- Church member, Sam Jesse, shares about his recent overseas mission trip and all that God did during that. He also clearly presents the Gospel. This is from the service on August 13, 2023.
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Thank you all for coming today to hear Sam come up and share with us from his trip to Sambia, that’s the new name of the country. He made such an impression there. But I want to thank our mission action team and all of you in the church that helped to support him financially to go. But even more important than that, you were praying for him, so you very much had an active part and what went on there while Sam was there. We’re looking forward to hearing you today, Sam.
Good to have you.
That joke landed a lot better in second service.
If we haven’t had the chance to meet. I’m Sam. I go to this church. I’ve been going to this church for quite a while and I had the opportunity to go to Zambia on a mission trip for two weeks at the end of July. So I’m going to be sharing a little bit about that trip and then some of the things that we were teaching while we were over there.
I need to apologize first because my bag is still lost in Seattle and my razor keeps missing a spot, the one I have at home. So. But anyways, would you guys pray with me real quick before I start? Lord God, we thank you for the opportunity to share what you’ve done, the good works that you’re doing. Lord, I just pray that you would keep people attentive, help me to say the words that you have for me, Lord, and just to only speak truth here this morning, it’s your name we pray.
Amen. So this is Overland missions in Zambia. This is their African base. This is along the Zambezi river that splits Zimbabwe and Zambia. And it’s part of Victoria Falls, which is one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
So they were given this property, it’s actually a huge property by the government of Zambia in the 1990s. So that’s just kind of cool.
Eric Schmidt told me he fixed this, so I’m trusting him. Look at that. Okay, so what I was doing over there was a Farming God’s Way expedition. So it’s actually the first time they’ve taught Farming God’s Way, which I’ll get into in a little bit. It’s the first time they’ve taught that with a group of volunteer missionaries and not full time trained staff.
So it’s fun to be a part of that. The reason it’s in Zambia is not just because you can call it Sambia, but also because it touches eight other countries and Zambia is also the only Christian nation in Africa. So it makes it a really great, great Place to do mission work. And people ask a lot about flying. So it was a four hour flight or three or four hour flight to Seattle, 16 hours up over the North Pole to get to Qatar, and then eight hours from Qatar to Zambia.
And then in Zambia, they put you on a plane that’s not nearly as nice as that one for an hour to get to your final destination before you get on a bus. So it was a bit of travel, it was a two week trip and I felt like I was on a plane for two weeks. Weeks.
So what we were teaching was called Farming God’s Way. It felt really uncomfortable at first to be the white guy in Africa teaching people how to farm. That just feels condescending and wrong. But it feels a lot better when you know what you’re teaching is working. So this is Nate.
He’s on staff with Overland Missions and he bought this property that he’s standing in, or Overland bought the property about five years ago. And they’ve been farming God’s way for four years. And to put things into perspective, yield wise for what they harvest, a family in Zambia needs about 15 bags, they would call it, of maize. I didn’t talk to a single family who was harvesting that much, or oftentimes not even half that much. And on this piece of land, Nate harvested three bags the first year farming God’s way.
In the second year he harvested five. So huge improvement. The third year he harvested 27. And then this past year he was in the mid 70s. So that means if the people in Zambia can use this, they’re providing more than enough food for their family and they can actually send some people in their family to go work somewhere else.
They don’t have to just be farming all day. And it becomes less and less labor for some agronomy farm nerdy stuff that I can get into some other time. But the big lesson here is Nate’s been doing this for a long time and they do a lot of side by side trials. A lot of times people don’t believe this because like I said, you’re the guy coming to teach people that have been farming their whole life how to farm. So on the left is Farming God’s way corn plant.
Right next to it was a traditional farming plant that corn was maybe 5ft tall. The Farming God’s Way corn is about 12ft tall and has substantially more yield behind it. So what we’re teaching is actually working. The other big difference is we’re teaching these people that God has already given them everything they need. So on the right hand side, this person is buying seed, they’re buying chemical fertilizer and they’re plowing everything.
On the left, they’re doing no plowing. They are using an open pollinated variety which they can just harvest on their own. They’re using only cow manure and wood ash. So just they all burn fires and they all have cows. They’ve got all the fertilizer they need.
So that has no. Basically $0 of inputs. The right side cost them pretty substantial amount of money just to get started in the first place.
