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Posted by Pastor Mark Schulz on Feb 7, 2012

OUT OF AFRICA… AND VERY THANKFUL

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1: 8 (pmu for 2.7.12) And so I am back … from Africa. I am still ‘processing’ the trip internally, and quite likely will be doing so for some time, for there is so much to consider, but I’d like to begin with a few...

Posted by Pastor Mark Schulz on Feb 3, 2012

Tomorrow at noon we leave for the airport.

Tomorrow at noon (4 a.m. Tallahassee time) we leave for the airport. 5 flights and 28 hours later Matt and I should touch down in Tally. God be praised for all that has happened in the last two weeks, and thanks to all who have been faithfully praying for us!!! I told the people tonight (they threw an evening cookout with about 40 – 50 in attendance) that we can give thanks to God that even as the...

Posted by Matthew Warrington on Feb 2, 2012

Help from the Prayer Buddy

Today has been a rough day. It wasn’t for the usual reasons though – it was a rough day because it was surprisingly unrough. After the first few dozen patients of these first two weeks, it seems like everybody is starting to blend together. The stories are similar, but the same. Everybody is dying it seems, and they are unconsciously depending on us to keep them alive. We discovered another...

Posted by Pastor Mark Schulz on Feb 2, 2012

OK, so we had a great Safari today

Including seeing over 100 elephants, 75 giraffes, countless wildebeasts, numerous kinds of antelopes and gazelles, wharthogs, and baboons. Oh – yes, a lioness chomping on her recent kill of a Cape Buffalo only 15 feet from the road. She gave the 6 vehicles full of gawkers no heed whatsoever. But the truly memorable thing about the trip was this: I survived the transportation. Since being in Kenya and...

Posted by Pastor Mark Schulz on Feb 1, 2012

Went to a school in the major slum in Mwanza today

We did the Ministry Carepoint ministry, which is a ministry to orpahned children and children in ‘at-risk’ situations. They were incredibly enthusiastic. You should have heard them sing and seen them dance and jump as they sang. Amazing! In addition to Biblical teaching they are each given a plate FULL of food that they just goble down! I brought a guitar and taught them the children’s...

Posted by Matthew Warrington on Feb 1, 2012

Some Good News

Joe is alive. He’s doing EXTREMELY well. Still not quite strong enough to walk on his own, but well enough to be dismissed from the nicer hospital in town and go back home. He was so thankful and his wife was almost in tears as we helped him into his house. This was a life that we did indeed save – a wonderful success story that happened within 2 weeks. Imagine how much can be done in a year! ...

Posted by Matthew Warrington on Jan 31, 2012

Culture Shock

The people here are so free and open about their religion – it’s really a beautiful site when you think about it. We listened to a Choose to Wait class being taught today; for those who don’t know, it’s a Scripturally based classroom lesson that goes on for a year and a half that teaches abstinence till marriage (as well as only having one wife and gender equality). These kids clung to these...

Posted by Pastor Mark Schulz on Jan 31, 2012

Today we were part of a “Choose to Wait” class at a local high school

The school has about 800 students. This class which is a curriculum that instructs students about aids and GOD’S plan for sex is taught from a distinctly Biblical perspective. It is an effort to curb the spread of the Aids epidemic. Get this – this is an “elective” and 200 children crammed themselves into a room about 20 x 20, spilled out the doorway and peered through the open...