October 2010 Simona Caba
2 hours after he came with help. With lots of hatred and anger
Dearest family and friends,
When you are invited to walk with Jesus, every day turns in a
beautiful adventure which makes it worthier to be told. So,
having so much to say and being so hard to express I will say
that through this newsletter I will do my best to let you know
what happened in the last two months. Don’t forget that you
are a great and essential part in God’s amazing plan to bring
His Kingdom on this earth. God is preparing His bride for His
son in these days. It is so amazing that we are living these days;
that we are getting ready to see our bridegroom coming. I
cannot wait for you to meet your brothers and sisters from
Africa. It will be such a celebration! These last 2 months I have
been traveling all over Mozambique and there are more marks
of God’s love in my life than before.
Magiga
One village where few years ago there was no Christian and no
church. The “imam” – muslim leader of the village is very
strong in his belief, training and teaching his many children to
serve Allah and follow his example for them to lead the
mosque in the future. But God had another plan. His older
children went to another city where they were exposed to the
Gospel and receive Jesus in their lives. Jamilo, one of them
came back to his home village. Julinho, one of the youngest
brothers was his father right hand: helping him at the mosque
and very open to witchcraft. He was going to be the spiritual
leader of that community. All the men from the family are
radical muslims so they tried Julinho to stop him becoming a
christian. But God’s grace carried him through all the
persecution and 2 years after he came to the Bible School. God
started to work in his life, changing his character and wiping
away everything he was carrying from his old life. Now he is
20 years old and he is one of the leaders of the new church in
Magiga.
The new church meets in a grass
small building and the young men
that are coming are Julinho’s
friends mostly: coming from
muslim background and facing a
lot of persecution. One afternoon
one little girl (around 9 years old)
received a very heavy slap from
her father while we were
teaching. In seconds she was
running away, while her father
was screaming and threatening us.
Afrika Wa Yesu – Inhaminga, Mozambique
they started again to threaten us with the promise to destroy
the church, saying that they wanted actually to bring the little
girl there and kill her in front of us. They call themselves
“great worriers and messengers of Allah”. In this case all we
could do was to pray in silence and come against this opposing
spirit while they were speaking and when was our turn to
speak we showed no fear but also calm and authority. We are
fighters too, but not against flesh but against the principality
and spiritual stronghold over this village. They left but next
day while we were sharing about Jesus in the market, they
were there to oppose us, determined to don’t let anyone to hear
about Jesus. But what they wanted to do for bad God turned it
for our good. For our surprise, many people started to come
against every argument these radical muslims were bringing.
That was a great testimony in all village. The same day, we
had a big crowd of people coming to watch Jesus film, being
exposed to the Gospel for the first time. At the end of the day a
man came to our camp asking to know more about Jesus. He
was part of the crowd in the market that day.
We had around 40
that came for the
“Youth Conference”.
Our theme was:
“Preparing the bride
for Jesus ‘second
coming”. Their
hunger brought out
the Word of God.
We saw the great
need of a Christian
married couple that
would take that community to know Jesus. Again we came to
the same conclusion: The harvest is great but the workers are
few. We need a new strategy to hold the harvest, give people
courage to follow Jesus in spite of the persecution and shame.
One family - majority ladies wanted to be taught more of Jesus
but there is not even one Christian lady that can help in this
area. What we have there is a group of young men that through
their amazing testimonies are bringing their friends to Jesus.
In this trip I was thinking again for an alternative in order to
stop the ‘initiation ceremony’ for the children in these strong
tribes: when the boys are circumcised and the girls are initiated
in a demonic way into sexual life. A young man or girl that
never went through this ceremony is never accepted in the
community. We talked with the young men that passed
through this but now they are healed and redeemed by the
blood of Jesus and we realized that we need to create an
alternative in the church for this. To have like a training camp
separate for the girls, separate for the boys where we can teach
and train them in a biblical way how to become strong men
and women in the community.
