Like I said in my last post, we started SMITE on Monday. The students have been wonderful listeners and are very eager to learn. It is
amazing how enthusiastic every student is when doing anything in the club. In America, we have to drag teens out of their shell or pride to get them to do the simplest task in a club. However, in Nigeria they all want to help, and they put everything they have into it every time.
The Bible college students have been doing the Demonstration of a Bible club every day for the camp, and with the exception of some tweaking
here and there, they are doing an amazing job. When we hold SMITE in Louisiana every year, we choose only people who have been at SMITE for 4 years or more and are usually graduates or are graduating that year. Even then, some of them could not hold a candle to how well these students have been performing in their demo. Oh…did I mention that this is only the second year that they have even been introduced to the concepts of teaching like this. I think it has something to do with the “want-to and get-to” factor.
I have really enjoyed teaching every day. I am teaching all of the classes for level 1. We have three classes per day and then a demo. After the demo, we break for lunch and study time, followed by clubs at 2:30. The preaching services have been great and the altar calls have been even
better. I don’t remember the last time I saw an altar call where more people were at the altar than in the pews…by far. I am preaching tonight and Friday night, and I will also be preaching in two different churches on Sunday.
Please continue to pray that God will work. Bro. McGuffee and I are praying that this week God will call some Nigerian’s to be missionaries to areas in Africa that no American (much less a white person) would be allowed to enter. Pray that they will set their country on fire with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Bro. McGuffee and I both have had an amazing blessing on top of it all this week. On Monday at my club, none of the children raised the hand for salvation in the invitation, but a mother a the back did. I went to her afterward and spoke to her about why she raised her hand. She said “I need to ask Jesus to forgive my sins”. She prayed and got saved! And to top it all off, I found out she was a Muslim. Praise God. Today Bro. McGuffee had a teenage Muslim girl in full burka accept Christ as her Saviour. When they spoke to her afterward, she said “I got saved, and I am proud”. God has blessed us beyond our wildest dreams already…and it is only Wednesday! Amen!!!
More to come…
In the service of the KING,
Pastor Jared Decker
