Home Sweet Home!

Hey Everybody! Thanks for Praying! We are home and now busily getting ready for our trip to Mozambique in just a few short weeks. Thank You all so much for praying for us and making our trip a very powerful time. We love every one of you and are so blessed that you are on our team. GOD BLESS YOU WITH AN OVERFLOW OF HIS AMAZING JOY AND GOODNESS!!! Check out this video testimony --> It was amazing!

The Long trek to Rwanda

From Uganda, we got on a bus to Rwanda. From the time we left the
retreat center till our arrival at our guest house here we travelled
for about 14 hours!!! Let me say that the seats on the bus are about
"10 minute seats" so we were pretty happy to arrive!

A random fact about Rwanda- plastic bags are not allowed in the
country!!! They take them away at the border. This is to keep the city
cleaner... and by far, Kigali is the cleanest African city we have
been to. It's beautiful!

The Bible school here meets in the evenings so we've been hanging out
with Camarande (school principal) and some other pastors during the
day and then teaching at night. It's a really neat group of pastors
and they're really hungry for the Lord so it's been fun!

Tonight I was preaching and a woman got healed as I was preaching- no
one prayed for her and I wasn't even teaching on healing! She had a
hard time even coming to the meeting and was pretty sure she had
malaria but God totally touched her in the middle of the meeting.
Yesterday as Aaron was preaching the same thing happened! A womans
back got healed without anyone even praying for her! She got up at
the end and shared what had happened!

Aaron had some words of knowledge at the end of the meeting tonight
and a man who's back had been hurt in an accident got healed. He was
up at the front of the room doing push ups. We had a line of people at
the front giving testimonies of their healings. The people here are
very encouraged that God is moving.

Please pray with us that each student here and in other schools would
know that the kingdom of God is within THEM and they can bring revival
everywhere they go and that it's not just for a select few. That's
really what we've been trying to teach- it's not about the
"superstars" but about the whole body of Christ being raised up to be
powerful. This is somewhat of a new concept for many here. We want to
see lasting fruit from this trip and we know if students really get
this, they will continue to see God do great things through them!

Tomorrow is our LAST day of ministry here! It really feels like we've
been in Africa forever since we've experienced so much in a month!!!
We've had an incredible time here yet are excited to get back to the
people we love, our amazing church and our city. Every time we leave
we become more grateful for all we have at home. We are blessed! We
will post more pics and maybe some short videos once we get back- it's
a little hard to do it here! Love you all and thanks for sharing this
journey with us!

Uganda was AMAZING!

After Nambale we travelled to Uganda- the bus drive was a little less
crazy this time and very scenic! Uganda is a beautiful country. The
village we were in was lush and peaceful. We felt like we were in
paradise! More than anything we loved the people. I think Ugandans may
just be the most friendly, joyful people we've ever met. This is
definitely a place we could come back to and spend more time. Because
our time there fell on a weekend, we actually only had a day and a
half to teach in the Bible School and then we preached on Sunday at a
church. The students were so interactive and encouraging to be with
because they clap and shout amens after every good point. They are
really hungry for the Lord. The school principal, Patrick is one of
the sweetest, most humble men ever and we totally loved him! He is in
the process of building a new house so we got to go there and pray and
prophesy over it- it was a sweet time just being with him and his wife
and his beautiful family.

This was also the first time we were not staying at peoples homes. We
stayed at a beautiful retreat center surrounded by trees and natural
beauty. After being with people non stop- day and night it was a
refreshing change just to have a bit more privacy and time with the
Lord. The family that manages the retreat center treated us like
royalty and prepared amazing meals for us. We totally fell in love
with them. The mother, Eva was struggling with asthma and was having a
hard time sleeping but after we prayed for her she got healed! It was
sweet!

So, in conclusion, our time in Uganda just felt like a family reunion,
with a family we'd never met before but now can't wait to see again!
We believe God has many great plans for Uganda and the people there
are truly that nations greatest treasure!!!

Highlights from Nambale

> After leaving Nyahururu we travelled to Nambale- a small city in
> Western Kenya. We took 4 public vans to get there. The last one was
> a 14 seater... Guess how many were in there? 26!!! Oh yeah, there were
> guys literally hanging out of the door and we were pretty much stacked
> on top of each other! At one point the door almost fell off. Our
> luggage was tied to the back of the van and we thought it would fly
> off with the way our driver was speeding down the road. All that to
> say, thanks for your prayers!!!
>
> Teaching and ministry was good! Jesus keeps healing people! We've
> barely laid hands on anyone- we keep getting students to pray for
> each other and walk them through a basic healing model but we want
> them to get the breakthrough so they'll keep praying for the sick
> long after we're gone. The school principals mom got healed of back
> and chest problems and was jumping up and down. She's a pretty old
> lady - and she was really going for it in her rejoicing. it was
> such a fun moment.
>
> One of the things that greatly impacted us was that Jossin (the
> school principal) took up an offering for us on the last day. We
> stood at the front of the church as people came up and put their
> coins in a basket we were holding. Some even gave scarves and one
> man his socks! This is a very poor community so we were getting
> messed up! What Jossin didn't
> know was that several days before I had had the thought, "Gods going
> to break the poverty spirit off of the church that takes an offering
> for us". Not that we needed or wanted an offering but because we
> know what a great sacrifice that is here- especially since pastors can
> barely live off of the churches offerings. So, it was a very powerful
> moment. After that service we were hanging out with Jossin
> outside of a shop. We had just asked him how much he pays to take
> public transit to get home. As we were speaking a man none of us
> knew walked up and gave Aaron and I some money and just said "for
> the visitors" and left. The first miracle was an African giving
> white people money!!! The next thing was it was the exact amount
> Jossin needed to get home so we gave it to him. As the church gave
> us an offering just to honor us even though they had less than us,
> this total stranger was doing the same. It felt like what the church
> had done through their generosity released something in the
> community as well that caused a total stranger to randomly give
> white people money. Anyways, we're not sure exactly how it all
> works, but we felt like both these experiences were significant in
> breaking off the poverty
> spirit in that region.
>
> Lastly, we went to visit our host families daughter Mary in the
> hospital because she had gotten malaria. Next to her was a mother
> and daughter with malaria. Mary's parents and Aaron and I began to
> pray with them. Our host dad, Sebastian led them to the Lord and
> after that we prayed and their fever broke and they were healed!!!
> Before
> that, they were so hot that you could feel heat radiating from their
> bodies but after praying their temperature dropped and you could
> feel it immediately. We were also able to take Mary home as she got
> better
> as well. It was a sweet night!

Now, back to where we are right now-Rwanda... (we'll blog about Uganda
later) We had a powerful time at the Bible School tonight. Aaron
preached and tore it up and then we had some healing ministry and
Jesus healed more people. Come on!!! One of the pastors there told
everyone to bring the sick tomorrow night so we wanted to ask that you
pray for everyone that comes tomorrow to be healed. Our faith has been
growing more and more and we want to start seeing every person get
touched by God!!!

ON THE HOME STRETCH!

Hey Friends! We just arrived into Rwanda last night. God has done
great things and we really enjoyed our time in Nambale and in Uganda.
We'll try to post some more stories at a later time. We need as much
prayer as we can get in these last few days as our ministry schedule
has been very full in the last few weeks and travelling on public
busses can be tiring as well. Our immune systems are struggling a
little so pray that God would pour his spirit out on us and refresh us
and that these next days would be the best yet!!!