Women At The Well

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We continued evangelism efforts at Mawe Tatu

(3 Stones) on Saturday in the western province. Much to our surprise and delight the team has grown from 6 people to 8 people. There was a new lady named Florence that joined Terry’s team of ladies and there was a new young man named Moses who is an Associate Pastor at a Church near Pastor Peters home. He had ridden his bike with Pastor Peter and a lady named Mary on the back for 4 hours Friday evening to spend the night in Mawe Tatu to do evangelism Saturday morning. If I ever start thinking of complaining about having to drive a couple of hours to reach Mawe Tatu I am immediately humbled by the thought of having to ride a bike for 4 hours to do evangelism. The kind of increase we saw with new people getting a burden for the lost is typical of the Lord’s faithfulness to his servants. If we will just do our part and be obedient to the Lord’s will he will give the increase. One person can make a difference in the lives of many others when they surrender and yield to the will of God. After Chai (Tea) & Makate (Bread) Pastor Peter shared a great report from his church in Indivisi. The week before Terry had taught the Mama’s in his church on evangelism. He said that because of the teaching there was now a team of Ladies that were going out on Saturday to do evangelism at his home district while he was at Mawe Tatu visiting with us.. He was so excited that those ladies had lead 3 people to Christ last week and they were going again on Saturday. One of our main goals and mission is to train Kenyans to reach Kenyans. We thank God that we are already seeing fruit from our labors in this respect.

As we increased in number we were able to divide up into more teams to cover more area. Terry and the ladies must have walked 10Km to (6 mi.)the forest where hundreds of people were planting crops on this

Saturday morning. I took the men and drove the green camel into the heart of Mawe Tatu where the actual 3 Stones are located. As you can see from pictures the 3 stones are more like 3 small mountains.

We found a good safe location to park the Land cruiser at an old Mama’s house named Violet. She told us she was so glad to see us and that she was a born again Christian. She said she has been praying for many years that her neighbors that live around the stones would come to Christ. With this beginning I knew the Lord had a great day planned for us. While we visited dozens of homes there were seven people who we shared the gospel with that made professions of faith in Christ. The English names of those that trusted Christ were: Rebecca, Wycliffe, Joseph, Martha, Naomi, another Rebecca and a lady named Chribili. Please pray for these that professed Christ as Savior. While I praise the Lord for all those that made decisions there were two very powerful meetings that took place Saturday. Women at the Well...

The first one was when we walked up on older Mama and her two granddaughters who were drawing water from a well out of the ground with a rope and a bucket. It was a moment when the Word of God was so alive in our hearts as we shared the Love of God with them. It was as if we were back in Samaria with Jesus at the well with the Samaritan woman. We shared the passage from John 4:7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, "Give me to drink." John 4:14 "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. "What a powerful moment in time as Peter prayed with the Grandmother and her granddaughters to receive Christ at that well. I explained to them that God gave them a real blessing because every time they return to the well to draw water they will remember the Lord Jesus and their salvation. Makes you want to cry with joy! There was a second meeting that took place Saturday which had nothing to do with the people we shared the gospel with but rather took place in the hearts of 4 preachers on the top of the largest of the three stones.

What started as an adventure to climb one of the 3 stones ended with Peter, Moses, Shadrach and myself looking out over thousands of shamba’s (farms) each with a mud house. The tin roofs reflected in the sun as

a reminder of the scope of the work at threes stones. We stood at the

edge of the rock looking possibly 1000 ft. into the valley below and

we saw the awesome responsibility the Lord has entrusted to us. The battle is great but as David said “is there not a cause”? The weekend closed with services this morning back at Landmark Baptist Church in Indivisi. Before services we visited a Pastor named David in our work with a small group of believers meeting in a rundown school. What a precious group of God’s people worshiping without the out the trappings of religion, just a pure simple faith in God. Terry and I left the western province with many blessings that included: 1 live Chicken, 6 eggs and a stalk of bananas. God’s people giving out of love for their God.

Thanks for sharing our Journey of Faith,

Chuck & Terry Fernandez

Kenya, East Africa