Happy New Year

Well it was a long night on new years eve as promised. Rob went to a service which lasted from 10 pm until 3 am. It was a lot of fun he said. Rob preached and they had a lot of songs and dances. They even got Rob and Ernie to dance a little with the kids. Each of the pastors spends three days fasting and praying for their congregation. They pray specifically that God would give them a Scripture for the upcoming year. They call this the promise word. It has been neat to ask each pastor what the promise word is that they have been given and to hear their vision for the upcoming year. Today was the monthly fellowship celebration for the pastors and they shared some incredible stories. I am so happy to hear how God is moving through them. One pastor spoke of his church and said that one Sunday he noticed that 5 teenage girls who usually come to the service together, did not show up. The next week when they came he asked why they could not come the previous week. They all live in an orphanage together and they said that on of the girls who lives with them was fighting an evil spirit and that this girl kept them up all night screaming and running around the orphanage. The pastor (Stanly Foljer) asked the girls to bring the girl fighting the evil spirit to him. They did and the pastor had several people pray for the girl. After a long prayer the girl was delivered of this evil spirit and became saved. Now 20 more girls from the orphanage are coming every week to church. Once they saw the change in this girl they knew that God was real. I am just amazed at the faith and the answers to prayer that we see weekly. It is much easier for me to understand some of the scriptures in the new testament because this culture seems very similar at times. God is so Good.