Day 6 of Ministry!

Another Great day!!!!!!!!!!!! We started this morning at 7am for breakfast and headed back to the prison where we presented the gospel of Jesus to young africans age14-22. What an experience, I've added a picture of the morning for you to see. I can't believe they let us take a picture inside the prison. Normally they search everyone and don't allow anything like this. They told us they enjoyed the ministry so much that we could do whatever we wanted as long as we would agree to come back on Monday for the last ward. As a team we learned an african song and sang it to the prisoners at the end of the program and they sang with us it sounded incredible! These african people have such an amazing spirit about them. It is truly amazing to listen to them sing and talk, we are so blessed to be here. I hope the next time we come we will have the opportunity to bring many more from Sacramento.

We left the prison listening to cheers from the prisoners and headed again to Freedom Park. This was our last day of ministry with these precious people. We again arrived to children chasing after the bus and truck. Except this time the crowd was much larger. In our trailor we brought with us about 1700 oranges to give out for a healthy snack actually the oranges were probably the best meal these children have had in a long time. We went thought our program, we danced, sang, did dramas and loved the people. The only difference was that we prayed for the sick to finish the day. Almost every adult came forward to have a student lay hands on them and pray. What a site!!!!!!!!!! Our students praying for these people, I truly believe we will hear of miracles that come from these students and there prayers and generosity. Today we didn't buy the oranges for them to give away. If they wanted to give away oranges they had to purchase them themselves and they did exactly that. I'm so proud of our kids. We handed out the oranges after praying for the kids and waved goodbuy. Many of our kids and the african children said there goodbyes with tears running down there faces.

We then headed back to work at the school and shelter. The story that stuck out in my mind today was this little boy about 2 months old that was living at the Lighthouse childrens shelter. Hi name, Johannes. His mother died a week ago of aids and my son Drew was holding Johannes when the missionary told him to pray for a miracle. Drew was simply told if God doesn't intervene the child your holding will be dead in 6 months. My son was stunned, he was holding a soon to be dead baby. I watched him closely to see how he would respond and within about five minutes he was simply weeping while holding this precious baby. We talked and decided that our God was more than powerful enough to touch little Johannes. Drew said, "Dad can we take him home and help him?" I explained how that wasn't possible now but maybe someday. Please pray for Johannes. God can do a miracle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This baby can grow into a strong man of God. We believe it. The students all gathered around Drew as he wepped for this child and together they cried and prayed to God with great passion and desperation. I believe God will heal this baby.

Please pray.

In tears,

PDoug