LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

Thought I dropped a few lines to tell you about the conferece while it’s still fresh!

The Conference is over and it left me with a good feeling.

A word that really stuck in my mind was what Pastor Armando spoke in one of the afternoons.

He spoke about Acts 3, and how the church in Africa has been through the years like that beggar at the gate of the temple, not going into the temple where God’s presence was, because he was crippled. And what cripples the African church is the attitude of looking for alms and financial help from foreigners. He spoke about the importance of the missionary work, but delivered a prophetic call that it is time for the Mozambican church to hear: “Silver and Gold I do not have, but what I do have a give you! In the Name of Jesus, get up and walk!” Noticing that those words alonde didn’t bring the healing. Peter stretched out his right hand and helped the crippled get up! This healing brought the cripple guy into the temple, and everyone glorified God realizing that this was the same man who had been a beggar for so long.
He challenged the pastors to take out the old mentality and get up and walk! The time is coming when they should be the ones giving offering to the missionaries as a thanksgiving for their work.

None of us, missionaries, would ever have had the same effect he had even if we said the same words! I cried most of the preaching, and once again came that feeling: I don’t want to leave Mozambique until I see the prophecy fulfilled! I want to be part of that right extended hand that brings the healing!

Though this was the high point for me, all the other words were SO wonderful! What I love about Dr. Carman’s teaching is that he, step by step, demolishes wrong concepts that form wrong thinking, that results in wrong behavior. Ps. Brandon, who came with them, goes in that same direction. I was challenged in things I already knew but I hadn’t heard in a long time, therefore weren’t as strong in my mind and behavior as before!

But I pray each person that participated won’t forget what they heard… with all those stories and punches, I think they won’t!