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This is my final blog entry as I conclude "Zambia Glory." God has revealed and poured out His magnificent glory, grace upon grace, and thanksgiving now abounds to the glory of God amongst His people in Zambia, Congo D.R.C., America, and around the world as people in 48 countries have read these blog posts. Here is a praise report of what I can remember and know of that God has done....
* Given grace to many pastors to "faint not" because we "have this ministry" and "receive continual mercy."
*At least 200 people have made a profession of faith in Christ.
*Over 200 pastors were encouraged, trained, and mobilized to go back home and impact their people for God's glory. That means over 20,000 people will be immediately impacted in the days ahead.
*Two pastors forgave one another and reconciled after a two to 3 year time of harboring bitterness with one another.
*25 churches invited Encounter Zambia to come and do meetings in their church in the days ahead as a result of the pastor's conference.
*Youth workers were encouraged, trained, and stirred to keep impacting a new generation.
*15 people in the community have made appointments with Encounter Zambia for counseling and wanting to know more about Jesus.
*Many, many bibles have been given out to people who had none.
*Hundreds of Gospel tracts have gone out and planted seeds that we pray will take root and grow.
*God provided over $120,000 to bring Encounter U.S.A. to Zambia, provide 250 study bibles to the pastors, bikes for the Encounter Zambia team, bikes for some pastors who needed them, 130 book bags and supplies to school children who had nothing, a new chalk board for the Encounter Christian school in the village, furniture and a tool box for Peter, a refrigerator for Pastor Maybin, a couch for Pastor Barry, extra monthly support for Leonard, Barry, and Maybin, a suitcase full of medical supplies for the hospitals, over hundred pair of shoes and sets of clothes to children who had none, soccer balls for youth pastors to start new youth ministries around the area, some money given to an existing orphanage, money raised to start a new orphanage at the Encounter farm, a bike given to Charity, supplies given to ERM Zambia, a bike given to a Christian school teacher, supplies given to a Christian medical clinic, and a lot more that I do not even know about.
*Our lodge staff, about 6 men and women, who ran the hotel we stayed at in Luanshya for 12 days, were highly impacted for the Gospel. We were able to pray with them, give them bibles, Gospel tracts, and we found them one night reading the Bible to one another. These folks were not Christians but they told us when we left that we had brought them the Light and motivated them to do good!
*The Encounter Zambia team was invested in and their fire stirred. Several told us that before they came, their fire was almost out and they had considered giving up. Now they have been supernaturally stirred to expand their ministries.
*Two churches extremely encouraged, and several people who had strongholds demolished in their lives.
*Soccer clinics will now begin every week near the Encounter Zambia headquarters in order to tell young people about Christ.
*A man who was an assistant manager at a local general store, Nemo, was given a bible, heard the Gospel, and has committed to come to a bible study group with Pastor Barry.
*The district commissioner of the province, his aides, and the federal immigration office was impacted with the Gospel and given bibles.
*Hotel staff in Livingston were impacted by the Gospel.
*Encounter U.S.A. team members were stirred and re-dedicated their lives for Christian service.
*People in the states were impacted by the blog and were impacted with the Gospel.
*And much, much, more that others know, and most importantly that God knows.
So the mission that David Livingston started in the 1800's by God's grace, continues today. He left his heart in Africa, and while I get on the plane in Lusaka to fly out, a piece of my heart will remain here. For over a year, we have prayed for God to show up and show off on this mission's endeavor. Jesus prayed rightly every time..."Father, glorify Your name." We prayed the same by the grace of God, and God answered. Zambia glory came down, Zambia glory was revealed, Zambia glory was seen....God showed us that He fulfills His promises where ever we are so that every tribe, every tongue, every nation will be in heaven because their hearts were supernaturally transformed to think like Jesus, feel like Jesus, and to want what He wants. However, there will be adversaries. Just a few minutes walk from the statue of David Livingston holding a bible in the picture above, is a plaque commemorating the fact that George Darwin (Son of Charles Darwin) dedicated a bridge at Victoria Falls in 1905. So while David Livingston found the falls 50 some years before as a missionary and explorer spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ, George Darwin was right on his heels stirring a religion of doubt, skepticism, and atheism that his father had made famous. Darwinian evolution would take the world by storm in the years to come because it fits so well with the anti-God mindset of the world. This theory would leave in its path a wake of destruction: destroyed morals, loss of hope, stumbling block to the Truth, mass killings, Nazi Germany, and so much more. But the Gospel that David Livingston proclaimed would push back the darkness, shed Light, and supernaturally transform hearts to love God and love others. In other words, Jesus changes lives so that people will want Him. He is the "Desire of the Nations," and He is coming again very soon. So as I prepare for the return of the King of glory, by faith I will continue as a child of the King, a child of the Promise...and because of this I have no need to fear anything or any adversary...the Greatest Person in all the universe with all the power possible, holds me in His hand...I am His and He is mine. So as I go back home to serve where God has called me to give my liffe, may I go with this resolve..."Therefore we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not."
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