Easter Sunday

I hope everyone had a great Resurrection Sunday. We had a good time here in our church. In the Sunday school hour I taught from Mark 15 concerning the events of Jesus’ crucifixion, from the prophesies in the Old Testament to the brutal beatings by the people to the completed work on the cross. What a sobering subject; the price of our sin. Then in the morning hour, brother Greg preached that the resurrection is the foundation of our faith. Amen!

I spent the better part of a day helping Filimoni fill up the baptistry tank. We have no running water on our property so we had to take our 8, 20-liter containers about 1/4 mile down the road to the place where they sell water. We made this trip 8 times and spent about 5 hours in the process.

While no one was saved this morning, I was able to baptize two people. One was a young man named Filimoni. I led him to salvation in January after his second visit to our church. He had just moved back to his mother’s house after working at the Tanzanite mines for a time. It was about a year ago when the same mine collapsed killing more than 70 people. If I understand the story correctly, Filimoni was hurt in that accident but not severely. I can’t help but to paint a mental picture of the millions of people teetering on the edge of life not knowing that perhaps their next breath will be their last.

The second person I baptized was Mama Faibe. I would guess that she is between 50-60 years old. She has been a faithful attendee for the past several months.

A funny thing happened when it was her turn to be baptized. I explained to her that I would cover her mouth with a cloth and then dunk her in the water. Well, my Swahili is not real clear and she obviously didn’t understand me because she began to dunk herself. I interrupted her before she got too far and made quick work of her baptism. I am a Baptist but being dunked more than once is just a little overkill. Ha!

Thank you for your prayers on our behalf.
Please pray for our van to sell. I would love to sell this van and get a vehicle that can take the abuse of the roads and my rough driving.