Sunday, November 2, 2008

This is word from Sarah Ollah from Oaxaca. Couldn't say what she says any better

Dear "Body"...
I wanted to take a second and write to you all know that the smoke has lifted a little bit. I will be sending to you all an official update with pictures and more in depth testimonies but here is just a taster.....
Well we were at war from start to finish and then some, almost everything that could go wrong did, the devil tried hard to take us down. Everything from Sound equipment to permission to government grants failed us, but thanks be to the living God ,He never left us for a moment. There were times that some of us were praying like we never prayed before. We have our share of new battle scars, Mercy [Sarah's and Rolan's baby girl] fell out of the bed the day of one of the shows, one of the vans borrowed to us didn't make it to a show, our bus driver got hit in the face, one of the bands coming down got into an accident on the way down and totaled their van, it started to rain and as the the cherry on top our van died the morning of our last show and they say it needs a new motor. And I said that last year Lord streched and strengthened our faith..THIS year was more than i could have ever imagined....every step was one of total blind faith and continues to be for us...
I write all this not to sulk about our scars but to show them off when speaking of our incredibly GREAT God who in despite of all the odds pulled off one of the greatest victories...
We saw the gospel preached to over 5,000 young people, the seed has been sown. Also one of the bands that had won a chance to play with the christian bands got saved and have been with us ever since making friends with our team and coming to church, learning more and getting discipled......we prayed and saw God change the weather and stop the rain 5 different times. One kid got knocked out in the slam and a few guys prayed for him and he was totally healed of all pain...The bands who gave of their time to come and serve were all touched and encouraged in huge ways......
There are so many more awesome testimonies that we are still collecting and we can't wait to share with you all when we get back,

Please continue to pray for us as we all recieved a word that the fight would continue in the personal for all of us... And we feel it, We are seeking the Lord for our van amoung other things and we need to build our team before and after we head back....

Continue to pray for us,
God Bless,
Rolan, Sarah, Mercy and the Warriors Team

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