The first day we went with the church planting team to share the gospel in one of the neighboring villages. Its hard to describe, but think of walking through the brush (high grass) and then coming upon a mud-hut along the path every now and then. We were each paired with a translator from the local church. I was paired with Kenneth, who not coincidentally will be my right hand man at Seed Effect.
I got to share the gospel with the first group. It was a little intimidating and came across awkwardly, especially through a translator, and I thought it was going over very poorly with the group. It actually appeared to be received poorly with each of the four groups we met with. So I'm thinking I've just delivered the worst rendition of the Good News ever and with a little defeatist reluctance ask if anyone wants to know this Jesus, assuming the response would be similar to street evangelism in the US: please leave me alone. And to my amazement, the response was like "Yeah, that sounds really great, please tell me how to receive Him!" God doesn't work through eloquence (1 Cor 2:1) and amazingly 5 people received Jesus in just a few hours.
The church planting team had a wonderful week and regretfully we were only able to be with them the first day due to the work to be done for Seed Effect. Saturday we met with the team to discuss the microfinance operation and prepare for our first client Loan Orientation training. At first it seemed to be rather rocky as we had a hard time connecting, but after only a couple hours the team really came together and we made lots of progress.
Sunday we went to church and it was lots of fun. The service was beautiful in its simplicity, with quite possibly my new favorite worship song: literally the words "Jesus is number one" over and over again for about five minutes straight, and impressive in the depth of exegetical teaching with an entire hour devoted to Colossians 4:10-11 without a single thought lacking insight. I truly look forward to being taught by David Kaya, the teaching pastor who I will also live with.
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