Not the same old thing

There has been and will continue to be many opportunities to preach and teach. I preached at the church Camille and Esther attend today. There service is very similar to ours, except for the language, French. Immediately after the service we went to a meeting with women and girls who have been the victims of sexual violence. They come from their homes outside the city to Goma to get physical healing. Esther works with the women to deal with the emotional and spiritual brokenness and shares with them the healing power from the love of Jesus. The women were at various stages of the mental and spiritual process. In some of their faces you could see hope and others did not believe that hope exists, who can blame them! I could tell you some of their stories, but it is a little to disturbing for this blog. Check out http://www.healafrica.org/ to read more, this is the organization that is taking care of these women. Patrick and I were asked to share, and the women were very receptive to the message. Esther had them respond individually with what the message meant to them. Very cool!



Patrick, Camille and I had a nice walk back to the house as Esther had the car. The weather is fantastic, but it is hard to walk on lave rocks with sandals. 40% of Goma was cover in a new lava flow a few years ago, so lava rock is everywhere.



It has been nice being in constant fellowship with Camille and Esther. They are doing fantastic work and always have new ideas they want to implement. Their cell phones are constantly ringing with people who need help, direction, or many other things.



Tomorrow's plan includes: prison, radio station, assessing a feeding at a refugee camp, orphanage and youth meeting. We are out by 6:30am, so it should be a good full day.



Love to all.



Grace and Peace,



Michael.