Missionaries Fernandez: A Pastor’s Vision, Up In Smoke & Tent Meeting

Monday, August 6, 2012

A Pastor’s Vision, Up In Smoke & Tent Meeting

This week we traveled to the Landmark Baptist Church of Mayanja to install doors and to check on the progress of the brick making.

The members of the Church have made around 3000 bricks leaving another 3000 that need to be made. The bricks will still need to be baked for three days but they are making slow but steady progress. Side Door

Work Crew

Spending quality time together with our people in settings other than evangelism and worship really helps build stronger relationships and also gives our people the opportunity to share their hearts with us. During our work time, Pastor Nixon gave me some great insight into his heart and particularly the vision he has for the work he is doing in Mayanja. I was totally impressed with his vision for the LBC Mayanja to be a soul winning conduit used to reach the four neighboring villages with the gospel as well as the work which is now taking place in Uganda.

It is one thing to have a great vision and it is yet another thing to have a plan to fulfill that vision.

Pastor Nixon has both and in great detail.

It is so exciting to work with people who share our passion to reach the lost as well as New Testament Church planting. He is indicative of the type of men we are currently working with whom are all of like faith, like minded and like hearted. God has really blessed us with a team of great men and women.

On the way back from Mayanja the truck lost power and started bellowing white and blue smoke like a chimney. A trip that should have taken an hour and a half ended up taking three hours. By the time we limped back to Eldoret the truck was barely able to maintain twenty kilometers per hour.

We have seen this coming over the last several months as it has been losing power and the engine has been consuming three to four quarts of oil with each trip. The irony of this situation is that we are so close with our vehicle fund to replace the Rover but now find ourselves having to buy another engine as well as trying to purchase a newer vehicle. Blown Motor

We know nothing takes God by surprise and he knows our needs before we even ask and we also believe by faith he will continue to provide for us in a great way. Let me also say that through this fund raising process for what is our largest and probably most important need, Terry and I have been truly humbled by the faithful sacrificial offerings given towards our vehicle fund.

Thank you, to every individual and Church who prayerfully and financially partner with us as we try to preach the gospel to the uttermost parts of the world.

In closing, we rented a Toyota Land Cruiser this weekend to travel to Soysambu in order to worship with Pastor Japheth and the newly baptized believers there, they were meeting under their new tent for the first time.

Rental Land Cruiser and new tent

This outreach is less than nine months old and is already bearing much fruit.

Tent Set Up

Soysambu Tent

These young Christians are growing with every lesson, every prayer and with every sermon, we are seeing lives being transformed before our very eyes.

By the way, there is something very different and special about preaching outdoors with God’s creation tugging upon your heart.

I realize that Jesus had to preach outdoors in part because of the size of the multitudes but I also have to believe He must have been equally inspired while preaching in plain view of His beautiful creation.