Page 4 - Good News September 2014 paper

uring July this year, 72
people from the nine
Dprovinces of South Africa
and three continents, gathered in
4x4's and on motorbikes at the
Pafuri Border Post. They ranged
in age from Daniel (8) to my father,
Leon (83). They had one mission
in common: To bring the Gospel
to the Central Gaza Province of
Mozambique.
The group was divided into five
smaller teams - the crusade,
outreach, discipleship, farming
and pioneering teams. As the Kim, Rosalina, and Kerry
pioneering team our mandate was
to go into remote areas on motor- led her to Christ and then prayed
bikes and 4x4's to locate villages that as her spiritual eyes had
that were unreached and yet open been opened so too would her
to the Gospel. We set up camp, physical sight be restored. As
did outreaches into the villages she opened her eyes she began
during the day, showed the to exclaim “Ngi bona, Ngi bona!”
Shangaan version of the Jesus (I see! I see!). Her face was filled
Film at night, preached, and with absolute wonder as she
prayed for salvation, healing and looked at our faces, the crowd
deliverance. around her, and at her own feet.
Two individuals impacted me She shared how she had spent all
deeply. This is their story. On our her money on doctors in Maputu
first day in the village of Chisapa, who were unable to help her.
situated on the banks of the “I was led here by the hand,” she
Limpopo River, we did door to explained through our inter-
door ministry. We came across preter. “Tonight I can walk home
Rosalina who was crippled, blind alone because Jesus healed me.”
and had intense dental pain. We She smiled broadly, turned
led her to Christ and prayed for around and walked into the dark. I
healing. Nothing was initially was left alone, suddenly wonder-
evident. ing if what I'd seen was real. How
Two nights later while praying for blind was she really? Had I
people, I felt a tug at my arm. I imagined it all? I asked Jesus for
looked down into the clear brown clarity as I walked towards a
eyes of a laughing Rosalina. group of women standing at a
Jesus had healed her completely! fire. I asked if they knew
She had walked to the meeting, Porcelina.
her mouth was pain free and she “Porcelina? Yes, she is the blind
could see! lady in our village,” they replied.
Another blind woman, Porcelina, “Jesus just healed her,” I said,
also came forward for prayer. We Continued on p. 5
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