Thursday update - Christ in the midst of addiction

What an awesome day of ministry.  Our small team drove outside of Hosanna & parked along the road & started conversations.  We had a lot of really good conversations early & several people say they believed the good news & accepted Christ.  I have been coming to Ethiopia since 2009 & I have never seen so much chat.  Chat is a plant that grows in Ethiopia & the locals chew it because it is a narcotic.  We had multiple people offer us chat (which we obviously refused).  We had a chance to go into one of the local houses & share our testimony of life change & the message of the gospel.  This local house is where locals go to buy chat & there were 5 or 6 men inside the house that were eating the chat & preparing it in bundles for sale.  They kept offering chat as I was sharing my testimony of my past drug & alcohol use.  One man said he believed the message but he said that he was addicted to chat & that he didn’t know how to change.  We had an awesome time of giving him bible verses & praying for him.  As we started to pray for him, he got down on his knees in the dirt & put his face to the ground in a sign of submission.  I don’t know this man’s heart but he seemed sincere & there are disciple-makers who will follow up & disciple him if he truly wants to follow Christ.  

We have so many other stories of life change this week that I can’t even begin to tell them all.  Our closing ceremony this afternoon was AWESOME!!  We had a chance to worship with Ethiopian partners & rejoice in all that God did.  Tomorrow (Friday) we will start the long drive back to Addis & Saturday will be our day to do re-entry training as well as rest our bodies & eat some good food.  Each team members has been affected deeply by what God has been doing in the hearts of the Ethiopian people as well as our hearts.  

 

Please continue to pray for:

·       New believes to stand strong under persecution

·      Continued good health for the North Americans 

·      Safety as we travel the roads back to Addis Ababa

·      North Americans to process well what God is teaching us 

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