I was out in a Mozambique “bush” village with my team of 10 mission partners and 12 Mozambique Bible students for the last 3 days. Many amazing things happened! We walked from house to house offering to pray with those in need and people were encouraged, healed and so many gave us gifts of peanuts, cassava, bananas as a thank you.
After going out for several hours, I was walking alone outside our compound chatting to God and praying for our evening ahead when we were going to show the Jesus film to the whole village and pray with the sick.
“God, You know how much I’d love to serve the lepers as a full time mission…If this is also what you want for me to focus on in the next years, then please let me see a leper today.” No more than 15 seconds later, I saw an old woman sitting on the ground in front of her house and went up to greet her.
“Mahavo!” (Makuha greeting) and from a distance I noted her large lesion on her right arm. I knew it was a leprous lesion. I sat next to her and discovered her name is Linda… so apropos for such a miraculous confirmation from God that this is to be my future work. After chatting, I invited a Bible student to translate and I tested the lesion for sensitivity. There was no doubt it was full blown leprosy!
We prayed with this Muslim woman, Linda and I told her how much Jesus loved people with her skin condition. She was clearly touched. I am now arranging for her to get treatment. Amazing, isn’t it?!
We continue to have amazing speakers each day and I am gaining so much in regard to really forming a solid grasp on practical missionary work along with transforming my own heart and identity in Christ. The ecumenical aspect is encouraging, too and one of the long term missionaries is taking me to Mass weekly and we will be getting together regularly to pray for unity in the Body of Christ.
There is so much more to share, but I’ll keep these blogs short…Please keep your prayers going. You can see already how fruitful they are! I love you and thank you so much for partnering with me in prayer and sharing!
Much love,
Katie
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