Covering.
A couple days ago, one of our prayer warriors shared a vision about an
umbrella, how each section of the umbrella represented a different
portion of our trip; youth alpha is one section, worship is another,
prayer is another… Yesterday we visited our good friend, Rafiki, a
youth pastor at the church we are visiting this morning, who started
and continues to run a children’s ministry. Rafiki grew up being a
child soldier and his heart is for those kids. While visiting them,
God impressed upon us that we needed to create a ‘prayer tunnel’ where
our team would make a tunnel and the children would walk through as we
prayed for them. In translating this idea to the children, we
thought, how can you describe a tunnel to someone who has never seen
one? Tunnel was translated umbrella.
Before we left, the message that God gave us was: Peace, be still.
But that peace is in the midst of a storm…an umbrella in the midst
of rain. When we pray we’re spiritually covering the person we are
praying for. When we worship we are covering Rwanda. Pray that we
would remember that Jesus covers us. And we’re not creating our own
umbrella but rather gathering people under one umbrella: Jesus Christ.
Last night, we traveled to Busanza, a small village on the outskirts
of town, and ministered with a word, testimony, dance, worship. At
the end of the night, probably 50-80 children and adults accepted
Christ. Pray for follow up with these people and that the Holy Spirit
would continue the work that He started tonight.
Since my last update, Gary and Garland and their children, Zita, Flo,
and Helen all joined us and immediately stepped in. For almost 24
hours we were a huge team of 35, but the Ho’s and the Lee’s left us on
Saturday afternoon. But we know that even though they are not
physically with us they are still on the team. We thank God that they
will continue to wage battle wherever they are. We also want to thank
you for your prayers. You are covering us. We love you.
How you can pray…
Continue to pray against sickness. Almost all the leaders are feeling
a little sick. Pray for strength from the Holy Spirit. Pray for
healing.
A lot of our prayers have been for healing. We’ve been praying for
healing for the nation-that God would heal their wounds. As we travel
to different villages we often are called to pray for healing for
individual people. We’ve prayed for healing for those who are blind,
leg injuries, skin conditions, headaches, stomachaches… Pray for us
as we pray for healing–God give us faith in Him.
This morning we are traveling to a couple churches in the morning and
plan to show ‘Lion of Judah’ (Chronicles of Narnia) tonight to the
area we visited yesterday. Pray for more conversions and soft hearts.
Pray for Jonathan, the international youth alpha representative, who
is flying down to Rwanda on Monday. Pray for the logistics of the
training. Pray for relevance that God would show us how to use alpha
in a youth context in Rwanda to show people Jesus Christ. I don’t
know how to do this…
We are recording this next week with several worship leaders from
Rwanda. Pray for unity. Pray for an anointing of worship. Pray
against performance and pray for our hearts. We want to worship!
Blessings!
Marcus
Praise God for His amazing work! The entire mission team is being supported by prayer warriors at home in Adams and afar… family and friends… Pella members met tonight for a prayer service which included prayers for you and the mission team. Love You!