It’s been two months since I saw thousands of Muslims give there life to Jesus! What an amazing thing we got to be apart of as a family here. If you remember, I left for Kenya on May 30th and returned home June 25th, which was a blessing because my anniversary is on June 26th. We Celebrated 13 years of marriage this year! The main reason to go to this specific town in Kenya was because of the high Muslim population. When we arrived in Malindi I was very surprised to see and hear how dense the population of Muslim was in the city areas. What I mean by that is, it seemed like everywhere we went it was mostly Muslims and you can tell by the way they dress and mosques (muslim temples). If you have ever traveled and been around mosques, they do prayer times 5 times a day starting at or around 5 am every morning and they have a person leading prayers from a very loud speaker located at the mosque. In Malindi there seemed to be no break in there prayer times most evenings, it wasn’t normal, it seemed radical from what I’ve been around in the past. There were groups of Muslims north of where we were who were coming down to where we were and kidnapping Children to enslave them for their radical purposes. There were many very sad things you would hear about what was happening in and around this area. Rastafarians had an influence like I had never seen in all of Africa. Rastafarianism is a big no no everywhere I have ever been in Africa. The Rastafarian groups were also targeting children and kidnapping them. It was crazy so many groups targeting Children for all the wrong reasons, its was very sad. Then there was us. After I had learned these different things I understood why God had led us to Malindi. We were going to turn the tide of what was happening to the youth and young adults in Malindi and surrounding areas. What happened was truly amazing! Think about it, for some of them it truly is now or never. Sometimes we think, well people have their whole live to make a decision for Jesus. Some of these youth don’t have that luxury, they could be kidnapped and never get a chance to hear the Gospel. My team saw 24,013 Decisions for Jesus in 3 weeks of ministry and many of them being from a Muslim background. Glory to Jesus! It was a true miracle from the Lord to get into so many all muslim schools and or mostly muslim school. In the city schools, 75% of the students were muslim so it was a real miracle that we got in and they allowed us to finish the Gospel presentation. We were able to access 99 schools as a team.
We had a great time connecting with the teams who would do follow up in the schools and help the students get water baptized as well. God is so good. Just last week one of the teams built to do discipleship is opening a church off of the work we helped start. Glory to God.
One of my favorite schools was a private High school we got into that was mostly muslim and the owner who was muslim let us do our program. Sometimes when you are doing schools specially muslim schools you have to worry about being shut down by someone who gets angry with what you are saying so often you have to be very on guard to defect anyone who may try to step in and stop the preaching. It doesn’t even have to be a principal, sometimes its just a teacher and if you let things escalate you can loose the school. So the person who isn’t speaking needs to be very aware of the situation and what people are doing. On this trip we had quite a few situations that we needed to be defense and get a teacher away from the preaching long enough for them to finish. At this school. Every teacher in the room with us is looking at each other and you can see their expression on their face is, is this really happing right now? But no one tried to stop us and mind you this is a very well todo school where all the rich kids went. So they all had a rich snobby kind of attitude (which I had never seen in Africa yet). Glory to God though 50% of the High School gave their lives to Jesus and it was amazing how we earned their respect by they way we challenged them with our testimonies and the boldness in which we preached. Then two days later we had one of the kids from this same High School approach us and thank us for coming. Wow, glory to God.
We also met a few contacts that said we they would help us put together a crusade which over three nights we saw over 1200 people make a decision to follow Jesus and so many healed. God is doing so many things all over the earth. We are moving into the greatest harvest of souls in history. God is using you by partnering with us, we are so thankful to all of you. God has been moving on my heart for America like never before. I believe he has shown me a strategic plan to make a real lasting impact here in our local neighborhoods through raising up evangelists, discipleship teams and hosting big outreaches every other week during spring through fall next year then in 2025 we will help host a big Crusade in which we will preach the full Gospel and God will confirm with signs and wonders. I have already began to test the ideas God has given me and it’s working, all glory to God. I ask you to please pray with us for our country and communities especially, that we will reach the lost and make disciples and disciples that make disciples. Jesus is King and let’s do our best to see him get the glory! I will be writing a clearer vision in the next month or so to share what God has done and is doing as we unveil this God size dream for Central PA and beyond. Please pray and if you get excited about what I am sharing here please get involved financially, we need the help to pull this off.
Christian Follow Up Material
Only God can get you into and all Muslim School, let you preach the Gospel, see students give their lives to Jesus and get follow up material.
The Grace of God
Grace upon grace. The grace of God will carry you further than we expect and will always empower us to do the job He calls us to.
I Wouldn't Have Guessed That
If three years ago you would have told me I would be apart of a team that lead thousands of Muslims to Jesus, I would have said, Amen but would have wondered how will that happen. The further and deeper we go with God the more we are able to believe and have faith for. We are all so blessed to be apart of this. I hope you have the same joy because it wouldn’t be possible with out you.
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