Oh my what a Sunday!

We had more than 10 baptisms yesterday at church! That's right MORE THAN 10. Sorry, I stopped counting...

But one of the many was a boy named Chijindu. Does that name look familiar? It should. Go look at my blog called Pictures and Prayer to see his picture. He is one of the newest kids here. He has been here for about 2 months now. Yesterday during junior church, what most of you know as children's church, he told Bev he wanted to be baptized. She pulled him aside and really got to talk to him about it. So he was saved and baptized all in the same day! What an amazing day!

It was so wonderful to see so many people come and get baptized. There were several times we thought it was over and then  someone would say "Wait! There's another one coming!" There is no baptismal here, it's a small inflatable pool on the ground.

One of the men baptized yesterday came to know Christ because of Joey's shooting. He told Joey he wanted to know the god who saved him. [For those who don't know Joey, the missionary whose family I'm staying with was shot in the face back in October.] He recently had heart problems and was very close to death, but is doing MUCH better. So the fact he could sit on the ground was a big deal in itself. Papa Ebuka was also a former pagan. And the head of pagan worship in his village. He also wanted to go to church because of the real Christians he saw there. He saw the difference in their lives and wanted to go to a church that lives were changed at.

Another man has elephantiasis in his leg. Bev, Joey's wife, began to treat him. He didn't understand why she did this so much without complaining. She explained she loves him  because God loves him, and he only payment would be to see him getting better. His foot is so large from the sickness he hadn't been able to wear a shoe on that foot for about 12 years. Well they had a shoe made to fit him. He heard from Papa Ebuka [man in above story] about God, and how he was saved. He said that if that pagan could go to church he could too. He hasn't missed a Sunday since.

Isn't God just plain amazing? Doesn't He blow your mind? I hope so. i hope you realize that the God in America is the same God to reach this remote small town in Nigeria. It's so amazing to see lives that have been changed. And to hear the amazing stories.

Did I mention that every Sunday since I have been here several people have come ti know Christ? I mean every Sunday. And they don't do the alter call in a dim lit Sanctuary. At the end of service they ask "Who wants to know Christ today? Raise your hand."  No emotional music, or dramatic thing. A simple question, with a simple life changing answer. Oh it's amazing to see those hands come up from all around.

Also on a slightly related note, church is outside under a covering they built. The kids and "youth" class are inside a building. By youth I mean like 16 to early 30's. While the adult class is outside under the covering. The junior church is inside as well.

Please pray that God would continue to move here. He's doing some amazing things.

 I love you, because He loves you. I'm here because He is here.