Intense Two Weeks

Exhausting. Exhilarating. Overwhelming. Amazing!
Those are just four words that would describe these past two weeks. As some of you know I was busy helping host a team of 27 Americans with ministry in one of the townships called Masi. And it definitely fit each one of those words.
It was a solid two weeks of going non-stop. With the exception of three days we were in Masi from 10am till 4-5pm. The team was split into teams of 3-4 which I would join in with. We spent our time walking around the wetlands of Masi. The wetlands are the unofficial squatter camps of that area. The poorest live there in shacks no bigger and sometimes smaller than your bedroom.
Each team had their area of it that they would walk around meeting people. Yes, it sounds like door to door evangelism, which they do here, but for us it was different. From the very beginning the Holy Spirit was with us and we could feel it. We immediately found people that were open to us and others in great need open to prayer. As tired as we got, we saw miracles happening everyday. People who hadn’t had jobs in months were getting two jobs in a week and others that had been kept from getting jobs from their sicknesses were healed. My favorite stories were of the people that received healing and then would be so excited they would then lead us all over the wetlands to pray for family members and friends. We were always being drawn out of our comfort zone. Such as one day we began the day with worship and prayer as normal but continued it for six hours! During that time we walked to two different houses on opposite sides of Masi to pray for families that the team had met. All the time carrying guitars and singing as we went. It was quite the scene that none of us had ever seen before but it also had effects that none of us had seen before either. So many people came to us with questions, requests that we make a stop to pray for them as well, and many were touched by Jesus. It was a day none of us will forget and definitely one that was not of our idea.