Maybe. Deb, can you help me out? Thank you. Okay, so this is some more agronomy, crop and soil nerd stuff. But basically what we’re looking at is on the right, the water is very clean and there’s in some of these containers, there’s not a lot of water.
On the left, this is out of a farmer’s field. You can see the water’s really muddy. Just for dramatic purposes, we’ll actually drink the water that has the dirt clump and the one on the right just to show them like this water is really clean. The point of this is the nutrients and soil are all in the top inch and a half of the soil. That’s where basically everything to grow is contained right there.
So if that’s all running off because it rains during the rainy season, you can’t grow very good crops. So how do we protect that? And that’s with the straw covering we have on top. And we show them how to do all that. But we’re conserving a tremendous amount of water.
And actually at the end they’re kind of like, hey, why are we plowing? Even though they thought we were crazy for telling them not to plow in the beginning. So it’s kind of fun. I’ve actually done similar demonstrations of this, like very, very similar to this with American farmers. And it’s interesting because the reaction is the exact same in Zambia as it is in America, where people are like, wow, I can’t.
Why am I doing this? And I don’t know, that’s why I’m showing you.
So it is cool. And also with that they don’t have to weed as much. So you can see the grass on top of there. It doesn’t allow weeds to germinate and come through. And so Nate who farms like 20 acres all by hand, spends maybe 15 minutes a year weeding, where otherwise people are out there every single day weeding.
So we try it. Okay. This is what a typical farming Gods way event would look like there’s a saying in Africa that Americans have watches and Africans have time. And what that basically means is they’re never on time.
So the first workshop we did started at 9am At 9am there were three people there and one of them was the chief. So I’m like, wow, we flew a long way for this. God. I said I’d do this even just for one person, but it would be nice to have like four or five.
So that was interesting. And then we didn’t start till 11 and at 11 there’s probably 70 people there. So it was pretty interesting. This is the center of 16 villages, so you can tell how bustling it is out in the bush. There’s just not a lot going on.
And my favorite story from actually this is there was an older couple who were there and they were there the whole time. They got there right away at 9. This is the second workshop, got there right away at 9 and stayed for the whole thing, which wrapped up about 5 o’. Clock. And they were elderly and we asked, do you want a ride home?
We had vehicle and yes, we would like a ride home. It was a 20 minute drive and a car to get them back to their house. So they said they had left their house till like 5:30 in the morning and walked the whole way to hear about this. So it meant that we were actually doing something good, I think. And this was probably 80% about talking about Jesus, but showing how that’s all part of farming.
I mean there’s like no, sorry, other jobs out there, but there’s no other job that relies on God. I feel like farming does. You can’t really make rain. You can’t tell the seed to just grow just because you put it in the ground.
It needs God to do his thing right. So teaching a lot of that maybe. Look at that.
What a handsome young man.
So everyone asks like, what animals did you see there? That’s always their first question. So I feel like I have to include this. This church did not help me fundraise so that I could see rhinos, but it was a neat experience. There are only 10 white rhinos in Zambia.
And we were driving one day and we saw this truck with these guys with machine guns and like, oh, it’s the rhinos. And they pull over and I’m like, that seems not what we should do. But they’ll actually walk you out to the rhinos and you get from like here to the back of the room or closer to the rhinos. But there’s only 10 left, so they’re guarded 24 7. It would be hard to harm them and they’ll definitely harm you if you thought about it.
So that was cool. They take 10 years to have a baby also. So this is. You can go to the next slide. That’s good.
We don’t need to see that face again. But this is really the reason I went. Right. This is why we support. Raised for all this, was to help people hear about Jesus.
Zambia, like I said, is a Christian country, but it has a lot of similarities with America. There’s a lot of people that say, I’m a Christian. And you ask them what that means. And it means they go to church once a month. Or it means like they know bad things not to do for sure.
And they’re probably not going to do those things most of the time.
So it was good to be able to bring like the good news of Jesus and what that is. So this is O Saint. He is in grade eight. And then the man on the left, his name’s Terry. He was one of our translators.
Terry was a cool dude. We were eating lunch one day after we had a really good house visit with a family that had. The man had five wives. So we got to talk about Jesus with all of his wives and they wanted to. To share with their husband when he got back, which was cool.
