conference chaos and the wedding

hi there again!
things are going well here, though this weekend is hectic but so fun!!
there is a conference being held here this weekend where loads of villages are invited to come and there are some amazing speakers who will be talking to the people of Mozamique.
there have been people arriving since monday, by bus, walking crawling, and there are about 3000 estimated to come in total and they sleep on the floor in the church, outside, just anywhere, and go to the loo anywhere too!!

there is also a wedding on sunday where everyone is invited like the banquet in the bible where all the poor and the needy are invited and the lame and crippled will be the special guests. so as you can imagine our chores have been multiplied by quite a lot!! we have so much fun cleaning the latrines, spending hours on kitchen duty,serving people,being security, just anything really!! its so much fun, i never really realised how much fun cleaning poop could be!!!

so its just a little hectic but its nice to meet the people and there will be healings and deliverences, and allsorts in the meetings in the next few days, it lasts till sunday evening,so very exciting!there are so many people out there that need serious healing, deliverence from witchcraft...its gonna be great!and here you can be guaranteed that there will be loads that will come to jesus and loads and loads of miracles!!
i shall tell you more about it when i next get a chance to write!!


well i am writing a little more here to say about how it was:

there were more than 4 thousand people present it was an amazing chaos!! they slept on the floor of the church and in the fields, and we had to serve them for hours in the kitchen!! there was a little rioting when they thought they wouldnt be fed and when they wanted to be fed, but there was always enough food!!

it was great! one night though i went and i stayed at the back and prayed for some people and so on and played with a baby and then at the end i was just talking to an old lady on her way out and i put my arm round her and just tried to practise the little makua that i knew and so i asked if she was going to go up for dinner and she said yes, and so we went together and so then she kind of put all her weight on me as we were walking and so i looked why cause she was quite heavy and i saw that her right leg wasnt working and she had a stick. so i walked out of the church with her and then asked if she wanted prayer cause i was a little tired. and so i sat her down and my room mate came to pray. so we asked a few questions and she received Jesus and then so we prayed a little for her leg and then we felt we should massage the leg as well, and we felt that there was no muscle behind at all and so we carried on massaging and praying and little by little a little muscle was appearing and then so we told her to get up and try to walk and so she got up and then she took a few steady steps whilst we were helping her and then she took more sure steps and then we let go of her and she carried on walking and then she walked all the way past the line waiting for dinner and pushed in at the front and she was singing and so excited!!! it was amazing!! we were very happy to throw her stick away for the first time in 16 years!! god is so good!!!

there were loads of people who wanted to be baptised also , so after the church on the sunday all went down to the sea and they all got dunked!!! i was just amazed at all the people who were in the line waiting to be baptised, there were so so many, it was really amazing! not the usual baptism service!!!

i slept one night in the church too with a friend just to socialise and see what it was like at night there. it was interesting, it was so cold and people even if they are only three and everyone is sleeping, they dont turn the volume down!! so every hour we would wake up to heated conversations!! needless to say that i didnt get a satisfactory amount of sleep but i had fun with the makua women, and managed to learn a little more makua and teach a little english too, and have a good laugh!!!

the wedding was amazing, it was Heidi's daughter Cristalin Baker and Brock Human. we spent a few days in our houses making loads and loads of cakes for the dinner as some people have never had cake and so it was special.
the ceremony was on the beach, with a beautiful arch covered in flowers, and the turquoise sea in the background. there were loads of people there, africans that just joined and the children singing and in beautiful dresses. and then there was the dinner. the cripple and lame, the blind everyone was invited and the government people were also invited and they were eating on the stage with the cripple. angela my friend was at one of the tables!!! it was amazing, so many people, i had to put chicken on the plates, and i was so sweating and tired at the end!!!! there were alot of plates served that night and 4 posts where dinner was served!! people talked about the wedding for days in the town and it also touched them that it was foreigners serving them and that the mozambicans were all special invites and were given the same food as everyone. so it was a really testimony.