Goma - Day 11

Wow Day 11, where has the time gone. Did you know that the Angels have the best record in baseball and are entering the playoffs tonight versus the Boston Red Sox? It is difficult to stay up with all the sports scores with slow internet, but I do get on the internet in the morning and see how everything went.

I took care of the sponsoring of children in school today. We ended up sponsoring 10 kids in the Hope for the Helpless program and 5 children in the Berea school I visited last week. I will be receiving names and photos of all the kids and will put them up at church so we can continue to pray for these kids.

Camille and I just got back from the youth service at La Source Church. The praise & worship was fantastic. I preached from the book of Daniel and took a look at Daniel's life. Many times he had the opportunity to compromise his relationship with God but he never did. God blessed him for his uncompromising life. What would life look like for us if we never compromised? Are we missing out n blesses because of our compromise?

The pastor from the prison came by today to tells us that there had been an uprising at the prison. The issue was over the total lack of food and the prisoners were very hungry. He phoned later and said things where back to 'normal', pray! We will be taking the beans and rice with us, which should make us well liked. We will present the food to the authorities in front of the prisoners so they know that the food is there.

Pretty much all of Goma was on strike today to protest the lack of peace in the area. We think there was some sort of demonstration today, but we did not see anything. I did make the raids easier to drive on with less people and vehicles. I lost by chauffeur job this afternoon. Camille got his cast off and was back behind the wheel. His calf muscle is still very stiff and his knee is sore from lack of movement, but he should gain better mobility over the next few days.

Remember that as you pray, God may use you to answer your very own prayers.

Grace and Peace,

Michael.