We’ve been having one-on-ones with the people we are looking at as potential leaders of DRIME Benin. We have had 4 and we have 2 more this week! It is so fun to open up our home and get to know people here! And it makes me feel less like a stranger in this city because I’m making friends! I am so glad that God is picking the leaders and will just reveal them to us because it is gonna be difficult to do!! They are all great people and would be a great asset to the team! But I know God has the perfect team in mind and that is very reassuring!!
On Monday n
ight, we had our first ministry opportunity!! Campus Crusade for Christ Benin was having an evangelistic event and asked us if we would come perform. They were showing the Jesus Film and then they wanted us to do a 15 minute performance. So we grabbed two people from the team here and performed In the Light and Ragman. It was definitely not a typical DRIME special event like in Canada and it was definitely stretching! We arrived half way through the event because we got caught in crazy traffic; the sound person played the wrong song a few times; and the event was held outside at night with only the light of a projector so people couldn’t see us very clearly. But no one cared that these things went wrong – people just acted like this was all normal so we just went with it! And it did go well – I introduced us and the dramas at the beginning and then Janna shared a story from her life in between the two dramas we performed. We were really well received and we even had a few people come up to us afterwards that wanted to join the team!On Tuesday night,
there was a humongous thunderstorm!!! We were all journaling and then all of a sudden heard a noise. We looked outside and it was raining heavily – the rain was literally a thick sheet! And lightning and thunder filled the sky! When it stopped raining, we ran up to the roof to watch the lightning. It was soooo cool – the lightning lit up the entire sky and when the clouds cleared we could see actual bolts of lightning! Jamie got some of it on video. And there were a few times when the thunder was sooo loud – we all jumped! We went back inside when it started to rain. But then the lightning and thunder got even more intense and we couldn’t see it from our porch, so we faced the extreme rain and ran back out onto the roof. Needless to say, we were completely soaked and dripping after like one minute! But it was sooo fun and totally worth it!!!On Wednesday night, we had an extra practice with the team because the church we attend is putting on an evangelism event this weekend and asked the team to be a part of it. We weren’t leading it but we wanted to go and practice with them and help in any way we could! They did have us teach a bit and watch dramas to correct any mistakes, but it was also lots of fun to just practice with and be a part of the team! They definitely love being a part of this ministry and it was great to share in that with them! And I am getting better with using my French – I realized that my mouth is not able to form French sentences as quickly as my mind can think of them! So I just force myself to slow down and then I don’t get tongue-tied! Ha! The event this weekend is Friday through Sunday and we are performing every day, so it will be busy but I’m really excited about it!! I’ll definitely tell you how it went when I blog next week!!
Here are some prayer requests we have after this week:
o Continued physical and spiritual health and safety (as always)
o Continued peace and direction as we continue this process of getting to know potential leaders
o That the evangelism event this weekend goes well and lots of people hear the Gospel! And also that the DRIME team’s part goes well and there are no problems.
o Praise God that I’m getting more confident with using French and please pray that I would get really comfortable and be able to speak French all the time!
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