In Mwea Kerinyanga county we had an open air meeting with Oasis of Love Ndindiruka Church. We went to the Market called Soko Mujinga meaning ‘market of fools’. The village where the market is situated is called W* meaning ‘Witches village’. We went near one of the shops and asked the owner for permission to hold the open air near his shop. He agreed. Around 60 people gathered to listen to the Gospel.
After 10 minutes of our open air meeting, the rain came from nowhere and people started running away from the meeting. About half of the crowd remained and they went and stood on the verandah of the shop. We pushed the sketchboard near to them. We remained in the rain and continued with the programme praying in our hearts for the rain to stop. After 5 minutes the rain stopped and at the end of the programme 7 people responded to the invitation and 26 people were counselled.
The pastor and the church leaders were very excited to see the attendance of people. This kind of response they have never experienced before during their evangelistic campaign of conducting crusades. They said, ‘God has answered their prayers to find the tool to be use in evangelism’.
Emmanuel