4 point message, 50 Bibles and 1 sick kid

4 point message, 50 Bibles and 1 sick kid

On Sunday I preached a message entitled "4 amazing statements concerning Jesus". I used the text in John 1:1-4, which tells us that: 1. Jesus is eternal, 2. He is not God the Father- He is a distinct person of the Trinity. 3. Nevertheless, He is God, 4. He is the creator of everything. That's quite a message to preach in English and honestly, even though I wrote out every word of the message, I struggled quite a bit with the Swahili. My vocabulary is still pretty limited. I have a goal this year to improve my Swahili to the point where I can easily translate for you when you come here to visit us. :)

This week we were blessed to receive 50 Swahili Bibles to use in our ministry. A church in Tennessee did all the work in finding the Bibles, ordering them, and Praise the Lord- paying for them. They even had them hand delivered from a city 1 1/2 hours away to our neighborhood. What a blessing! Now I have the difficult task of distributing them. It's not difficult to hand them out- it's difficult because everyone wants one. Because we freely hand out John and Romans booklets I am asked all the time for a complete Bible.

Pray for Daniel. He has had a high fever the past few days. We are watching him to see if he begins to show the signs of malaria or something else. One of our hardest jobs is being both pediatrician and pharmacist for our children. Thankfully, our kids have been very healthy overall and the Lord has had his hand of protection on them.

John looks to be in good condition this week. I was glad to see him at church because he is the one who leads our singing. Thank you for praying for him.

Just for perspective:
On one trip to the grocery store, I paid $31 for 4.5 lbs of mozzarella cheese (which turned out to be spoiled- still working on getting my money back), $8 for a gal of milk, $8 for the cheapest cereal I could find and on the way home, $90 for 18 gal of gas. (I mentioned this on my Facebook status recently but my figures were off by a few dollars.)