But we’re out in the bush. So think of like the most remote part of the Ice age trail where all it is is just tall grass and nothing around you. The bush is like that all the time. And you just wander around out there until you see a house. So we’re out in the middle of nowhere and O Saint walks up to us and he says, I want to hear about Jesus.
So we could not have done less. I mean, Terry’s still eating his orange from lunch in this picture. It was a cool testament to how God, like, provided everything for us on this trip. It really wasn’t about how well, even this morning, it’s not about how well I speak, it’s about what he’s already doing. So it was very cool to see that in action.
We had prayed that morning, like, God, we just, we’ll do this even for one person. And then we had this. And it was just such a perfect example. So it does feel maybe inappropriate to take this picture, but it was just such a such a cool moment. I want to be able to share with you guys.
So, oh, Saint, got good news. I’m going to give you the same good news I gave O Saint and that’s that Jesus loved you. He paid a lot on the cross for you. He didn’t die so that you could just be a nicer person. He died because he wants to have a relationship with you.
So you’re getting the gospel this morning. If it’s your hundredth time hearing it, awesome. If it’s your first time, even better. In the beginning. Genesis 1.
So page one of the Bible, God creates the heavens and the earth. He creates all the animals, the birds, the water. Maybe that already is controversial, but we’ll start there. Okay, that’s in the beginning. God says everything is good.
Then he makes man in his own image, so able to kind of deceive right and wrong. Maybe your dog can do that, but most things can’t. They don’t know what’s right and wrong. So we have this ability to know what’s right and wrong. And he gives them one rule.
Eat the fruit on this tree. And they’re tempted by Satan and know the story. They grab the fruit and they eat it. Because why not? All of the world falls into sin.
The world’s broken. We’re cut off from God because God is perfect. You can’t have. You can’t be a part of something sinful and be perfect. He’s perfect.
So we’re separated. And now Adam and Eve get booted from the garden. And then we have the rest of the Old Testament with the Israelites out wandering around and God being like, I’ll forgive you. And they’re like, oh, thank you, God, you’re so good. And then, oh, yeah, we forgot you forgave us.
And we messed up again. Over and over and over and over again. All the Old Testament. Was that a helpful summary, Pastor Robert?
He’ll go more in depth next week.
So anyways, so that’s the beginning. We’re separated from God. He can’t. We can’t have a relationship with us. We can’t walk in the garden with him because we’re sinful.
Okay? But even in the beginning, he has a plan because he knows that we’re going to inevitably fail. If God told Adam and Eve that all of the world is gonna suffer for eternity because you eat this fruit, odds are good they wouldn’t have eaten it. Okay, but he gave them a choice, and he gives us the same choice. Are we gonna choose to follow him?
Are we going to choose something else? So Isaiah 59:2 talks about how we’re cut off from God because of our sins. So we can’t just go to heaven because we’re a nice person. It doesn’t work like that. We need to have payment for our sin.
So pause the gospel real quick. I’ll go back.
Maybe that is where we camped for two weeks. So it was really beautiful. But I really was excited to have a running water shower. So anyways, next slide. So we need to have payment because we’re cut off from God.
So think about the Old Testament. They’re always like. It feels like you read the Old Testament, half the time they’re just killing animals. They’re telling you what animals you can’t kill and what animals you should kill. Because God’s showing like there needs to be payment for your sin.
Because. Because you’ve disobeyed me. And God is just right. We think about how we want justice on something that’s wronged us. God is just.
Sin needs to be paid for. And so Israelites are constantly sacrificing these animals to be reminded of what they’ve done wrong. Like they’re separated from God. So Romans 3:23 tells us that the wages of sin is death. So what we’ve literally earned for all of our good works is death.
That’s. That’s what that verse tells us. Romans 6:23. Help me out. Somebody just blanked.
The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. Yes, There we go. Okay, so we’re. What we earn is death. In Zambia, the wage every day, it’s about 7, 7 kwacha an hour, which is about 30, 35 cents.
So that’s their wage. I imagine many of you have higher wages than that even. But what we’ve earned for all the good things we’ve done for God is death. So what a message of hope I’m giving this morning. But wait, there’s more.
Okay, so then there’s Jesus. Where does he fall into all this? So we’ve got the whole Old Testament. God keeps forgiving. We keep.
Yeah, you forgave us. And then we forget. Then we have. We have Christmas. We have Jesus.
