Awesome day in Gravatai

Today was an awesome day!!!!  After a late night last night, we left around 9:00 this morning for Gravatai.  We were working with an ABWE missionary, Shane Latham in Gravatai.  We didn't know what to expect but we knew that we needed to be flexible.

I certainly didn't expect God to do such a miraculous work in the lives of the people that we visited.  We limit God sometimes by our expectations. Our teams were able to lead 42 people to the Lord!!!  There aren't enough exclamation points to express how excited the whole team was.  Not only was our team excited, Shane was excited.

One story that I cannot tell is about the last family that I visited.  Shane had asked for anyone that was a mechanic to visit this family.  So I volunteered.  This family lived in the same block as Shane lived on and Shane and his family have invested in this family for the last 12 years. Shane and his wife have sown the seed, watered it through their investment of their time and God allowed our team to lead this man and his family to a saving faith in Jesus Christ.

This is only one story about how Shane and his wife have invested their lives in people in Gravatai and this investment has been rewarded. It is definitely not our ability but it was God's power.  It was just awesome to be used by God.

An added blessing was that I was able to talk to Willard Stull who is an ABWE missionary from West Endicott Baptist Church (New York) where we were members for 20 years.  I'm not sure he remembers me but I am going to follow up with an email.

Prayer requests:
Art's tailbone - I think it is getting better or else he was so excited about the decisions that he was a part of today that God made him partially forget about the pain.
Jeff's shingles - This may be a long process of healing.  Jeff left after lunch today to go home.
Tomorrow visits in Belem Velho - this is the same place that we attended church services on Sunday night.

Praises:
Many decisions today
All our translators
Shane Latham's work in Gravatai
An early night tonight so that we can get some rest.