MOZAMBIQUE 2010 - Outreach in Tchekelanje

Tchekelanje, Mozambique
Saturday, May 29, 2010
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Outreach in Tchekelanje
This weekend we took our team of over 20 people to Tchekelanje, a village north from where we live. It’s the farthest village north on the Assumane road that we’ve ever shown the Jesus film.
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We got to the village when the sky was starting to get dark. So we quickly said, “hello” to the chief, set up our tents for the night, and set up all of our sound equipment for the Jesus film.
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We had everyone introduce themselves up on the stage. Then we started up the projector and put up our Swahili music videos We also had some people give their testimonies during this time, and then we started the Jesus film.
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When the Jesus film was over we gave an altar call. Nobody came at first, they only came for healing. But after everybody started leaving, people came forward to receive Jesus, because they were ashamed of what others might think.
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The next morning after we put away our tents, a girl with epilepsy, two children with stomach pain and a woman with chest and stomach pain came for healing. They were all healed in the mighty name of Jesus. With this encouraging end to our outreach, we headed home with joy in our hearts and life in our spirits.
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Jonas Young

MOZAMBIQUE 2010 - Teaching on Worship at the YWAM DTS

Lichinga, Mozambique
Friday, May 14, 2010
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Teaching on Worship at the YWAM DTS
One of the really cool things that can happen in a healthy environment on the mission field is what I would call CROSS-POLLINATION, when different missions organizations and churches can work together in unity and share resources. We have just such a relationship with the other missions agencies here in Lichinga, Mozambique. One of the organizations that we work closely with here is YWAM, or Youth With A Mission.

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Denis, the DTS, or Discipleship Training School leader with YWAM, invited me to come and teach the DTS students on the subject of worship. I was thrilled that he had asked and agreed to come and teach. Today I taught from 9:00am to 12:30pm on subjects surrounding worship such as: sitting at Jesus’ feet vs. being busy in ministry, the throne room of God, our response to the love of God, lifestyle worship and worship as a weapon. The 15 or so students were very attentive, taking notes through the whole class. Some students were moved so much that they asked if I could come back and teach more on the subject. I feel honored that my limited understanding on the subject of worship could bless them so much. It seems as though I am now in a season of teaching in Bible Schools, as I am also currently teaching through the gospel of Mark at our Great Harvest School of Ministry on the IRIS base. I am loving it. I especially love teaching students that are hungry for more of God and His Word.

