Watermark in Africa

Today (Friday) is our last full day in Ethiopia so this will be our last blog post for the June trip.    This has been an awesome week as we have seen God move in BIG ways not only in Ethiopian hearts but also in the hearts of the North Americans.   Our remaining time in Ethiopia will be spent eating some good food, trip processing & re-entry training & getting some rest preparing for the flight home.    People ask what is the impact that a short term trip can have & I would answer that as only God knows the full impact of our work in Ethiopia.    I told the North Americans that only in heaven will we fully understand the impact as some people have accepted Christ but many seeds were planted (people heard the gospel) & we will never know if someone else will harvest the fruit that we planted.    The disciple makers are believers who live in the areas where we were sharing & their responsibility is to follow up & shephe...

Day Three! After two days of a later start to our ministry day than expected, we all thought today would be a long day of sharing the gospel, sharing our testimonies and really getting after it. This expectation quickly dissipated when all four vans, filled to the max with North Americans, Ethiopian translators and disciple makers, drove 2.5 hours away from our hotel. We were now in DEEP Ethiopia. So deep that the Ethiopian’s cell phones were spotty or not working at all. Many of us Ferenge (white people) were at least confused as to why we drove so far, and some were even disappointed at how this drive would cut into our time to evangelize.    But as God has a tendency to do, He wrote this day perfectly for each and every one of us.    While there were fewer conversations today, many conversations were much deeper than day one and two. We had Muslim men and Ethiopian Orthodox families asking very good and intentional questions, engaging with us and our disciple make...

I thought day 2 couldn’t beat day 1 but I was wrong.    Our small team stopped this morning by the side of the road & just made our selves available to any Ethiopians who wanted to talk.    The 1 st  guy that we saw was named Mohammed Mekoro & he invited us to his home just around the corner.    We went to his home & sat outside under a tree & met his wife, his brother & his wife & his mother & a bunch of kids.    I introduced myself & shared my personal testimony of life change.    I then shared the evangecube & talked about God’s plan of redemption through Jesus Christ.    Mohammed said that his wife used to be a Christian but since he was Muslim he made her conver to Islam.    After sharing the cube Mohammed said that this was a good story & he believed that it was true but that he was afraid because following Christ would mean persecution since this was a Muslim communi...

What an AWESOME 1 st  day of ministry.    We loaded the North Americans & our translators in 4 vans & headed into the mountains to the host church.    When we arrived at the host church there was an awesome youth choir singing praise songs to the Lord!    The kids had such big smiles on their faces & the joy of the Lord was evident.      After meeting our disciplemakers, we loaded into the vans & drove to the mission sites.    The local pastors told us that this area was 97% muslim & we could tell right away that Christianity was in the minority.    My small team parked the van on a dirt road & myself & McKenzie got out & started talking with an older muslim man.    After about 5 minutes I looked up & we were surrounded by 20-25 people.    I shared my personal testimony of life change & then shared the gospel with the evange-cube (tells a picture story of God...