QATAR 2010 - Five Flights and Two Days of Travel

Doha, Qatar

Friday, August 13, 2010

.

Five Flights and Two Days of Travel

We boarded five airplanes and were in the air for nearly two whole days as we travel back to the United States. We traveled through Qatar which is in the Middle East, which was a first for us. The hot, sticky air hit us like a thick cloud as we had a short layover in Qatar. We were told that we weren't allowed to eat or drink in public because it was the month of Ramadan, a Muslim holiday. So we stuck it out until we could board the plane. And as we were boarding the plane, our family was segregated into two long lines, one for men, the other for women. It is a strange feeling to adhere to the strict rules of an Islaamic government, even when just passing through. An interesting experience to be sure. Our hearts broke for the people of the Middle East, and we all interceded for them while we were there.

.

Christian Young

MOZAMBIQUE 2010 - Jesse Gets Chased By Elephants VIDEO

MOZAMBIQUE 2010 - Outreach in Mecula - The Final Frontier

Mecula, Mozambique
Saturday, August 7, 2010
.
Outreach in Mecula – The Final Frontier
In the northern Niassa province, there exists an extremely isolated area called the Niassa National Reserve. We had heard that in the Reserve there were many isolated villages with over 25,000 Yao people, spread out over hundreds and hundreds of kilometers who had never heard the gospel. We also saw on our map at the Bible School that there was a village called Mecula that was the furthest village in the northern Niassa province. A while back, we had said in our hearts, that the gospel must be brought to Mecula.

.
Months ago, we discovered that the YWAM DTS outreach phase would be in Mecula. At that point in time, we decided that we would accompany the YWAM team and assist them in outreach in Mecula and the surrounding villages. This past week, that which the Lord had placed in our hearts came to pass. We traveled in Freedom all the way to Mecula. We showed the “Dreams” film on Wednesday night and the Jesus film on Thursday night. We preached the word of God, led many in a personal, hand-holding relationship with Jesus, prayed for many sick and saw them healed, and even found ourselves interpreting dreams. The people were a mixture of Yao, Portuguese, Makhua and Swahili-speaking. On Thursday morning, we had a Spirit-led time of intercession in the one small Assemblies of God church in Mecula with the YWAM staff and students as well as local leaders of the church. God really revealed through prophetic words how key our time together there was, and how from Mecula, that all the surrounding villages would come to hear the gospel of Christ.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.
The Yao people of Mozambique are spread out throughout the Niassa province all the way to the Tanzania border. There have been prophetic words over our team concerning the Lord giving us the Road to Tanzania, and that the once unreached Yao people would be reached by the gospel of Christ. Through our travels, scouting trips, evangelism outreaches and studies of our Mozambique maps, we learned that there are four main roads to Tanzania. ROAD #1: Last year we traveled the main road to Matchadje at the Tanzania border. ROAD #2: Earlier this year we took a motorbike trip past Mavago on the road to Milepa. ROAD #3: Just a couple of weeks ago we traveled as far up the road to Tanzania as can be traveled by 4X4 along Lake Malawi to Cobue. ROAD #4: THE FINAL FRONTIER. This trip to Mecula was last remaining area of the Niassa province we were able to travel to and further the Kingdom of God. Thousands of Yao people have turned from Islam mixed with animism to Jesus in the hundreds of villages spread throughout the province. And to know that God has used us to fulfill His great commission in such a way is amazing. We feel honored and privileged to have been positioned as such in these last days. Miracles, signs and wonders have followed us, as He promised they would. We haven’t just evangelized. We have just planted churches. We have seen a movement begun that is continuing to extend the kingdom of God to the places we haven’t been able to travel to make disciples ourselves, and all through indigenous Mozambicans. WOW! Some missionaries work for twenty years in one place and have seen no converts. We have been here for one year and seen so much acceleration that it is almost unbelievable. Why? I really don’t know. One thing I do know, is that we have had the faith to see this happen. It was something God spoke to our hearts and, in faith, we walked out this plan, purpose and vision to reach the Yao people with the gospel. I believe that we are seeing just the beginning of the thousands of unreached people groups of the world being harvested, and how God wants to continue to use us, His servants, to reach the nations. I look forward to seeing how God continues to move among the Yao people of Mozambique and how God will position us in the future to continue to follow His heart for the lost, broken and hurting of this world.
.
We also got to see some elephants, monkeys, impalas and other wildlife, which was nice as we have seen these animals in abundance in the other countries we traveled through in Africa, but not yet in Mozambique. (We were actually hoping to be able to hunt and kill an impala for our team to have for dinner, but it wasn't as easy as showing up on their doorstep) Jesse even pushed the envelope and got chased be an elephant..

.
Christian Young

MOZAMBIQUE 2010 - Outreach in Massumba

Cobue, Mozambique
Monday, August 2, 2010
.
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.

.
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.
.
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!
.
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

MOZAMBIQUE 2010 - 2nd Semester Bible School Graduation

Lichinga, Mozambique
Sunday, August 1, 2010
.
2nd Semester Bible School Graduation
This past week 16 students graduated from the 2nd semester of our Great Harvest School of Ministry which we started earlier this summer. Most students were returnees from the 1st semester. They all received their Certificates of Graduation. Others who didn’t meet all of the requirements received Certificates of Attendance. 6 students received Certificates of Perfect Attendance and were rewarded with blankets. The subjects studied this past semester were “Character of God” and the book of James. We are so proud of these men and women of God.
.

Christian Young