This is an account from one of our racers, Evan Kinney, on Team Lamplighters from their time in Laredo, Peru. I’ve been spending the last few days with them here in Cochabamba, Bolivia and loving life. We’re hanging out at a beautiful children’s home with 17 children who were abused, neglected, or abandoned. My heart is happy. I’m loving my time with the children and having a blast with seven awesome men and women of God answering the call that there must be more. Team Lamplighters is a powerhouse team promoting the Kingdom and pressing into the heart of the Father. God is so good and doing an awesome work, not only in this team, but in the communities they reach.
Please take a short moment to read this account:
Sitting in the church, in those padded chairs last Sunday morning, with a heavy cloud cover that has only broken maybe a handful of times since we have been here, God showed up in exactly the way I needed to see Him show up. Nathan was preaching on the healing of man who laid on his mat down by the pool waiting to be healed. After he preached, we wanted to pray for the church community, whether they just wanted to be encouraged. Well, we were overwhelmed by amount of people coming down to be prayed for. People stopped on the sidewalk outside the church in curiosity as to what in the world was going on. The first person to walk down the isle to be healed was an elderly woman who walked with a walker, and it took her a long while to work her way down there. I was thinking in my head that we should walk to her so she doesnt have to exhaust herself, but I think she needed that to see God work in her life, because after the pray, while she still needed the walker, she walked briskly back to her seat in tears and amazement of the power of the Holy Spirit she just experienced.
Another elderly woman came up to me with a blind, fully blue with no pupil eye, and asked that she be able to see again. It still amazes me that the Holy Spirit chooses to use me, but I prayed over this woman, and at the end of prayer, she had full color back in her eye and a pupil again! All she could do was hug me as she cried and walked back to her chair. The woman sitting next to her, then came up and asked for prayer. This continued for a good 45 minutes, people being healed, crying and we all worshiped Christ as He is the only way any of this is possible.
God used a goofy team like this to heal a town, not for them, but to show the power and glory of Christ. And the best part: they can do this as well in this town, because they are empowered by the same Spirit we are empowered by! Such encouragement!
Read more at: evankinney.theworldrace.org
