Operation Holy Spirit Descending

After transitioning over the weekend and praying about what we should do, we decided start off our time in Port Vila by doing street evangelism for the day. We all split up into groups of two and went all over town: to the market, through the parks, into the shops, by the waterfront, at the bus stop. While walking, we went around evangelizing and praying for people EVERYWHERE! We all came back from our evangelism time feeling blessed and so thankful that we had been sharing God's love all day with others. If nothing else, we had been challenged to step out in boldness and talk to everyone God told us to.

The next day, Abbey was sick from giardia and Hannah stayed behind with her.  The other four healthy members of our team went out to the Teouma Valley (where a YWAM Base called V2Life is located) and to distribute bibles in Bislama (Vanuatu's official language)!  The Bibles were carried in a wheelbarrow and we had a wonderful translator named Ethel with us.  The day was filled with prayer, healing, Jesus, and heaps of Bibles distributed to the locals! The first place we came to was called the Anglican Brotherhood. Several young men live there and have a kind of monastic lifestyle devoted to God and prayer for a few years. We gave them Bibles and prayed for them, then they offered to come with us and help. We weren't sure at first, but they turned out to be really nice, and they helped us cover a lot more ground that day!

The next day, the GO Team was down one more person.  Abbey was still out, Bradley was sick too, and Dan stayed back to watch the two of them.  Although we only had half the team that day, we also had two other local helpers. The people that went out got to give out quite a few bibles and had a good day talking with the locals about Jesus and sharing the Gospel with them.

So many new Bibles!

The following day, we all started off by doing worship at the V2Life YWAM base with our team, a group of people from the YWAM Perth, and a group from YWAM Tonga.  It was so beautiful hearing people singing to God in English, Tongan, French, Swiss, and Bislama all in one place.

 Praise the Lord, everyone was healthy today and we all went out to distribute more Bibles! 

We had all six of us in the group, plus three translators and Cheyne, the DTS leader, with us.  We split up in different groups because we had so many people and we got to pray for heaps of people, hand out more Bibles, and build such good relationships with one family.  Ainsley preached the gospel like a boss with so much boldness, and God was giving everyone supernatural knowledge and prophetic words about the people we were talking to! They invited us to come back next week to lead a church service at their home!  Later, after we had finished, we went home to prepare for our skit that we were doing later in the evening. That night, we went to the University of the South Pacific (five minutes walk from Grace House) to the Christian Fellowship group.  We performed our skit and had an explanation afterwards and then they continued with the rest of their program...and continued...and continued.  It went pretty late because it was almost their last meeting of the year. But it didn't matter too much because we got to experience the amazing love those students have for God and each other, their wonderful culture, and some great praise and worship.  We also got to get to know some of them and build relationships. After all of that...we went to bed at midnight.  There's island time for you =)

Friday we did a prayer walk around the university and prayed for gym and sports fields, housing areas, cafeteria, offices, classrooms, and for a party that was going on that evening.  It was so much fun! In the end, it was a pretty intense week, but God is always faithful and keeps encouraging us and giving us strength. We're so blessed...

~The GO Team