Pastors-Personal Narrative

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I’m doing great! God is moving, and I’m loving it ! The people here are so precious, and I feel very much at home and comfortable here. Pastor Bori’s wife is still in the Solomons (because she is from the Solomon Islands) and so she met me at the airport when I arrived on Saturday, May 26, with the senior pastor and his wife, the associate pastor, and the couple that I stayed with for the night. When I got off the plane, they put a beautiful floral lei of sweet smelling flowers around my neck. Saturday evening, there was a food fellowship at an elder’s house so the pastors and elders could meet me. Sunday morning, May 27, I preached in Honiara about the anointing, and they richly welcomed me. At four in the afternoon, the senior pastor’s …show more content…

She will stay with me in the village for two or three weeks until I am settled, and she knows that other women are there to take care of me. It was only a twenty- five-minute flight, and we rode in a small twenty-three-passenger plane. Flying over the islands in a small plane reminded me of WWII movies I’ve seen in which they were flying over the Pacific Islands! I know that during WWII they were right here flying over Guadalcanal! When I arrived in Auki, they told me they had been waiting for me for two weeks and asked if I could preach in two hours! Some of the people walked from the other side of the island to come and be in the teaching. Praise God! So I preached again that evening. I will be teaching almost every day and possibly for most of the …show more content…

I found out later in the week that one man coming from another island had to take a canoe for one and a half hours, walk four and a half hours, and then ride for five hours in the back of a pickup for a total of eleven hours to reach the school. Another man had ridden five hours and walked two hours, and another man had walked four hours and ridden six hours to get to the school. Now, when they say they rode for five or six hours, it is not like in America where you can drive 60+ mph and can travel a far distance in five hours. Here, they are usually traveling in the back of a pickup on dirt roads 40 mph, and you nearly stop when you come to the big potholes. So it is a much more difficult journey. There were also others who either walked or rode for an hour or more to get here. During the week Pastor Martin shared things with me as we drove into town a couple times. One time he told me that the Friday before I arrived, they realized God was answering their prayers, and my coming was the start of their Bible school. To confirm this, one day after I taught, Pastor Henry told me they had desired a Bible school for a long time (the Lord spoke to them in February 1996

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