Mission Moroto Stories: The 800

Mission Moroto Stories: The 800

In the spring of 2023, we had been blessed to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to many formerly unreached villages north of the mission. The villagers began telling us wonderful stories of what Jesus was doing to their villages. Stories like, “We have been fighting with this other village for years but now we have laid down our weapons.” Stories like, “We now take up an offering on Sunday and give to the sick and poorest of our members.” Stories like, “We prayed for rain and/or healing and Jesus answered!” We were stunned and thrilled at how Jesus was working. We finished our large church building at Mission Moroto and to celebrate the opening we had an all-night prayer meeting the weekend of Easter 2023. At the prayer meeting the grandmoms and grandpapas started asking if they could get baptized. Rebekah scheduled a 3-day revival meeting at our church so Papa Matthew and the team could preach and make sure everyone understood the gospel clearly and understood baptism clearly. To our great surprise and praise to God over 1200 villagers showed up on June 9, 2023. We sang and danced and preached and testified and ate together day and night for 3 days. It was a preview of heaven for sure. On Sunday June 11, 2023 we began hauling the new believers requesting baptism to the river. We stood on the bank of the river as the people all together professed their faith in Christ aloud and then Papa Matthew, Rebekah, and several of our indigenous pastors began baptizing. This went on all day and at the end of the day we calculated that we had baptized about 800 new believers! Only Jesus can move people like that. Only our God can perform miracles like that and we praise Him. Since then, we have been blessed to baptize over 900 more but we’ve never had another single day like the day of The 800. www.missionmoroto.org #missionmorotostories