I'm not a great advert for HotS this week

Another Monday, another 2 hours sat by an open sewer in Kibera, with people milling around going about their daily business. This week a local man decided to clear out the sewer a bit, as it was so blocked that it was preventing anything running down. This entailed raking out clumps of rubbish and sewage, and leaving piles at intervals along the edge of the sewer. It did improve the drainage, certainly, and for a few minutes I was grateful that I was so bunged up with cold that I couldn't effectively smell much!

However, being bunged up with cold isn't a great advert for a Healing ministry. Smiling weakly at people walking by whilst blowing one's nose repeatedly in front of a large sign proclaiming 'Healing' is a little ironic. The team did pray for me, but my nose continued to think it was in training for a marathon.

So, apart from me, we only had 3 takers this week. One mum with her 2 year old daughter who she was taking to a clinic. She had a persistent cough that we prayed for. Another mum came that we know because one of her children is in the TP Mashimoni project. She's a single mum with a lot of problems and issues, and we're fairly certain she's HIV+. She had a bad cough, which may well have been the signs of TB, and she asked for prayer for healing for it. She didn't want prayer for anything else, but if God heals her cough then maybe she'll come back for healing prayer for some of the other problems she experiences.

And the last lady was a repeater from last week. She'd come with her daughter who last week had painful boils on her bottom. we prayed last Monday, and by Friday they had completely disappeared - from memory she'd been suffering with them for a couple of months at least. We were also able to pray about the mum's marriage, as she suspects her husband has been looking elsewhere. It must take quite some courage to open up and admit something like that, and once again, it was a huge privilege to pray for her.

So once again, we have been witnesses to the healing power of the Holy Spirit at work in Kibera. It may not be as dramatic as Peter & John, but God is reaching people at their point of need, and they are acknowledging it as Him. Awesome!