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Christian Young

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NOTES ON WORSHIP
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Sitting at Jesus’ Feet vs. Being Busy in Ministry
In the story of Mary and Martha In Luke 10:38-42 we find that Jesus commends Mary for choosing to sit at His feet, gleaning all she could from the Savior while Martha was busy serving. Jesus wasn’t saying that serving wasn’t important but that all of our serving should come as a result of being in the presence of God. We can do things FOR God or we can do things WITH God. God tells the church of Sardis in Revelation 3:1 that they have a reputation of being alive but are dead. There is the illustration of when you go to cut the head off of a chicken to kill it; when you cut the head off of the chicken, the body of the chicken continues to flap around, with a lot of movement, yet the chicken is in fact, dead. The church today needs to beware of the danger of being busy about the work of God, with a lot of movement and a lot of programs, yet being detached from the Head of the Body of Christ, who is Christ Himself. Worship is about sitting at the feet of Jesus in adoration of Him.
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The Throne Room of God
Something I do a lot of times in my own personal times of worship is to read passages about the throne room of God from Revelation and imagine the throne room as I worship. In Revelation 4:3 it talks about there being a rainbow around the throne of God, as well as mentions different precious stones. What causes this rainbow? We know that rainbows are caused from pure, white light being refracted through something, let’s say a diamond or precious stone. As the pure white light shines through the diamond, it refracts a beautiful rainbow of colors. 2 Corinthians 4:6-7 says that we have this treasure in earthen vessels. I believe that each of us Christ followers can be like a diamond or precious stone in the hand of the Father, and as He shines His pure, white light into us, we refract His glory in worship through expressions of worship, each differently in the unique way in which He designed us, like different precious stones do as well. And around the throne of God, our worship is like the colors of the rainbow. It also mentions later in Revelation that there are people from every tribe, tongue and nation around the throne of God. Imagine the different colors of the rainbow as God’s pure, white light shines into every tribe, tongue and nation around the throne of God in heaven, and how each group refracts God’s glory differently in its’ own unique expressions of worship.
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Our Response to the Love of God
We know that we love God because He first loved us. Worship is our response to God’s unconditional love for us. The key is to worship God, or express our love to God, in every circumstance in life. It is easy to sing songs of praise and worship to God when things are all going well in our life. But what about when things aren’t going so well? Or what about when we face difficulties? Do we respond in worship? We can take Job’s example from Job 1:20 when his response to the most difficult of situations was to worship the Lord. As we worship God in the beauty of His holiness, and in His wonderful presence, all of our difficult situations seem to fade away into the background, and even disappear. In His presence, everything changes.
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Lifestyle Worship
In Romans 12:1-2 we find out that we can present ourselves to the Lord as living sacrifices unto Him, and that our lives actually are worship to God as we remain completely surrendered to Him on the altar. In the Old Testament, the Levites were given precise instructions on how to kill the animal that was to be sacrificed to God. And as the smoke of the sacrifice rose to the heavens, God was pleased by the aroma. The problem with living sacrifices is that they often want to crawl back off of the altar. Even as living sacrifices, we need to reckon ourselves as crucified with Christ and remain on the altar of God. As we do this, our lives become a sweet aroma as worship before God. We can worship God as we just live life; when we go to work, or are doing chores around the house. Worship isn’t just about singing songs to God at church. Worship is about living a life fully surrendered to God.
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Worship as a WeaponWe need to understand that the Lord inhabits the praises of His people. One thing that the enemy, Satan, and the other fallen angels or demons cannot stand is the the worship of God’s people. At the sound of God’s saints worshipping the Lord, the enemy must flee. Why? Because Satan fell from heaven because He wanted to be exalted above the throne of God, in worship. When Christ-followers worship God, Satan is defeated as his desire is to receive the focus and attention. We can see evidence of the power of praise and worship in 2 Chronicles 20 where God has His people, Israel, place the worshippers on the front lines of the battle. As they played their instruments and sang songs to YHWH, their enemies were defeated without even lifting a sword. There is power in praise and worship. When we are under attack from the enemy, Satan, we should worship God as it is a key weapon in our fight against the evil one.

MOZAMBIQUE 2010 - Jonas' MK City Evangelism Files - PART 1

Lichinga, Mozambique
Monday, May 10, 2010
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Jonas’ MK City Evangelism Files – PART 1
I tell you, there couldn’t be a father more proud of his son in this world than I am. My son, Jonas, and his friend Elias, another “MK” or missionary kid, spend their Monday afternoons taking as motorbike into the city of Lichinga and witnessing to the youth of the city. The youth mainly speak Portuguese in the city, as that is what they learn in school. And Jonas is doing really well communicating in both Portuguese and Yao these days, and Elias is fluent in Portuguese. So far, Jonas and Elias have led quite a few young people to Christ in their city evangelism adventures. Elias at age 14 and Jonas at age 13 (almost 14) are turning this world upside down one life at a time here in Mozambique, Africa. Check out three of Jonas’ journal entries about their evangelizing.
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Christian Young
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Monday, February 22, 2010 

Today, me and my missionary friend Elias went into town with one purpose: to reach out to the street kids of Lichinga. We’ve both had it in our hearts to do this. Then one day we both spoke up about it and now our plan has gone into action.
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We drove down our muddy road to the airport, and from there straight on into town. The first place we stopped was next to a service station. It was a little storefront with about 10 kids about our age. We got off the motorbike and we gave the gospel message. Out of all of them, about 5 or 6 of them gave their lives to Jesus. They all said they would meet us next Monday at 2:00pm at the old DC-3 plane wreckage in a park. The would be our discipleship place.
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On the way home we stopped by some apartment buildings in town. There were two guys about 19 or 20 years old. We gave the gospel message there, too and they both received Jesus into their hearts. Apparently they were Catholics but had never received Jesus before. They said this Sunday they would go to our “Centro de Adoração” (center of worship).
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After that we drove on home from a great day of evangelizing. Now we have about 8 boys we’re going to disciple, and we will have to prepare for this next Monday. Elias and I would appreciate if you could pray for us and our new ministry; that the hearts of these children would be open to hear the gospel, and that they would begin to love Jesus and love others, too. Also that the spirit of poverty would be broken in these children and that they would realize that they should trust in Jesus for all of their needs. Thank you so much! It’s a privilege to be working on the mission field to help others see the light of Jesus.
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Jonas Young

