Work in South Sudan seems slow to me and my team, but God has been teaching me over and over again that He "is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with everyone, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9)
A woman in a nearby village, Lokuru, named her baby after me. Lokuru is seriously involved in witchcraft, always running to the witchdoctor in sickness and always wearing porcupine quills on her headband for protection. She also has a habit of getting very drunk. God sort of laid her in my lap, because I did not meet her until about two weeks before the baby came, and yet she named her little Nakai after me! I have been praying for her for six months now, and for little Nakai too. That God would free her from drunkenness and demonstrate to her in a way that she understands that His power is much greater than animal body parts and the witchdoctor.
The past two weeks we have begun sharing the Story Cloth with several groups, one being a women's group of the villages around the compound. Lokuru has come twice, has been sober, and has paid very close attention as we tell stories from God's Word. Yesterday, Lokuru came and listened to the stories of Cain and Abel and Noah. Today, she came with us to a different village further out in Lomeyin, and she shared the stories almost word for word with the people in that village!!!
All I can do is step back in awe of God, whose timing is always perfect. I pray that she keeps coming, understanding, and sharing and that one day her eyes will be opened to see that she needs Jesus and that He is waiting for her with wide open arms.
Praise the Lord!!! Lalawa Yesu!!!
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