A Day In The Bush...

Greetings everyone! Let me put minds at rest, Rick and I are both doing very well. Neither of us are feeling sick or in any kind of danger.

Pastor Mendy took us to meet the ambassador this morning. He is very nice and has incredible knowledge about The Gambia. He is from Kentucky, which lead to us talking college football! You really never know what God has in store for you on a trip like this!

After meeting with the Ambassador, pastor Mendy took us to see the land he had bought to build a church. (He is currently renting a space, an it is somewhat small.) The land is in “the bush” as he called it. And while it wasn’t a jungle, it was wilderness. We drove until the “interstate” turned to a dirt road, far from town and most people. When we arrived he showed us an area 100 x 200 meters. Then he told us God had provided this place and he wanted not only to build a church here, but a Christian School as well! It was really amazing. Standing there with Pastor Rick I said, “So many people in America will never understand this. There aren’t words in the English language to express the sights here. You have to put your feet on this ground and see these things to understand.” Thinking back on that, it rings more true now than even then.

We left that location and Pastor Mendy took us to meet some young men he is training up to be pastors and see the place we are going to be preaching in the crusade. There, we meet Paul, one of the young men who described what the people here in The Gambia needed to hear. “When I preach about sin, it gets the people’s attention.” He said. “They need to hear that God will not bless them when they are drinking, and fornicating, and stealing. That brings God’s Judgment. But, when they obey God, that is when God can bless them.” Sounds so familiar. They may not live in the same way we do, but there are some things in this human life that transcend culture.

Tomorrow night we start the crusade. Pray that God would give us the words to preach and that God would open hearts of the people we are speaking to!

In Christ,

jon walton

P.S. The app I have to post this blog is not allowing me to post pictures here. I am putting some on my twitter account and Facebook.

A Day In The Bush...