This is part 2 in a series about our Tanzanian Bush Adventure. It makes more sense if you start with Part 1.
You know a day is going to be special when you start it off by praying under
a thatched roof while the sun rises behind you.
We weren’t sure if they were kidding last night about the
5am wake up, but they weren’t! Sure enough, we’re all up and ready for the day
before 6am prayer with the pastors and some other church elders. From there, we
began my favourite day of the race so far.
Our first stop was at a secondary school of more than 600
students. As they call the students together for an assembly we are informed
that we are presenting to them about HIV/AIDS.
Ummm, what?
Thankfully, though,
Brent is with us, and he just happens to be a health and physical education
teacher at home, so he actually has a little education background on the topic.
So, being the trooper that he is, he stands up in front of hundreds of people
and begins to teach about HIV/AIDS, while the rest of us sit back and pray for
wisdom, knowledge, and God’s words to flow through Brent.
We closed with an invitation that if anyone would like
prayer to meet us at the headmaster’s office. By the time we get to the office
there is already a girl waiting for us. We gather around her and pray until she
announces that the pain in her chest is completely gone. Then we look around
and realize that there are more than 100 students forming a line, waiting for
prayer. We split up and each take a group to a corner of the room to pray.
It was a crazy time of prayer. I sat in a chair and prayed
for one student after another. There was a shortage of translators so I put my
charade skills to use. They would point to an area of their body, and I would
pray until I got a thumbs up. Then the next student would sit. And each of the
other five racers have similar stories – countless students just seeking the
Lord, and trusting in His power.
You know God has shown up in a
gigantic way when afterwards we can’t even count how many healings,
deliverances, and salvations happen in an hour.
