This weekend I led a bible study of the Sunday scripture lessons, and
one of them was the story of Jesus healing the demon possessed man
with a "legion" of demons. As we were talking, it seems that all of
them have seen and knew demon possessed people! They believe it is
frequent here. I was the only one in the room who had not knowingly
seen a demon possessed person in my life! They said that the demon
possessed people do the same thing as the man in Luke 8: no clothes,
no home, can't control them, strange voice, live in the tombs and
superior strength. Amazing! (So I have my eyes peeled to see one,
but no luck yet!)

Sunday took me out to a rural congregation called Soura. It's about
1/2 hour outside town. I went with Rev Ezra Elisama, one of my past
students. There were about 20 people there, 1/2 were children.

The weather is hot and humid during the day, but an evening storm has
been rolling in each night and cooling everything down. I sure
appreciate that!

I have started to make videos of the studnets so you can get to know
them a little. I will show one each week in worship. I told the
students 2-3 minutes would be good; I have one at 5 minutes and
another at 44 seconds! I am not sure how this project is going to
turn out!!

BIG THANK YOU to our muscians for sending over musical instruments as
gifts to the congregations. I had 4 with me last week, and there
were 4 children, so it worked out really nicely. This week I had 4
more, and gave them to the congregation, and the music person (a
drummer) was delighted! Thank you Music department!!