From Jessica & Randi

31/January/2007 04:07 Filed in: Updates from HG students

Dear Lesley-Anne,

We hope that The Holy Given Brazil is going amazing and that the Holy Spirit is moving beyond belief!

Randi and I are in Tanzania now. We arrived in Dar Es Salaam not knowing where we would stay and God worked two miracles at once: They would not give us a visa because we did not have a plane ticket back to America, but when we talked to them in Swahili, they openly gave us a three month multiple entry visa! And a family welcomed us into their house for us to live with them.

The next day we were invited to the largest Tanzania Assemblies of God church in the nation and the pastor invited us to preach on friday and sunday to over 3000 people. Randi preached on Friday on Having the heart of Jesus and the Holy Spirit showed up in ways we did not expect. He had us plastered to the floor together just getting hit for about an hour.

On sunday, I preached two services in my new african outfit. I looked so funny. God told us to get on our knees and just ask Him to come until He did. I preached on giving our lives away. I really feel like the Called to the altar message that we had in HG Pemba really has been in us, and we called for people to give their lives away. The Holy Spirit showed up so strongly that I was stunned, I almost did not know what to do and we loved it. During the second service, we got down and asked Him to come again and I could not get off the floor to preach. He just ministered to people all over the large church. The pastor was not sure of us when he met us and invited us. He said he was expecting old people who had raised the dead ha :o) At the end, after he was on the floor for hours, he pointed at us and said, you have been sent by God to east africa! God ministered to us just as much as everyone else!

We don't know how to explain what happened. We still are stunned by how God moved. something huge has changed in us and the way we preach and minister and pray is different. We received more than we knew at HG pemba.

We have schedules to minister in about 5 countries now and felt God telling us to stay in Africa until He tells us to go somewhere else or back to america.

We don't know what to say but we are amazed. Thank you for everything you did for us and for all you poured into us. God has really put you on our hearts lately and we have been praying. Hope that He is visiting you in new and crazy ways even on your own.

We miss you and Have a great time in brazil!
-Jessica and randi