Before I left the U.S. I went to the Lifeway Christian store and bought myself a small, compact journal (approx 3x5x1.5) to take on our AMT village expeditions here in Zambia.
9/6/2009 (Sun) @ 9:42am: This morning is the first opportunity I have had to write in this journal since arriving (Thur) on our first Advanced Mission Training (AMT) expedition. We arrived in the Simwatichella Kingdom around 4:00pm and the local villagers had our bush camp already prepared. They had built us a kitchen area, bathrooms, shower areas, and a cleared out area for our tents.
9/7/2009 (Mon) @ 5:05pm: Today I sat in while our leader (Dan Hoyme) and his wife Rachel spoke to the women about baptism. They had alot of questions about sprinkling vs. immersion. I would guess we had a group of about 40-50 women and a handful of young children. Almost all of the women said they had no education, no bible, and could not read. Therefore, they had to rely on what their respective pastors said about baptism. Dan basically just told them what the bible says about baptism.
After lunch, Joe, Chris Woodard, and Cairan spoke separate messages to the whole group. We prayed for and layed hands upon over 40 people form the group. They danced over to our camp and performed a song around our campfire. Dust was flying from the feet-a-stomping.
9:20pm: Sitting in my tent reading. The locals who are camped about 40 yards away are singing and dancing very loudly but it is a beautiful sound.
The desire to know Christ is so great here. Some of these "locals" traveled by foot or bicycle over 100km away to camp out and spend over 5 days hearing the Gospel.
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