Ministry Update

Well, it's been a while since our last post, but we have been super busy and our internet and power situation in Cameroon is not so great.

We have been busy doing lots of ministry stuff. We had a 4 day campaign in Ma'an and a lot of people gave their hearts to the Lord during that time. Joel was able to do his first two baptisms in the river there and we had the opportunity to try out all sorts of new foods like lizard, some huge bird, more viper, and lots of monkey(it tastes like roast).

We will never forget this years Easter Sunday. It was quite an adventure. We were having church in our new church plant and during the time of worship we heard someone yelling and throwing rocks at the church. We thought that someone was just trying to disrupt the service, but Joel stuck his head out the door to see what was going on and about 3ft away was a black cobra. It was about a 6 foot cobra that was trying to get into the church. It had tried to go in through the back door but it was a neighbor who was yelling and throwing rocks at it. When the cobra didn't succeed in getting in the back door, it tried to go right into the front window, where 25 people were praising God, with their eyes closed. We would have never seen the cobra coming in if it weren't for the neighbor throwing rocks. Needless to say, our worship was interupted and the men of the church grabbed their machetes to go after the cobra. Finally, after a couple of minutes they killed the cobra.

This could have been a major catastrophe. The cobra could've come into the church and killed someone. It was definitely a spiritual thing. For one, a cobra would not try to get really close to a lot of people make noise and clapping their hands, especially in the morning time. Also, this type of cobra doesn't even come from Cameroon. It is from southern Africa. We think that a sorcerer raised it and sent it to the church to disrupt the service. Lastly, one of the ladies in our church said that she had been having dreams of that exact snake. In her dreams, the cobra was trying to climb a tree and eat all of it fruit. So we are so thankful for everyone who prays for our protection. We would have never expected something like that to happen on Easter morning, but God protected us and we also had a newcomer to the church, who gave his heart to Christ that morning. We also had the opportunity to show "The Passion of the Christ" and 200 people from our neighborhood showed up. Well, it was definitely one of our most interesting Easter Sundays.

Well, we will post some pics of our time in Ma'an and try to post some pics of the cobra. Again, thanks for reading our blog and leaving comments, and also for all your prayers.