Well, I had really hoped to update with some pictures this time but my out-in-the-middle-of-the-cane-fields internent won't allow me. (Or it will but it will be agonizingly slow) One picture takes about 6 minutes and I have about a dozen.

We are in our last week of lecture! HURRAY! We have made it to the end and I'm happy to say not barely, but trimphantly! We have been so blessed by this entire endevour and truly seen that God is good. When we lean into Him and trust Him, we can do anything!

We our finishing with a seimnar on prophetic literature. We are doing an overview of all the prophets and studying two a bit more indepth - Daniel and Micah. We've just begun the week but I think it will be really great. We have a Fijian woman speaking which is just awesome! She did a 9 month SBS a while ago here in Fiji - she's now in business but with us for this week to teach.

We had a wonderful weekend - David spoke in a local church we've been going to called All Nations. The pastor there is just a solid man of God named Pastor Jacob. He is very knowledgable about the Bible but very humble and teachable. Dave spoke in church yesterday on influencing the 7 spheres of society - family, education, economy, government, media, arts & entertainment and religion. He said the church focuses so much on pulling people into religion but not going into the different spheres. We want to make everyone missionaries or pastors (this is especially true in Fiji) but what we really need is Godly men and woman in education, media, government etc. We need to preach the gospel but not just to pull people into the church but to influence the world. The Pastor was blown away and said in his 12 years of pastoring he's never heard anyone say that. He asked David and I to come to the church next Saturday and he is gathering all the key pastors and elders in the area so Dave can speak the same message to all of them! We are so excited for this opprotunity. :) God has a lot for the church in Fiji and we're excited to see what He is going to do. What a privilage to be a small part of it!

 

Hey guys...we are finally back in the lovely US of A after and amazing trip to Fiji and the Cook Islands. So much happened. I had you mostly updated on IWT...we heard so many encouraging reports as the tour moved on around Fiji. God moved - people got healed, demons got cast out and 170,000 people got saved through the whole 6 week tour. A couple cool testimonies...
*A Hindu priest on an outer island got saved
*One of the teams preached the gospel in a Hindu school and 300 kids got saved. That night two of the kids that got saved brought their dads to the show and they got saved. One of the fathers was completely blind in one eye and partially blind in the other. The partially blind eye was healed and the fully blind eye got 50% sight back!
*A 14 year old girl - deaf from birth - was able to hear again
...the lame walked, the blind saw and the ears of the deaf were opened. GOD IS AWESOME!

After IWT was finished Dave taught a week in a School of Missions - he taught on the Fear of the Lord. It was so impactful for the students - they were still talking about it when we came back through Fiji two weeks later! It was also really good for David and I to "re-hear" that topic. God really spoke to both of us through that week. I had some cool ministry times with the students. There was one girl in particular that I really had a heart for - really wanted to see God move in her life and bring breakthrough. One of our final nights in Fiji before we left for the Cook islands I got to pray with her. It was one of the most powerful prayer times I've had in awhile - just so felt the presence of God as I prayed, after awhile didn't even know all that I was saying but I knew it was from God.

Here are some pictures from the Cook Islands...











It was an incredible two weeks of teaching. David was anointed - he spoke on Hearing the Voice of God and Relinquishing Your Rights. I think we needed to hear it just as much as everyone. It was so good! The students really responded. The school consisted of two guys staff and three girl students (2 Americans and one German.) I got the amazing privlage of running small groups for two weeks - almost every afternoon. God used that so much in my life and in theirs. He really redeemed my idea of small group and they drew so much from that. The one girl kept saying how much they had needed what David and I brought to the table. It was the best time of ministry together as a team we've had so far. Just seeing eachother operate in our giftings - working those together. By the end of the time we were so close - the whole school cried when we left.

We were so blessed by the whole trip! Thanks to everyone who was apart of it through prayer and financial support - we are SO grateful and truly couldn't do this without any of you. We love you all so much! Be Blessed! Know that every life we touched and got to see God move in in Fiji were touched by you in the way you contributed in sending us to Fiji.


Love, David & Erin