Dear Prayer Warriors,
I want to thank you so very much for your intercession while we were on the river. The water was very low, which is typical for this time of year, and so a 9-hour trip took 13 to arrive at the villages and nearly 15 hours to get back! We did a lot of pushing, pulling and lifting the 1 ½ ton boat we traveled in but praise God we got there and back without any injuries.
The trip proved to be very encouraging in that we were able to share from the Word of God and pray with the people in the three villages of Santa Clara, Santa Rosa and Yarina and they were very responsive. We also told them about the 3-day conference we want to have November 1, 2, and 3 for these villages and we got a very good response to that as well. As of when we left 18 adults and 5 youth expressed a strong interest in coming. I will be contacting them via ham radio next week to get a final count but this is more than I expected.
The purpose of the conference is to bring the people out from all the demands of daily life to an area where they can fully concentrate on the Word of God, get trained and then use what they’ve learned in their villages when they go back.
Some of the topics that we will cover are: how to worship, pray, listen/study the Bible, lead a meeting, what is the local church and repentance. We are praying that as we go over all that we want to do and have them practice what they learn in each class they will become more and more comfortable and will begin to implement it as soon as they get back to their villages.
Would you stand with me in praying for the success of this conference? My goal is to have a conference like this once a quarter to fully equip the villagers in their walk with the Lord. In this way when the water is too low for us to come in they will be having meeting themselves and will not have to depend on us to bring them the Word of God.
Thank you so very much for your prayers, faith and commitment to this work. I am so very privileged to be joined with you to bring in the harvest for the Kingdom of God. God bless you mightily in all that you do.
Reaping the Great Harvest Together,
Sharon Malcolm