In Ratata we went for our 2 last days before leaving. Pedro, a
graduated of AWY this year was asking us to come to his
place and show the “Jesus film”. When we got there his house church in Nando’s
was full with people that heard about our coming. It was the home. Liucue is a
first time in my life when at the altar call at the end of “Jesus beautiful small
film” we saw everybody standing up coming in front asking for village with around
prayer. Not knowing I asked if they came for prayer for healing 200 people. At night
but they answered: No, we need healing for our lost souls! majority of them
What a need and what a desire to stay there longer. We set a came and were
connection with the young church from Magiga, asking them to exposed to the
come and help this community. It is not us - it is the Holy Spirit Gospel for the first
that is preparing their hearts with this hunger. But the hunger time through Jesus
needs to be found and alimented with Jesus. How they can hear film. The group of men that decided to receive Jesus was
if nobody tells them? How someone tells if is not send? determinant to meet that night and start to study the Word of
We trust Holy Spirit who is responsible for all this awakening God. We couldn’t stay as we wanted to return to Macomia that
and for all that follows after. And we are ready to move with night. Another place where we went was Mucheva, 7 km from
Him! Ready to surrender! Ready to pour out our lives again for Macomia village. The people living there are muani tribe but
His Glory! traditionally changed into macua tribe. All of them are
Macomia muslims but amazing how even there we saw the hunger and
Is a place where we always desire to know Jesus. Our guides were muslims but at the end
want to come back. One of of the day they understood the message of salvation so well
reasons for me personally is that they were able to transmitted alone to their neighbors.
because of the youth from They wanted to know Jesus, the true prophet who can heal any
those places which are in my illness. Many of them were asking for prayer or bring their
prayers for more than 2 children to pray for them. God is so good and faithful!
years. We want to see the Ribawe
church arise and take a Even it was for a very short time, I
stand in justice and enjoyed this trip as much as the
righteousness for this generation to live free from all the other ones. We were blessed to
traditional strongholds. For this trip I stepped back and let have a visit of Pastor Ilie from
Abdul and Josias to lead and take responsibility for the Chicago that came specifically for
whole team. It was great to see them serving in authority and the church dedication. He is from
if was any mistake it turned out in a powerful lesson when a Romanian Church that supports
they were teachable. We had a youth conference and lots of me financially and spiritually for
time for evangelism. We visit huts around the church but few years and now they were able
also we went to 2 different places. One of the places was to help and finance the
Liucue – 20 km from Macomia village. It was an amazing construction of the building
experience for all of us, very similar with what happened in church in Ribawe. He was
Ratata. The small village is populated by maconde tribe. coordinating with Pastor Armando
And the Gospel wasn’t preached there before. There is no real for almost a year and now was the time of celebration of the
road to get there and the place is full with elephants, so our trip hard work from both sides. It is always such a blessing to
there was an adventure. The first night when we were coming travel and work with Pastor Armando. Pastor Ilie just enjoyed
back after showing Jesus film we saw 2 elephants very close to and marveled of the mighty men of God we are blessed to have
our car. Some of us just heard them. God is so good! He is here in Mozambique. Pastor Jose from Ribawe church is also a
giving the desire of our hearts many times when we don’t even great example of dedication and true heart for God. In few
expect! ☺ months the church there just grew spiritually, not only in the
That first day when we visit there people were so amazed, they village but in 4 more new areas.
couldn’t believe that someone cares for them, that God is real We are all so grateful to “Philadelphia Church” from Chicago,
and cares about them. Some of the people were ready to burn “Genesis Mission” and personally to Pastor Ilie that are such a
their witchcrafts. Nando and Benito are 2 young men that blessing, being part of God’s amazing plan of salvation for this
followed us even to Macomia for 4 days of the conference. Our nation. After a very long trip, there was no time to rest but to
last Sunday we went back there and started a home group travel, minister, preach, pray, sleep in a tent and again travel,
preach and minister for our guest. For 10 days we never heard
a complain, but we were blessed to have him always ready to
serve, run with us and when see the need always give with so
much care. Thank you Pastor Ilie! Thank every one of you my
friends, brothers and sisters, thank you for your love and
faithfulness!
Together for His glory,
Simona Caba

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