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Elias teaching city kids through literature........Jonas with the street kids of Lichinga

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Monday, May 3, 2010
Elias and I set out down the airport road at about 50 kilometers per hour, praying that God would bless our time in the market and that lives would be won to heaven’s side through us. That was our hope. Our prayers would be answered.
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We pulled up to the central market on the motorcycle and immediately, we had a group of about 10 to 15 children wanting to hear the gospel. This has never happened before in our numerous attempts to lead people to Jesus.
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Only about 7 or 8 of them followed us across the street to look at our books we had brought. They all took the Jesus story very seriously. And in the end, we led them all to Christ!
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As it was getting into the later evening, we went back to the motorbike, and they all said they would meet us next week. It was a successful day and God answered our prayers.
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Cho Nas Chung
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Monday, May 10, 2010
When we got to the market this week, the boys were already there. There were some new boys there, also. So we went to our usual spot across from the market.
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We started showing our children’s book about the book of Acts. Some of the other new boys were being very distracting. But in the end, we just shared the gospel story. We led three more boys to the Lord today. We decided that next week we will share to book of Acts.
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So then we did the rest of our shopping that we needed to do and we headed back home.
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Cho Nas Chung

MOZAMBIQUE 2010 - Outreach in Cimotoka

Cimotoka, Mozambique
Friday, May 7, 2010
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Outreach in Cimotoka
Today we went to a village named Cimotoka, but also known as Cigalimoto, which in the Chichewa language of Malawi means, “car.” This outreach, our friend Kevin came with us and brought his truck. So we were able to bring more people with us this time.
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We started out the outreach with singing and dancing until it got dark enough to show the Jesus film. Cigalimoto is a small village so I’m pretty sure that nearly everybody from the village showed up in time for the film. We showed the film, ate our sweet potatoes for dinner, and got ready to give an altar call.
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My dad first got up and asked if anyone wanted to receive Jesus. At first, people were nervous, but then some women, children and young men came up to receive Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit.
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After this we asked people if they would like to come for healing. One woman’s pain in her stomach left her and another was healed from Malaria.
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The village received us well. We packed up all of our equipment and drove off into the cold, African night, looking up at the Milky Way.
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Jonas Young

MOZAMBIQUE 2010 - Great Harvest School of Ministry

Lichinga, Mozambique
Monday, May 3, 2010
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Great Harvest School of Ministry
The official opening of our Bible School took place today. We are so pleased to have 25 students from 8 different villages in attendance. The daily schedule for the first semester is as follows:
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6:45am-7:30am - Reading and Writing Portuguese
7:30am-8:00am - Prayer and Worship
8:00am-9:00am - S.O.A.P. Devotionals
9:00am-9:30am - Break
9:30am-10:30am - Bible Basics
10:30am-11:00am - Break
11:00am-12:00pm - Gospel of Mark
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The first day went wonderful. There is such an excitement to learn more about God from everyone in attendance. We have 13 of the 25 students in attendance to learn how to read and write in Portuguese as well. The opening of the Bible School is sort of a culmination of our vision to reach the entire northern Niassa province, as we now have a place to bring back the Yao believers to train them and send them back to their villages. We are now able to give them the tools they need to plant churches in the many Yao villages north of Lichinga. Praise the Lord! Please pray for these students and the others to follow. Each student will receive a certificate of completion after graduating each semester. We are planning four semesters that are six weeks long this year alone. Then these students who graduate will be able to return to attend the second year.
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Christian Young