June 9, 2011

I skipped blogging yesterday, but I learned how to haul maul. It was a very long day. I moved brick in a line, not to good at that, got injured right off the bat. I can't catch bricks; to be truthful I just can't catch. So I stacked bricks, the bricks over there are lighter weight than in America. I hauled maul which is cement. The walls were six feet at this point so lifted pans of maul over my head passed bricks over my head and had the best time doing it. Doing anything to glorify God is good. There were young, old, pregnant, men and women all working together to build a prayer hut.
Took time out to visit with the children they don't speak too many English words and my speaking in Telugu is limited even further, but we still communicated. Tried to encourage them to go to the prayer hut they were so eager to help move bricks. Some of the kids showed me their Hindu god necklace proudly as they would try and relate to my cross or my wordless book bracelet.
Then we cleaned up and went to a discipleship graduation. It is a 30 day training Dwayne passed out during the ceremony. The light went out, but the ceremony went on. The great thing was when Dwayne got sick people started praying for him, you didn't have to request prayer they just immediatly started.
Stopped back by the village where we were building the prayer hut for an 11:00 o'clock dinner. Life is good.
That brings me to the Women's Conference. I spoke on faith to 208 women with the missionary as my translator. I didn't speak long, now I know to make my devotion go about 30 minutes. The women came from 12 different churches out of 34 in this district. I was the last of the three from Holland Chapel to speak Jessica spoke on love and did a fantastic job, Lori spoke on spiritual gifts, Sheri was planning on speaking, but stayed back today at the hotel. We missed her, but she needed to stay with her husband.
At the end of the service Jessica and Lori passed out lollipops and tootsie rolls to everyone as they left the building that is a big hit. You would not believe how big of a hit a lollipop is to someone whose focus is more on heavenly things, then material things. I was enjoying watching them, when our missionary asked me to pray for a lady who felt she dealing with some demonic issues and one who had physical pains. So I prayed over them. Then when I was finished there were more ladies asking me to pray, this went on and on and on. Some had their kids with them asking me to pray. It was wonderful praying for sisters in Christ. Lori and Jessica joined me and we went outside to join the missionary. Within a few minutes the men arrived from their workday.

Learned just how important discipleship is along with soul winning. We focus so much on leading people to the Lord, but do we focus as much effort on making sure people know what to do once they accept the free gift of salvation. How to live for Christ, how to lead others to Christ, how to live in this world until He comes back or we meet Him face to face?