Amy and Britney are volunteers that are serving with us here in Mozambique. I encouraged them to reach out to young women and build relationships with them. I was really excited when they shared with me that they have invited over these two young women too our house. This is church in the simplest form and hopefully by having fellowship with these two muslim girls, they will experience the love of Jesus. Floyd McClung’s latest book, How to start a house church, which he has written with Larry Kreider are now available. I highly recommend this book to you, it is available on Amazon.
Amy McMurtrey writes,…
Yesterday Britney, another volunteer, and took a chapa (taxi van) to the central market. While we were on the chapa we noticed two young girls sitting infront of us. They were talking, and tried to talk with us…but still my portuguese is not up to par. They laughed at us, Britney and I got off the bus and we went our seperate ways. About two hours later we walked from the market up the street in busy Maputo to try and catch a chapa home. There were sooooo many people waiting in line for a chapa; pushing to squeeze as many people as they could in the tiny taxis. While we were waiting we again encountered these girls. This time we tried to carry on a conversation. They shared some small cookies with us as we waited for what seemed like hours for the right chapa to come. In the end we invited them to come to our house for coffee and exchanged phone numbers.
Fast Forward to today…..
Today Acia (A-sha) and Fatola came over for coffee. They are 18 years old and attend a boarding school here in Matola. They came over for coffee, taught us Mozambican games, and played with the kids. When it was time for them to leave I went with them to their school and they gave me a small tour. I started talking with them and invited them to our house church. They are muslim and invited me to come to church with them as well. So this Friday I am going to a Muslim mosk and on Sunday the girls are coming here for church. Please keep them in your prayers. And also pray for me as I atempt to love them as Christ would and as the language barrier is frustrating.
Sunday morning early Luis, Pedro, Mimi, Timoteo, Sergio, Amy and I set out to the house of the grandmother and grandfather we help. We sat under the big Mango tree in their front yard. Woman and children came from the community came and joined us in worship, teaching and prayer. We had our African drum with us and soon we praised God in Shangaan and Portuguese. I shared the story of the prodigal son with them and afterwards we prayed for the sick. It was such an amazing time of fellowship in the dirt under a Mango tree with the poorest of the poor. Through out our time there I experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit. Afterwards some of the people wanted to know if we could do it twice a week? Africa is hungry, the harvest is ready and Jesus is calling to the Harvesters to come to the Harvest. Join us in our prayers, as we pray for people who will be willing to lay down their lives for the sake of the poor in Africa and share the love of Jesus with them.
