Testimonies from the Field

We are partnering with a missionary who works with UPGs in the remote jungle villages of our country. I recently travelled with him to visit two new UPGs. We had to travel 16 hours by train and then another 4 hours by car to reach the first village. After that, we could only use bikes on rocky dirt roads to reach the other villages in the jungle. So far, our missionary friend, who goes there three times a week, has managed to tap into 9 villages. There are altogether 400 villages with 20 people groups in this area. This area is so remote and primitive that I was the third outsider to ever visit them! The people are purely animist, but God is already moving mightily in their midst. They are very open to the Gospel. Within 30 minutes, we were able to gather 400-500 people. Amazingly, on the days that our missionary friend is unable to be there, a 5 year old boy has been “holding the fort” - villagers come to him for prayer, and deliverance and miracles are happening as this little boy prays for them “in Jesus’ name”! As these people speak a dialect that has no script, a 12-year old boy has been translating songs and scripture passages from the common language into their dialect. Talk about the faith of children! People walk 30-40 km to this village just to get prayed for. Our missionary friend says with 4-5 more people on his team, he’ll be able to accomplish in one week what would normally take 10 months on his own! May God provide more workers for this harvest field!

We are extremely grateful for the Bibles that we were able to purchase as a result of WO donations. Here is a picture of the group of young leaders at a leadership development session held in Mozambique, who received the Bibles. When they arrived for the training, not one of them owned a personal copy of the Scriptures and Ps. Mauricio, who was leading the seminar was in the process of copying out passages of Scripture by hand to distribute among the members of the group. Each participant ecstatically received this wonderful gift and then in addition they were also given a couple of extra Bibles to take back to their districts where there are massive shortages of God’s Word. In some of the villages, they only have a single Bible for each church that has been planted.