sorry i didn't get to write yesterday, the internet was down. anyway, the last two days have been completely epic! i spoke in 10, yes 10 schools to a couple thousand students and hundreds if not over a thousand confessed that they are turning from their sins and giving their lives to Christ!!! this was expected and exactly what we were praying for, so i want to talk about something that was unexpected. i spent the day with an amazing kenyan man named pastor samuel. he had a very tough and poor upbringing. he had tuburculosis growing up and his family didn't have money to pay for care. he was abused by family members that said they would help take care of him. but when he was 12 years old, he gave his life to Christ and he was healed miraculously from his disease and he decided he would dedicate his life to serving the Lord! he went through school while serving in the church and eventually started his own church that he still pastors. this church also operates a orphanage/primary school that has about 150 kids. samuel pastored for 10 years until 4 years ago when God called him into evangelism as well as pastoring his church. he has been doing all he could to get into schools and prisons along with doing as much street corner evangelism as possible. he struggled for several years and his family went to bed hungry many nights, but he persevered in his convictions that God wanted him doing evangelism. this man is now going to be on dsea staff and we will begin helping to fund him as he goes around africa sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ! he will now be able to take advantage of the tremendous amount of open doors that my dad's ministry provides. i believe there are currently 4 men on the dsea staff that reach over 100,000 people for Christ per year, but i believe samuel will be the fifth! as long as we can continue to get him a couple hundred bucks a month... one day when samuel was doing street evangelism, a drunk man with one arm began to cuss at him and tell him that god is either worthless or doesn't exist. but samuel began to minister this man and found out that he was formerly the head of a gang that bough and sold firearms and drugs but got kicked out when he lost his arm after a fight. after several meetings and much counseling, he gave his life to Christ and overcame his alcoholism and many other problems. he now runs an orphenage in the heart of a slum that has thousands of kids running wild because they are orphans. i visited this orphanage after speaking to my last school of the day and my heart was completely broken for them. they have 90 kids they are feeding, housing, and putting through school 100% on outsider funding. they have virtually nothing but the clothes on their backs and these kids sometimes go multiple days without getting an actual meal when the funding is low. but this man still teaches them about Jesus no matter circumstances they are in. i broke down in tears when we left this place thinking about all the money i've spent on frivilous, meaningless things in my life and wish i could give all of it to this man so he could better take care of these orphans. i'm making a call to both my small group bible studies to make a small sacrifice and pledge a few dollars to this orphanage a month. this will help more than words can say to get these children out of the deplorable circumstances they are in right now and at least insure that they have enough food to survive. i know times are tough in america, but it is less than nothing compared to what these orphans face every day. i know you don't like being asked for money, but please find it in your hearts to give up going out to eat once a month so that these kids can have something to eat at all. thanks so much for taking the time to read this. i really hope everybody can find it in their hearts to give a few bucks to this great ministry. money goes so far when buying rice or cornmeal overseas.
anyway, we have one more day of schools and the first two crusades are tomorrow. i will be giving the main message at one of them, so please continue to pray for me to let God's word to flow through me and that i can just get my flesh out of the way and let this happen. thanks again for all the support~stocky
P.S. i got filmed while speaking to a high school today, so i hope to be able to post it eventually. it probably won't happen til i get back to texas though.
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