My Swahili, Jay and Cathy's Special music and Kora's Salvation

Thank you for your prayers for me this week as I preached 3 lessons in Swahili. I feel that my Swahili is getting better every day. I still have a long way to go however.

This Sunday we started Sunday school 35 minutes late because no one arrived until then. While we waited Jay and Cathy practiced their special music for the morning service. Jay played the guitar and Cathy sung the Swahili version of “The Solid Rock”. This was the first time either had done special music here in Tanzania and they did a really great job! You can see a video of it on Cathy's facebook website click the picture below:

We had 2 new visitors in attendance today and a small group of regulars. One of the visitors, Lidia came with Anna as her guest. You may recall that I baptized this same Anna last week after Greg Wagoner led her to the Lord the week prior. Already, she is bringing her friends to church and being a witness.

After we returned home Sunday afternoon a man who lives in our neighborhood came to visit me. He explained briefly about a sudden death of a young man in his family. He then asked me if I could help him with travel expenses to go to the funeral and offered to work it off in the future.

One of the things I notice here in this culture is that people will sacrifice a great amount to help a neighbor in these areas: health, death, food and education. So when he asked me for $8 to help him with the travel expenses, I readily agreed. He offered to pay it back but I won’t be upset if he doesn’t.

As we were saying our goodbyes he told me that after his trip he wanted to come back to talk to me. He said he has wanted to get saved for some time now. He had been thinking about it for many days and wanted to change his life. This man was on his way to attend a funeral of a young man whom suddenly died but he was going to wait until he returned to talk to me about salvation. I immediately snatched up the opportunity to share with him the meaning of salvation and explained how to ask God to save him from his sin. He understood and received Christ as Savior! How great was that! He told me that he would like to take time to study the Bible with me and learn more about God.

Please remember to pray for him as he grows in the faith. I think his name is Kora.
Also pray for others who have been recently saved: Anna and 3 Massai boys.
Pray for our church people to grow in Faith and number.