Sharing the Good News: Creation to Christ

For the 2nd time this year, First Baptist Church of Bryan Texas has sent a volunteer group to work in the Mberengwa area in Southern Zimbabwe. They worked along side national pastors and lay-leaders sharing the Good News.



Mr. S. has experienced God's mighty and miraculous hand at work in the lives of his son-in-law (bringing him back to life) and his son (ridding him of a strange type of paralysis in his body). Mr. S. received Christ when the team came to his village in March of this year. (His picture is the 4th on April 27 blog - Baptism in Mberengwa.) When he heard that the volunteers were coming back to start a church in a neighboring area about 8 kilometers from his own, he walked over and spent the week with them sharing his own testimonies of God's power and grace!



The volunteers came equipped to use the Creation to Christ witnessing presentation and the people in the villages were deeply touched. In some areas people who had heard the story went with the volunteers to the next village so they could hear the story again! One lady who was a Christian testified that she had never witnessed to anyone else and she was thankful that these volunteers showed her that she should also be out telling people the Good News. She joined the group and went with them to witness to her neighbors.

One team met a young lady who was trying to sell tomatoes to a neighbor. The neighbor lady was out trying to find her cows so the tomato seller was waiting for her to come home. In the meantime the team shared Creation to Christ with the tomato seller and she came to know the LORD! Praise God for working it all out in his perfect timing!



During 4 short days many people came to know Christ and discipleship classes were offered to new Christians in the afternoon. There was a class for men, another for women, and a third for young people. Youth pastor Randy Biddlecombe shared with the young people how to follow Christ and included a lesson on sexual purity as well.



There are others however, who continue to cling to the old ways and beliefs. Pray that God’s power and light will become very real to them and they also will come to a personal relationship with God, through Jesus Christ.