Each year that God gives me the opportunity to travel to Africa, He seemingly raises one specific issue of prayer in my heart over all others. This year that prayer was that God would raise up godly young men to be leaders in the church.
In my experience planting churches in Africa, not unlike America in this respect, we see many more woman trust Christ than men. This year, God turned the tide!
75% of the people I was privileged to see trust Christ were men! God kept leading me to more and more men to share the gospel with, and they were receptive!
Sometimes, God even works by multiplication instead of simple addition! I was in the cornfields talking with a woman named Joan who was already a believer. She asked if I could pray for her husband who suffered from seizures, so we prayed healing for her husband.
We went on down the road talking to several people. At the end of one encounter with an elderly man, a young man named David walked up. He was very intently listening to the message of the gospel I was sharing with the elderly man. The elderly man did not trust Christ, but David started walking down the road with me. He was Joan’s husband and he is an evangelist.
He invited us into his home to share with him and answer some questions he had. We spent an hour together going through the “You Can Tell It” Evangelism Training Seminar so that he could help train neighbors and friends to share the gospel!
Several days later, another one of our team members ran into 8 men on the road. She asked a diagnostic question to find out where the men where spiritually. 7 were definitely lost. The 8th was David … and he step-by-step, as I had trained him, shared the gospel with the scriptures and illustrations! Our team member didn’t have to do any of the work … David did it for her!
