Well, here I am in the centre of Africa!

Would you believe that this morning I awoke to sound of drums beating out a message of war? This is not unusual here as we battle savage natives nearly every day as we make our way to those in need. Half of our team are sick with dysentry and yesterday we buried a pastor who was mauled by a lion. Today we enter into the mosquito infested area of central Congo. Our major dangers will come from the many poisonous snakes that abound in this area. We are told that it is only three weeks more trekking through thick jungle and crocodile inhabited swamps before we reach our destination.

Not exactly true. However the truth is that if I was here as an early missionary it would have been something like that. Praise the Lord things have changed. Now it is the sounds of machines from a building site outside our hotel window that awake us and  thick smog, diabolical roads, crazy drivers and showers that fail to work that challenge our faith.

The ministry has been going well. We have just completed a two day conference at the university which from all reports was very successful. We are seeing numbers of healings as a result of words of knowledge. Hopefully I will get some written testimonies. Spoke at a large church yesterday. The meeting went from 8.00am till 12.30pm!

Today is a free day. It is actually Congo’s Independence Day. I believe that we are going to do some sight-seeing.

Hope all is going well at Liberty. I miss you all but I know I am where I am supposed to be. Thanks for the prayer support. It has been great to know I am covered! I have been well and all is good in Kinshasa.

Blessings from Congo,

Richard