Namibia

Well I just got back from an outreach to Namibia and what an amazing experience. I’m leading a team of 18 students from Europe and Korea, and just had an awesome time with them and with the ministry. It was a 48-hour bus trip (5 flat tires and one car accident) to the very northern part of Namibia, which is just to the northwest of South Africa.

We worked with tribal people. When I say tribal I mean what you see in National Geographic—no tops and skin painted red with clay and beef-blood. While the locals painted their bodies, we painted the community’s school and picked up litter at the police station and what they call a hospital.

The highlight for me was the evenings when we would sit around a campfire with our group and some of the local Christians and just fellowship. They would start singing their songs to God. It was of the kind of caliber you’d expect from singers we invite to the microphone at the front of our western churches. Here we were, sitting side by side in ‘the wild’ with no fancy technology, just the beauty of impromptu harmonizing. The sound quality was unsurpassable.

I got to hear how God is working in such different ways in a culture so different from my own North American one. We were told a testimony by one lady who used to be into witchcraft but is now a Christian. She had a story like Paul’s on the roadside where she was instructed to go see the pastor of the town. The Holy Spirit revealed himself to her as a Spirit of Peace. When she met the pastor everything he said corresponded with what the Holy Spirit had said on the roadside. He led her to Christ and now she’s walking strong with the Lord. She can’t read but God reveals the Bible to her in dreams. One of our translators who disciples her would tell her Bible stories she would reply that she already knew that story because she’d had a dream about it the previous day.

Our God is so much bigger then the box we put Him in in America.

Thanks for all your prayers.