Ethiopia Feb. 2023: God is our protector and our provider

Written By: Nathan Johnson

Wow! God’s greatness and power was shown constantly today! Today started as a normal day. We woke up, ate a great breakfast at our hotel, and had our team meeting.

When we arrived at the village my mom (Erin Johnson, our leader) grouped me up with Nia, Hussein (translator), and Meti (disciplemaker). Which was cool since I hadn’t been with any of them during a village day.

As we entered the first home, there were three people and everyone accepted! We trained two people and one of them wanted to tell his wife, which really showed God in his actions. Also, he was the owner of the second home that we were going to, so we didn’t go to that home.

So, as I went into the second house, I felt that a woman’s heart was saddened and later found out that her husband died. So we shared the evangecube and priceless cube and everyone accepted like the first house! We trained everyone except the kids.

As I sat down in the third house, a kid was very interested in my notebook, so he wrote seven letters down in English. As soon as Nia started saying the priceless cube, him and all of the other kids sat down in front of Nia. These kids were watching so intently and it was amazing to watch them listen to these messages. I also went over to the kids to sit next to them and one kid quickly went out just to get me a box for me to sit on which was really nice. At the end everyone accepted (including the kids!) and we trained all eight people! We asked them if we could pray about anything and we found out that the woman’s head and legs hurt, so we prayed for her.

When we arrived at the last place there was this huge tree and I just felt very uncomfortable and weird. So this guy walks out and we found out that he was a witch doctor (worships Satan). He said we could tell him the messages but the translator told us that he was also drunk and we shouldn’t. But a really sad part was there were three children that were looking at us the whole time and it was clear they were with the witch doctor.

So after this we were walking back when a guy that was walking with us wanted to hear the gospel and he accepted!!

This day was a really empowering day and it was so amazing! This trip I really wanted to train people how to shared the gospel and I loved going with Nia, Hussein, and Meti! A really cool part of this trip was also Hussein’s testimony and how he shows God through his actions (see more in Nia’s post). Also, today we had some of the people have friend’s children being human trafficked which was very sad to hear.

Even though this is the last day of evangelizing in the villages it won’t be the last day of evangelizing to people from all over the world. Ciao!