This past weekend, Luke Whitfield and I went with a local church to do outreach in several villages in Mumbwa. Someone donated funds so that Luke could purchase "Salaula" (about 100 pounds of second-hand clothes) to be distributed to families in the villages before winter hits. It's amazing how so little goes so far here in Zambia. Giving out the clothes was not the only thing that we did during the trip.
When we first arrived, we attended an evening service where Luke preached on being a Temple of the Holy Spirit. Pastor Collins Chipaya (our guide for the weekend & pastor of a large charismatic church here in Lusaka) then led a time of prayer for healing and other various things. After the service, we went back to the hotel to get rest for the next day of ministry.
The next morning, we visited a village where I was asked to preach to a year old church plant. After preaching, Luke and Chiluba (another leader in Chipaya's church) had those with ailments line up in the front of the congregation and then they prayed for each person separately. One of the men there was suffering from chronic knee and back pain. After praying for the gentleman's knee, he said that the pain went away. So they proceeded to pray for his back as well. As their hands were on his back, they felt his back pop and the man's pain went away! Praise the Lord! That afternoon, I had to leave to get back for Gracyn's birthday party, but this was not the only miracle that occurred over the weekend. There were many more.
I'll talk about them and the ways that God has challenged my views of him since this trip in our next blog.
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