We all celebrate Christmas. Ton of us have crosses in our house. But why did he die on the cross if all I have to do is be a good person? He died because what we deserve is death. So John 3:16.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in him shouldn’t die but have eternal life. That’s why Jesus. So that’s God’s plan. Even in the first chapters of Genesis, being acted out all the way, you know, fast forward several years, keep it broad. So.
So. Oh, wait, what? Oh, yeah. Okay, go back. That’s fine.
I can do that. Pause. This is open for him. You actually can’t see this. I was trying to take a picture.
There’s a monkey standing in this trail and he was just. Yeah, the monkeys stand there and if you have a bottle of water, they won’t bother you, but if you have a bottle of Coke, they’ll fight you for it. And they’re very. Someone told me that and I thought they were joking. And then I saw it happen and I was like, that is terrifying.
So I was really scared of the monkeys after that. Anyways, so that’s the bottom of Victoria Falls. That bridge goes into Zimbabwe. And there are actually people bungee jumping off of that, which just seems so safe. So.
But okay, we’re lost in sin. But Jesus died, right? He didn’t die so he could be a better person. He came to give us grace. Grace is a fancy church word.
And I’m going to try to summarize it like this. Somebody has committed a terrible crime. Okay? Somebody gets killed in the process of this crime even. And they’re standing in front of the judge.
And because the judge is just says, you have to pay for the crime. Mercy would be. The judge says, you have to pay for the crime, but I’m forgiving you, you’re free. That’s mercy. But grace is different.
Grace is an undeserved gift. It’s something that we don’t deserve. Grace is. The judge gets out of his seat and says, you do deserve death. And he takes off his robe and he goes and puts his life down for you so you can be free.
That’s what Jesus did for us. That’s grace. So God’s grace doesn’t run out. It’s like a well that just keeps pumping. This is a borehole in Africa.
This is where we got our water. Every day it takes about 15 minutes to fill that five gallon jug because the water runs out. And you gotta wait for the water to come back and then you can pump a few more minutes and then the water runs out. And these kids sit here all day and they pump the water and it runs out. You can actually see.
I thought I was a strong guy carrying a pail. This lady was just trucking pails up the hill with that on her head, no hands. It was amazing. Anyways, God’s grace isn’t like this. It’s not like, oh, man, God, I messed up now.
I guess this is it. Or I gotta wait a few minutes or a few years. God’s grace is like our tap water. You turn on the water and it just doesn’t stop. It just keeps going.
And even if you forget about it, God’s grace is just like, running through you. That’s. That’s God’s grace, what he paid for you. Next slide. So it’s maybe not what a lot of us think.
Like, Ephesians 2, 8, 9 talks about how we’re only saved by grace, not by works. It’s not about how much money you’ve given. It’s not about doing more good things than bad things. At the end of the day, you know, it’s not about, I haven’t missed a church service in 30 years. Well, if you haven’t missed a church service in 30 years.
And Jesus died on the cross. He didn’t do it for that. He died so that he could have a relationship with you. You. So we’re saved by grace.
We’re saved because of what Jesus did on the cross, so that nobody can boast about how that got into heaven. There’s only one way, and it’s through Jesus.
Let me make sure I’m still on track. I haven’t looked at these notes.
Go back three slides. I’m just kidding.
But it’s not about being, like, baptized when we’re an infant. It’s none of those things. It’s only. Only by God’s grace that we’re saved. So the example I like to use is the thief on the cross.
So it’s, think about the three crosses up at the Crucifixion on Easter, on Good Friday. Jesus in the middle, and he’s got a criminal on each side. And one of the criminals is mocking Jesus, and the other one basically tells him to stop. And this is Jesus. This is the Son of God.
And Jesus tells him that today you’ll be with me in paradise, because they’re on the cross, like TikTok, you know, but today you’re going to be with me in paradise. And I think that’s the perfect, perfect illustration of how we need to come before Jesus. Like, it’s not. We don’t need to prepare our hearts for years and become perfect before we can talk to him. We don’t have to understand everything he’s asking us to do.
We really don’t have to understand much. We just have to know that Jesus is who he says he was and that he died on the cross for our sins. And I think the thief on the cross is like the perfect example of that. Because the guy was. I mean, whether you’re old or young, the guy was running out of time, like, literally.
So I just. That’s a beautiful picture of how we can come before Jesus. We don’t need to have our hearts. We need to have our hearts with a posture of ready to come to Jesus, but they don’t need to be perfect.
