Storytelling Evangelism - Day Five

Email from Kyle:

Today, we drove out into the countryside to work on storytelling evangelism with the Ethiopian evangelists. There were approximately 13 Evangelists who gathered in a rural hotel. Two of the evangelists walked 3 hours just to get to this meeting (and that was taking the shortcut through the wheat and teff fields). I had been given the task of storytelling. We did the story of Creation and the story of the Fall of Adam and Eve. You wouldn't believe how well it went and was received by the evangelists. We will meet in a follow-up session with these leaders next Thursday, where John has asked me to storytell the Flood.

On the way back from the training, we stopped at a rural house (not a house really), just a rented hole-in-the-wall to say "hello" to a lady that John's CHE (Community Health Evangelism) had helped by purchasing for her an oven with which she makes injera to sell. She had gone from the depths of suicidal depression to making a way for her and her three children. Of course, we stayed to observe the coffee ceremony. On the wall of her extremely humble dwelling were numerous verses of scripture. I took a picture of Proverbs 1:7 which states that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It's in Oromipha, so you and I won't be able to read what it says.

Then, tonight I got a telephone call from Brother Kurkura. He has invited me to go with him not this Friday but the next about 250 km south of Addis to spend Friday and Saturday night in an extremely rural area of Ethiopia praying with the church leaders down there and then preaching Sunday morning. The place is called Sheshemone. He wants me to preach the same sermon there that I preached in his church on this past Sunday. This is an opportunity of a lifetime; as people in this region do not often get visited by Ferenge. Nonetheless, before I commit to a 2-night overstay in rural Ethiopia, I want to visit with John and get his counsel.

All that to say, I feel as though I am seeing God on this incredible journey. I credit everything that is happening to the prayer support that is coming from back home. To date, I've only delivered 5 pairs of crocs but, I suspect that the crocs will begin flooding out of our hands tomorrow and over the next 7 days.