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2007 African Missions Trip By Pastor Harold Germain
Our mission started in the airport in Dakar, Senegal days before we arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, which was the first leg of our mission. Our airplane’s hydraulic system was in need of repair and so we were delayed for a day and a half along with 250 other weary travelers. God saw this as an opportunity for my wife and I to minister to a young woman from New York. She was so distraught by the delay that she started screaming that she was a terrorist and if they didn’t get her on a plane she would blow up the airport. We quickly let her know the danger she was putting herself in, at which time she broke down and told us all she had been through at home. God moved and she heard what God was saying through us and received deliverance. When we arrived in Johannesburg in route to Cape Town we realized that our luggage was still in Dakar and would not catch up with us until Sunday. Minister Mollie was scheduled to teach a workshop for her latest book, “Mending Fences” and had no clothes. But praise God, our host pastor’s wife, was at our hotel early the next morning and took us shopping for everything we would need. The conference was a huge success. The women feasted on the Word that was taught and now have a better understanding of relationships. Sunday, I, taught a morning service at New Life Worship Centre in Cape Town, pastured by Lisulo Lisulo and his wife Linda. My wife, Minister Mollie while sharing about the six books she wrote spoke of the very thing Pastor Linda had been praying to God to reveal to her. Minister Mollie while talking about “The Wilderness Experience” spoke of how sometimes we think that it is Satan and all the while it is God testing us. This was the answer Linda needed to set her free. This young couple have been pastoring for two years and God has blessed them with a very young and sizable congregation and most of them are former Muslims. My message was “What Faith Is”. The Pastor said that message was exactly what his people needed to hear. Sunday evening we went to the five o’clock service at Pastor Stafford Petersen’s church, Shekinah Full Gospel Church of God. I preached my message was, “Our Position in Christ” . At the end of the message, four people received Jesus as their Lord and personal Savior. Pastor Petersen has a very effective feeding program for the people in the impoverished areas of Cape Town who have not received housing from the government yet. Mollie Germain Ministries was led to sow a generous seed into this effort so that these people will have a well fed Christmas. On Monday, Nov. 12, 2007 we were taken to the Cape Town International Airport for our flight to Johannesburg and from there to Kampala, Uganda, the third country on our mission trip to Africa. We were there to be the main speakers for a Pastor’s Conference in Mukono, Uganda. The conference was coordinated by Pastor John K Tumwine and the theme was, “Consultation on Church, Mission and Ministry Challenges Today.” My topic “Excellence in Ministry” outlined and answered the question, “What is the mission of the church today?” There was an extensive question and answer period. We started these sessions each day at 8:30 AM and did not conclude until 9 or 9:30 PM with tea breaks and meals in between. Minister Mollie spoke on “Building a Life of Obedience” and “Iron Sharpens Iron”. My wife was humbled by the response, but also after spending time with the women at the conference and observing the women in the fields and outside of their homes as we traveled to and fro, her heart went out to the women of Uganda. They don’t usually live much past the age of 45 to 48 years because they lead such hard lives. Everything that they do they must bend from the waist down. They cook outside their huts on stones on the ground. They work in the fields to grow food for their families and work the ground bending down. They sweep their homes, not with brooms with handles like we do, but with merely the bristles from the twigs bending down. When asked why they don’t bend their knees, she was told that they are taught to bend from the waist because their knees would not be able to handle all of the bending and would give out before they were twenty-five years old. She told me that her heart aches for those women carrying their babies on their backs and bending over to care for their families. And when they stand erect, she notices that they are even carrying another in their belly. Minister Mollie sees such a need for these women to understand the righteousness of God and how they are loved by Him. She has been asked to return to do a women’s conference and she knows that through knowledge and understanding comes freedom. The Archbishop was in attendance at one of her sessions and he enjoyed the teaching and made quite a few comments about it. I had an opportunity to teach on the baptism of the Holy Spirit because there were so many who wanted to know more about this gift. After I finished teaching I demonstrated how we get filled, I extended the invitation for those who would like to be filled with the evidence of speaking in other tongues to come forth and a long line formed. Many received the gift of the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues. It was quite a climatic ending to a very enlightened conference. That Sunday I preached two services at one of the largest Anglican churches in Kampala, St. Stephen’s Kisugu Church of Uganda. The first service was lead in English, but the second was in Ugandian, so I needed an interpreter so that the people would understand what I was saying. They have over 1,000 members and the gospel was very well received. Not only were the people blessed through the Word, but we financially supported the pastors’ in Uganda and surrounding countries to be able to attend the conference. Invitations to come back are pouring in. We need your help. God says in His Word to “Go ye”. We realize that everyone can’t go. Some people are “goers” and some “senders”. Senders we need you to partner with Mollie Germain Ministries, so that we can continue to go and “…teach all nations.”
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