So, okay, where I’m at. So we’re also promised when we come to Christ, we get his forgiveness, we get a new life, which I’ll talk about in a minute. But we have this eternal promise of a new body, of going to heaven where there’s no more pain, no more tears. And that’s good news. That’s really good news.
Because actually Jehovah’s Witness yesterday said, would you want to live forever? He pulled in my driveway that didn’t call him or anything anyways. He’s like, would you want to live forever? And I. And I was like, sure.
You know, he said a lot of people say no to that because their life is miserable. Okay, Real conversation starter. But whether he’s right about that or not, like we’re going to have eternal life in a place where there’s no brokenness right now because we have sin in this world. Like, things are broken. Relationships don’t work like they’re supposed to, like it talks about in the Bible.
Like, even farming is hard because of sin. Heaven’s not going to be like that. So this man right here and then his wife was sitting next to me. This is one of my favorite house to house visits one day. It’s our last stop of the day.
And we did some quick introductions and then just get right into it. What do you know about Jesus? And he just says in English, you’re late. And then that he received Jesus in 1962. And his wife tells us she received Jesus in 1960.
And so they’re both. I mean, this guy probably remembers the Old Testament well. This guy was old and him and his wife are both blind. He sits in that chair every day. She sits on the bench that I’m sitting on every day until their kid gets home from work.
And that’s their life. And that’s not really what hope is there there, right? I mean, if you don’t have God, there’s no hope there. But they have hope of a new body and being able to walk again with Jesus. And that’s, that’s the same hope he’s offering to all of us.
There’s a country music song that I really don’t like. But it always played when I was milking cows and had a line that I’ve never seen. A hearse with a trailer hitch. I’m not sure how good the song is. Probably don’t look it up.
But it’s true, right? The things on Earth we can’t take with us, but this man and his wife, they had hope of something so much better than that.
So.
Is there one slide before that?
Not back one? There we go. Okay. So we’re also told here on Earth, so that’s after we pass on. But here on Earth, we’re told we’re made a new creation, so we’re turned into something brand new.
Okay. It doesn’t mean we’re never going to sin again. And when we do, there’s grace. But it does mean that God’s going to work in our heart. So, Maggie, read that God’s going to give you the desires of your heart.
Yes, that’s in the Bible. No, it probably doesn’t mean if you just read that, what you think it does. It probably means that God’s going to work in your heart and reshape it and align it with his desires. And that’s a real thing that’s going to happen. I am not the same person I was before Jesus.
That’s a fact. So we become a new creation. I’m going to share the testimony of the people on the screen right now. This is one of the days you’re going house to house. And we were just on, like, a streak of really, really awkward, slow starts of trying to talk to somebody.
And then people, like, going in and out of the house, and you’re in the middle of a conversation and they’re having side conversations. And it was really weird. But every one of those visits that day had ended really well with, like, people praying to receive Christmas. And this one was very similar. So the woman furthest to the right, it was just her when we started.
And we said, what do you know about Jesus? And she gives us the gospel like, I’m presenting right back to us. Like, wow, that’s amazing. Is there any way we can pray for you? Yeah, my husband, he drinks too much and he won’t stop.
And he’s becoming worse and worse and worse. We’d love to pray for you for that. So we pray with her. And people in Zambia don’t show emotion. But she looks up, you know, she’s got tears in her eyes.
And like, less than 10 seconds later, her husband walks out of the house like, this is. This is going to be Interesting. Now we know this about this guy. He doesn’t know anything about us. Start from scratch.
Share the gospel again. This guy’s in tears. Praise. Receive. Christ says, I don’t want to drink anymore.
I want to go dump out all my alcohol. And he said, go do it, please. And just as we’re wrapping up with him, the other man that’s in the middle comes and he’s under the weather, if you get what I’m saying. He’s been drinking all day. And so we started having conversation with him, and his dialogue’s kind of improving, and.
Same thing, like, tears in his eyes. I want to receive Christ. And then his wife comes. It was one of those days. It was just.
You wouldn’t forget it. But we’re a new creation. I’m not saying these people are never going to drink and sin ever again. That’s not what I’m saying. But I’m saying is that because they have Christ living in them, because they’ve received the Gospel, they are made new.
So they’re set free from the things that they were just, like, chained down to before. Okay, next slide. Now go back to. There we go. Okay.
