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 Baptism on Friday |
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God leads people to hear the message
October 12 2006 / ShareHim in Tanzania B, Aug. 11 - Aug. 26 '06 #71by Frank Remke
Campaign Site Narrative from Ushindi, Dar es Salaam in Tanzania B. The speaker assigned to this site was Frank Remke.
In August we were as Family (I, my wife and our two sons) in Tanzania. My son Fabian (18 years old) and I both preached the sermons. On my side it was very hard to preach because the people there are very rich and busy and so they have no time and mostly no interest for the gospel.
In the beginning of the evangelization I was very frustrated, because I have to start my preaching in front of an empty place, only a few church members were there to listen the sermons. A great help was every day before I preached, to show a part of the Jesus Video in Swahili. The Video was a invitation for the people. Many people came to see the video and then thy stay to hear the gospel.
On Thursday of the second week the Lord did a great miracle. On that day I preached the sermon “Survivors of the Longest War”, it is a sermon about the SDA-Church and after the sermon there was a call for baptism. Three women came forward and wanted to be baptized. One of the women, who belongs to a Roman Catholic church, had told us that the Lord had shown her in a dream the night before, that she should go to the meetings. So she came and listened to the sermon standing outside on the street and after the appeal she knew, that she must be baptized. And she and and the other women didn’t want to wait until the mass-baptism on Sabbath. They wanted to be baptized earlier. So they were baptized on Friday.
The Lord is great as he knows the right time and the right place for everyone. And sometimes he sends people to the right place to hear the right message at the right moment. Our responsibility is only to do his will, to preach the gospel all over the world and he will come soon.
In the beginning of the evangelization I was very frustrated, because I have to start my preaching in front of an empty place, only a few church members were there to listen the sermons. A great help was every day before I preached, to show a part of the Jesus Video in Swahili. The Video was a invitation for the people. Many people came to see the video and then thy stay to hear the gospel.
On Thursday of the second week the Lord did a great miracle. On that day I preached the sermon “Survivors of the Longest War”, it is a sermon about the SDA-Church and after the sermon there was a call for baptism. Three women came forward and wanted to be baptized. One of the women, who belongs to a Roman Catholic church, had told us that the Lord had shown her in a dream the night before, that she should go to the meetings. So she came and listened to the sermon standing outside on the street and after the appeal she knew, that she must be baptized. And she and and the other women didn’t want to wait until the mass-baptism on Sabbath. They wanted to be baptized earlier. So they were baptized on Friday.
The Lord is great as he knows the right time and the right place for everyone. And sometimes he sends people to the right place to hear the right message at the right moment. Our responsibility is only to do his will, to preach the gospel all over the world and he will come soon.