Sunday, November 25, 2007

A late update

Okay again i am very sorry for not updating this thing often. But ill give you all an update. We split up our class in half because its too big to do outreach all together, so last week (the week of november 11th to the 18th) My outreach group was in Usa River. No not U.S.A. Its pronounced Oo sa River. So basically it was the bush bush. No electricity, no running water, you had to walk to one of the little rivers, LOTS of mosquitos, and very very hot. It was a very good week. I learned a lot on how people really live out in Tanzania, because the majority of the people here dont have electricity, etc. It was a very humbling experience. We do prayer in the morning, then we do door to door ministry just sharing the word of God to people. Wewill pray with them if they except, and we invite them to the crusades we were having. I was forced by my leader to sing in swahili a couple of songs by myself, but that was really cool. We ate loads of sugar cane. Usa River has sugar cane growing EVERYWHERE!!! Ok and we would also do our crusades everyday, and we would have our own little prayer, worship, and sharing the word time for just us DTS students. Then at night time we did revival meetings. I had to preach on saturday. That made me a bit nervous because i have never preached before. So i just gave a bit of my testimony and just shared the grace of God with people and just said what He has done in my life. I was nervous up until the moment i went infront of people and the Holy Spirit just calmed my heart from there. Then this last week we had class again and we learned about the Heart and Character of Jesus Christ and the Cross, and about the Holy Spirit. I think this week was the best lecture week of all because you could just tell that the Holy Spirit was teaching through this man Tony and it just really spoke to us this week. He opened a lot of our minds to the fact that our old lives died with Christ on the Cross and we are really seated with Him. And that God isnt against us when we sin, but with us against our sin. And Also that the Holy Spirit is a person and we cant neglect the Holy Spirit because he is who gives us revelation about God, and allows us to interperet and hear from God. So it was a very powerful week. We FINALLY found out where we are going on our main outreach, and that is to Mwanza, Tanzania. Its very north of Tanzania. It is the second biggest city in Tanzania next to Dar Es Salaam, which is the capital of Tanzania. So we are very excited. Its a 14 hour drive from Arusha to Mwanza, but we get to drive throught the serengeti. so that will be fun. So we all need your daily prayers that God just strengthens us and that n one gets malaria because there are many many mosquitos there. And also today someone tried reaching in my pocket to steal my cell phone today while i was waiting for the Dala dala. But i felt him and put my hand over my pocket and he acted like he didnt do anything, so that was exciting. But God has revealed, i believe, plans that He wants for me, so please pray for me about that, because i feel like God is caling me to the Wyoming YWAM base, maybe staffing on their DTS. Which means i will be able to go do ministry in other countries for every DTS class. So just see if you feel that it's really from God. Thank you all and God Bless you all
love
-Daniel

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