This is at the school one day. But I think a lot of people hear this good news, and they say, what. What should my response be to this? So this is Romans 10, 9, 10. It says, like, if you confess that Jesus is Lord and he’s faithful, he’s going to forgive you and you’re saved.
That’s it. That’s the whole message. It’s not about what you did. If you could do something to earn it, then why did Jesus die on the cross? I mean, that’s a terrible thing to endure for something that you could have just done yourself, but you couldn’t have done it yourself.
He was the perfect sacrifice. So we’re saved by this.
Make sure I’m on the right spot here.
So if we. Go ahead, two more slides.
So finally, we can’t be separated by this. By this love that we receive from Jesus, because it’s perfect. Because our sin is. Is completely paid for. There’s nothing more we can add.
Nothing can separate us. That’s what. That’s what this verse is telling us. The good news is, Christ, he didn’t just die. He rose again.
He had power over death at the end, three days later. That’s why we celebrate Easter. That’s why we do Easter egg hunts. Even though Easter or rabbits don’t lay eggs. We do it all for this, because Christ rose again in the same way Even when we die, we can have the hope of eternal life.
We can overcome death by Christ, and then I can flick my mic so we can do all those things. So that’s the gospel. We were sinners. We had a debt to pay. Christ died on the cross.
The plan from the beginning to pay for our sins so that we could have relationship with God. And he’s inviting us into that. We have a decision to make so we can receive Christ and we can have this free gift that he’s giving us. Let him transform our heart. Old or young, he wants to have relationship with us.
We can make that decision or we can say, not for me today, but we can’t not make a decision. If you don’t make a decision, then you’ve made a decision. So I’m going to pray and lead us in a prayer of the same, the same prayer that I led O Saint to. So if you guys would pray with me, if this is something you want, please pray along in your head, that would be great. Dear Heavenly Father, Lord God, I thank you for today, for the opportunity to hear the good news of what you’ve done for us, how much you love us, how you’ve rescued us.
God, I am a sinner and I don’t deserve the forgiveness that you’ve given me, Lord, but you love me so much that you’ve given it to me anyways. Lord, I want you to come into my heart and transform it, make it new. God, would I be a new creation because of the work that you’ve done? Or would I be raised to life just as you were? Father, just come into me and stay with me for all my days.
Amen.
That’s what O Saint, prayed. That’s what all of you have the opportunity to pray today, any other time. That’s the amazing reality, O Saint, back to him. He’s never known his father. His father was in prison his entire life.
He was raised. I think first was his aunt, but it was actually his grandmother that raised him. And she was. She was pretty unkind to him. And he was getting involved in, like, witchcraft and just going to the witch doctor, trying to find some way out of what he was going through.
And so when he came to us, he was given the same hope that I’ve just talked to all of you this morning. I think we’re tempted as Americans to say, well, I have hope because I’ve got a great savings account, or I have hope because I’ve got family that live nearby. That’s not eternal hope or what I’ve given you this morning is eternal hope. So dwell on that, think on that. Finally, this is the Great Commission.
So this is some of the last words of Jesus before he’s taken up and he’s telling us to go. So this is the good news you have. You’re kind of told by Jesus it’s time to leave. Maybe not Lodi, but you might be called to go further than you think to share this good news because Zambia is not too far to go to share this. Nowhere is too far.
How can you put a price on giving someone eternal life? You can’t. So we’re told to go and make disciples. And I wanted to say thank you to the people of this church, my parents, but also like growing up here, there was a lot of people who weren’t shy about their faith and were able to share it with me. And because of that, I’m able to go do something amazing for Christ and you’re all a part of that.
But in Matthew 5, Jesus talks about like being a light and you’re not a light under a bowl. You’re not. My faith is pretty secret to me. You know, it’s not like that. It’s meant to be something that we’re sharing, a light to our whole communities.
So let’s not be a light under a bowl. Let’s share the good news that we have. So thank you for your support. This is the team that I traveled with. There’s five translators, a random Zambian lady, and a few full time missionaries.
But that’s the crew. In the end, over 320 people were able to pray to receive Christ, which is amazing. So that’s all part of the work that you guys did to help send me. So thank you to the mission team and also thank you Maggie for holding down the Jesse fort for two weeks. So all right, thank you guys.
Thank you, Pastor Robert.