Cobue, MozambiqueMonday, August 2, 2010
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Outreach in Massumba
Our IRIS team was invited to come and do evangelism and have a seminar this past weekend just a few kilometers north of Metangula in the village of Massunga. Peter and Debbie Wilcox received and accepted this invitation by the Anglican church, so we brought a part of our Mozambican team with us to assist.
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On Friday night, we picked up Ernesto and his wife from Metangula and headed to the Anglican church in Massumba. We had a worship time with the Anglicans and then Jesse and the others headed to the soccer field where we thought we were going to show the Jesus film. Then Peter, Debbie and I were informed that it was dangerous to show the Jesus film down in the village as they have done outreaches there before and had rocks thrown at them from drunk hecklers. We were told by the Anglican pastors that it would be better to show the film up on the church grounds. Peter, Debbie and I all said that we weren’t afraid of being stoned and that the drunk people needed to see the film, not just church people. We even said we would go speak to the chief and secretary of the village. Finally, we were told that even the chief would rather we not show the film there, so we opted to go ahead and show the film on the church grounds. I did go down and invite a large group of young men, who fit the bill of the hecklers they were speaking about. They were all very cool to me and said they would come…and they did.
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I actually sat with all those guys as we watched the Jesus film..even as they took their bottles of alcohol out and drank liquor while they watched. Before the film, I was given an opportunity to preach a bit, as others did also. Many people came. After the film, many came forward to be saved, healed and delivered. I personally prayed over a young man who was demon-possessed and epileptic. After some time of prayer over him, the demon fled and he was in his right mind again. He was even beating a drum in the meeting after the film. God is so good!
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Peter and Debbie taught in the seminar that night and the next day as well. A few of the guys stayed back with them on Saturday as the rest of us headed up further north to Cobue, which God had placed on our hearts to do. After some evangelism in Cobue, we had hoped to continue on north-east toward the Tanzania border to Lupilipchi, but found that it was impossible to travel by 4X4…only by motorbike as there is no bridge over a larger river. So part of our team went to Cobue, evangelizing and distributing Christian literature along the way. The people of this area are Nyanja, which is closely related to Chichewa, and have mostly been reached by the gospel. There was an Assemblies of God church in Cobue. We ran into some members from that church. There are also many Anglican churches. Although the people here have heard and possibly received Christ, there is a huge need of revival and an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The miracles we witnessed the night before, and the openness of the Anglican church here in the area is a key to this, we believe. Peter and Debbie said there was a phenomenal outpouring of the Holy Spirit during their teaching times at the seminar, and they said they want to come back to continue to work with the Anglican church here.
.On Friday night, we picked up Ernesto and his wife from Metangula and headed to the Anglican church in Massumba. We had a worship time with the Anglicans and then Jesse and the others headed to the soccer field where we thought we were going to show the Jesus film. Then Peter, Debbie and I were informed that it was dangerous to show the Jesus film down in the village as they have done outreaches there before and had rocks thrown at them from drunk hecklers. We were told by the Anglican pastors that it would be better to show the film up on the church grounds. Peter, Debbie and I all said that we weren’t afraid of being stoned and that the drunk people needed to see the film, not just church people. We even said we would go speak to the chief and secretary of the village. Finally, we were told that even the chief would rather we not show the film there, so we opted to go ahead and show the film on the church grounds. I did go down and invite a large group of young men, who fit the bill of the hecklers they were speaking about. They were all very cool to me and said they would come…and they did.
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I actually sat with all those guys as we watched the Jesus film..even as they took their bottles of alcohol out and drank liquor while they watched. Before the film, I was given an opportunity to preach a bit, as others did also. Many people came. After the film, many came forward to be saved, healed and delivered. I personally prayed over a young man who was demon-possessed and epileptic. After some time of prayer over him, the demon fled and he was in his right mind again. He was even beating a drum in the meeting after the film. God is so good!
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Peter and Debbie taught in the seminar that night and the next day as well. A few of the guys stayed back with them on Saturday as the rest of us headed up further north to Cobue, which God had placed on our hearts to do. After some evangelism in Cobue, we had hoped to continue on north-east toward the Tanzania border to Lupilipchi, but found that it was impossible to travel by 4X4…only by motorbike as there is no bridge over a larger river. So part of our team went to Cobue, evangelizing and distributing Christian literature along the way. The people of this area are Nyanja, which is closely related to Chichewa, and have mostly been reached by the gospel. There was an Assemblies of God church in Cobue. We ran into some members from that church. There are also many Anglican churches. Although the people here have heard and possibly received Christ, there is a huge need of revival and an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The miracles we witnessed the night before, and the openness of the Anglican church here in the area is a key to this, we believe. Peter and Debbie said there was a phenomenal outpouring of the Holy Spirit during their teaching times at the seminar, and they said they want to come back to continue to work with the Anglican church here.
Christian Young
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