The Work in Lesotho

Lesotho is pronounced Le-sue-two. It took us a while to get an understanding of
this country. We heard so many
things. That it was cold, mountainous
and snowy and comments like “why would you want to go there?” I also noticed a sign at the boarder that
said “Fight against Xenophobia.” Xenophobia was defined as hate or fear of foreigners! Yeah we felt invited. Praise God every person we met was incredible
and did not fear us.

We
began our ministry going up the mountain to a village that we could see. We hiked up and tried to communicate with
people and quickly realized that we needed a translator but we still spent the
whole day just sitting with the woman in the village. Next we prayed for a translator and a day
later a man walked off of the bus with us and he spoke English and the local language
Sosotho and he was a Christian! We asked
if he would help translate and he said yes! We went and talked to more people about who Jesus is and we discovered
that most people are Roman Catholic. The
first day we had our translator, Bernard, we were invited into a hut and about
20 adults and children surrounded us. We
shared with them about Jesus. Our whole
team spoke up and just began to talk about who Jesus is and what his purpose
was to make sure they understood. Then
one of the men that we prayed for asked “Is there something I can read about
what you told me?” We were so overjoyed and said “YES, of course the
bible!!” We later bought them
bibles. The rest of the community proved
to be just as open to hearing about Jesus and prayer.   (pic above first hike up moountain; Pic below when we handed off the gospel picture scroll)

One
morning while we were praying I felt that it would be cool to draw out a few
bible stories on this roll of paper that I had and present it to them to help
them understand the bible that we got them. I told the team not really sure how it was going to happen but they took
the idea and made it happen. Part of us
researched the bible stories and we did about 15 people in the bible. We ended up making a really long scroll that
had pictures and verses and at the end presented it to them!! (Pic below Steph presenting the scroll)

We
also participated at Bernard’s church and preached there. We prayed for them and I received a vision
for them. That was exciting for me
because I did not know anything about this church and the vision I had lined up
exactly with what they were going through!! My vision was the Holy Spirit
plowing a new path from the main road and asking them to follow and trust God
even though sometimes there are thorns and thistles along the path. I just wanted to reassure the pastor to trust
what God was leading him in for the church. After that I found out this church was a church plant and just broke off
from the main church the day we came! We
also let them know about the gospel scroll we made and they are planning on
using it!