Yesterday (11/27) we had a very alarming and obvious attack by the enemy. Lately we've had many discouraging days in our village work. We've been praying hard for God to send someone to help us with the work - a godly man who would be willing to move from the city to the village. While in town last week, a man approached Larry and they had a long conversation about our ministry. We decided to explore if God is truly sending this man to us. We invited him into our home to start the process of getting to know him. Then he accompanied Larry to the village to see what we are doing there. After returning to town at the end of the day, Larry dropped off one of our workers at his home. While traveling through the busy marketplace, a drunk driver plunged into the back end of our truck (driver's side). The driver was going so fast that if he had missed our truck, he would have surely killed several and injured many people who were traveling along the road and shopping in the market.
After the entire ordeal of finding the police, filling out reports, getting a tow truck (none of which were easy) Larry returned home. The night guard greeted him with a dead black mamba snake. The black mamba is a very dangerous and poisonous snake. We have never seen any snakes in our yard, but how interesting that this one was seen the night that we took our new friend to visit the village with the possibility of working with us there! How interesting that it was a black mamba and not some lesser dangerous snake!We have heard Satan's message loud and clear and will proceed with the Lord's praises on our lips and in our hearts. Praise and worship are very frightening to the devil and it is one way that we can keep him away from us. Please join us in praising and petitioning our Lord for the ministry in these villages. The people desperately need Him. Satan has a firm grip on them and he doesn't want to lose anyone to Christ - the Life-giver and Hope of the world. And we look forward to the wonderful things God has in store for the people.
