Day Ten... Mega Crusade!!! Lives Saved!!!

Wow!!! Words cannot express what all I have experienced today at the Crusade!  I can't wait to share the pictures with you!  We started with church this morning and while Pastor Richard was preaching, I had the opportunity of teaching the children in children's church the song Our God by Chris Tomlin.  There were probably 150-200 kids in there and they caught on and learned the words very fast...they even created movements for the main chorus!  I played the song off my iPhone and I actually sang it into the microphone (for those of you who have heard me sing, you know it was not good but the kids loved it)! They had a great time this morning and I am going to burn that song (plus some more popular praise and worship songs) onto a CD and mail it with copies of the words to Pastor George for them to use in the future.  After church, we marched in a parade lead by the Kenyan Police Band to the main stage for the crusade.  People were coming out of everywhere to see what the music was all about and most of them ending up following us to the crusade and staying to hear the music and preaching!  I don't know the exact number of people who attended (and probably never will) but it was well over the expected 10,000 people!!  When they brought us up on stage to introduce us, I could not believe how many people were there!  We left around 3 to go ea  t lunch (traditional Kenyan food) and when we got back, the crowd was even larger!  They had a lot of local Christian music artist who performed and then Pastor Richard did the preaching.  After he was done, Pastor George gave an alter call and people started coming from all around to be saved.  While I was on stage standing next to Pastor George, God kept telling me I needed to speak so after a while of fighting Him, I gave in and asked for the microphone (I still can't believe I had the courage to do that but it was just God speaking through me).  I told the crowd (remember over 10,000 of them) that although I have a different skin color than they do, God is still the same to me as He is to them.  And that if they don't know Him as their personal Lord and Savior then if they die, they will go to hell because none of us are promised tomorrow.  I also told them to make sure He is always first in their lives and to not leave empty, but to come to the front and get full of God!  It was so awesome and the more I spoke, the more confident I became and the smaller the crowd seemed to me.  I give God all the glory for speaking through me and giving me the courage to step up and spread the gospel!  I don't know the exact number yet of lives saved but I would say it was well over 50!  Praise God!!  You could just feel His presence all over that place!  One man even fell out in the Spirit! 

Be ready to see some pictures when I get home, I think I have almost 8,000 or that is what my camera says!

I hope you had a blessed Lord's day!  Goodnight from Kenya!

Leslie ~ Shiro