Category: Stories
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Filled with the Spirit
By Rebecca Tieman, Memphis. TN This was it! All the months of planning, packing, and fund-raising, all the hours and days of travel, all the prayers and Bible studies, emails, and meetings were over. It was really here, we were ready to start. We weren’t visiting another church, school, or mission outpost. We weren’t signing…
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Now I have a name…
Note: This is a story from the trip in 2017. On one of our visits to the bomas in the bush, I was again paired with fellow missionary, Laurie Gent, Pastor Frank Mdindi, along with some locals evangelists. The locals knew who needed a visit and acted as a scribe to record the people visited. Pastor Frank was…
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First time missionary reflects on seeing 80+ baptisms in one day….
On Monday, June 5, 2018 I started sharing the Gospel with my team leader Joe Kuhlman. from Tulsa, OK. We shared with several young men as we went through our area of the village. As we were meeting with another man, one of the young men that we had just baptized came to us and…
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Open the eyes of my heart Lord Joy – The Greek word for joy is kevo which means grace.
Remembering other articles from Sharon Hyde from her 2014 trip…. Joy is not happiness that comes and goes, but rather true joy that flourishes not only in good times but in hard times. The people we met were all hard workers. They tended crops and livestock. They lived off the land. They didn’t have the…