary friend. They agreed. What we didn't know at the time of the invitation, but God did, was that Roger would be recovering from unexpected bypass surgery.
When Steve took them to Rogers house he said it was so sweet to see the old friends reminisce. The "chance" meeting was for them, Harrison and Francis Olan'g and Roger Swann, we just got a blessing from it as well.
Monday night at Bible Study at Harvest, Harrison spoke on the Samaritan women. He told us that Jesus looked passed the fact that she was an adulteress and saw her heart, the heart of an evangelist. We need to look passed the outward appearance and see the potential that Christ see's. And we need to love others enough to tell them about Jesus.
Because of my husbands willingness to speak to EVERYONE ALL THE TIME we now have new friends. Pray for Harrison as he returns to Tanzania. He is a pastor and is president of the Seminary there. The seminary was Southern Baptist but just recently has become non-denominational. Pray for Francis and his family. He has finished his masters at New Orleans Baptist Seminary and is wanting to get a green card so that they can move to and stay in Texas. He works as a mental health counselor and wishes to be able to send help back to Tanzania and arrange mission trips to this same area.
The link above I hope will give you a little more information about the Olan'gs. It is a bit old but might be helpful. Go to NEWER POSTS to find the link
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