Here is an article by JoAnna Latson, a FYM who has served for the past 9 months in Johannesburg, South Africa. She writes:
In the past month, our team has been sent out all over southern Africa. We had a group go to Botswana for visa purposes, to Mozambique for relief/outreach, and to Swaziland for outreach. We currently have a team of five in Mozambique, please pray for them as the circumstances are incredibly dire…but perfect grounds for miracles!
I went with the team to Swaziland and then I joined the Jeffery’s Bay team to return the week after. We stayed at the same place we stayed in October, the care point Thembini…no running water, no electricity, and plenty of spiritually and physically hungry children all over the place. While I was there, I visited the hospital many times, we were able to get into the prison and share the gospel…a miracle since the prison is virtually impossible to get into. The Lord opened the door for us to do the Easter service with the inmates…HUGE! We ministered in the hospice, and of course around the community we were staying. This is where my story takes place, the bush in Swaziland:
We, Ncobile our translator and I, walked about a mile to a homestead with huts. Cows, goats, and chickens were roaming all over the place. There were five naked little girls going about their chores. We shouted the greeting “Agaya!” and were welcomed by the make (mah-gay), the mother. She laid out mats on the ground and we were introduced to babe (bah-bay), the father…the head of the homestead. This man was the brother of the chief so he had a pretty high standing in the community. I expected to start sharing the gospel with the man, and began to prepare myself. However, Babe started talking and never stopped, not giving Ncobile a chance to translate. He spoke basically no English, so I was clueless for about two hours as to what the heck he was talking about—although I knew he was incredibly passionate about whatever he was saying! As Ncobile and I left the homestead, she summarizes the whole thing for me. He was miraculously healed from being paralyzed, and he decided to cast off all of his hopes in watchcraft and ancestor worship. He embraced the Lord with all of his heart, and both him and his wife believe that they have an anointing in preaching the Truth.
The whole time, I’m thinking AWESOME! We need to get these people Bibles and pour into them as much as possible so that when we leave, they will be the evangelists in the community, they can testify and spread the Truth, they can be spiritual parents to the children and make disciples. I believe that now that they have the Word of God in their possession, the Holy Spirit will speak loud and clear to them, they can test things by the Word…It’s SO exciting! I’m praying that God rains down His glorious and mighty power on the community of Thembini! That poverty dissipates, AIDS vanishes, and hopelessness erodes into a model of the Kingdom that is soon coming!
God continues to work in incredible ways in the FYM’s lives. They are finishing up their last two weeks in country and will be headed home. Their lives have been turned upside down and forever changed. If you would like to support this ministry and us, click on the
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To read other stories and view all the pictures from this trip go to Swaziland FYM Internship.
