On Tuesdays, Jason and Steve have been going out into a village where people from the Turkana and Maasai tribe live, preaching the gospel and building relationships, teaching people about what it means to follow Jesus. And God is moving there in incredible ways.
I hadn’t been going, but a couple of Tuesdays ago, I woke up and heard God say to me that I should go. So I told Jason that I was coming, and four of us headed on our way.
We prayed beforehand that God would bring to us people who needed to hear about Him.
We walked around the village and met with people who our team had been getting to know. As we sat down to rest a little while later, we began to realize that God was about to start moving in that place. A man named Mike came up to us and sat down. We talked about life and about God, and he told us that he had been struggling with following Jesus. We encouraged him to keep going in the faith. Further into the conversation, I asked him what compelled him to come over. He responded by saying that he had heard that people were preaching about Jesus, and he wanted to know more about Him, so he came and found us!
After talking more with Mike and praying together, three or four more men sat down with us. An older man named Peter came to us and immediately said that he wanted to hear more about Jesus. Steve explained the gospel to Peter and told him more about what it means to be a follower of Jesus. Peter then said, okay let’s pray, I want to be saved! Steve prayed alongside him, and after Peter looked up, you could tell there was a change in his eyes and in his demeanor. You could see life and joy there. You could see Jesus!
One of the best and most refreshing things about this day (besides Peter coming to know Jesus!) was that people weren’t coming up to us because we’re white or because they wanted something from us, to ask us to help them or to ask us for money. No. They were coming to us because of the message we carried. They were drawn to what they had heard and what they saw, and they wanted to find out more about it.
And that is my prayer for every person here, every person we encounter. That they will see our lives and see something (Someone) in us that they are interested in knowing more. That they will see something real and powerful and authentic and feel compelled, to ask about it like these men did–they asked for Jesus.
