Pastor Mboi -- Taking the Gospel to the Uttermost Parts

Margaret Hull writes:

Oct. 22, 2008 Wednesday
This was a less hectic day than the several previous. We did Hand to Hand school visits again, as we had done on Monday and Tuesday. Laura and I went to one (Cattin, CAR-Lititz, PA GBCs' School) and Barb and Lois to another (Cite de la Paix, CAR-Marysville, Ohio GBCs' school).

Laura and I were able to help the teacher Elizabeth with an alphabet game to help the children learn the letters. They were wild to be chosen to identify a letter and stand in front of the class, displaying the letter.

We were back to the mission by 10:30 and there was a station full (slight exaggeration!) of people waiting to see us. I was very happy to reconnect with the family of Marthe, the young woman I worked with in the Boguila-Paoua area in girls’ work. She had leprosy and I assumed she was dead because of the news we had heard of the destruction by bandits in that area. But I learned that she is alive and well and is being well cared for by a niece who has a position high in the government. That was such happy news for me.

Mboi Pierre, Evangelist par Excellence, was also here and I got in on the tail end of his visit with Lois. He and Lois worked together at Bata and he was her pastor there for about five years. Sometime later he moved over to the eastern part of CAR, to Bambari. He told me that he has four centers of evangelists and he travels to these centers, which are very wide-spread, reaching almost to the Sudan both east and north east. He does a circuit twice a year, teaching these evangelists. He told me that the fire still burns in his heart to spread the gospel to those who have never heard.

Pastor Mboi will be having surgery tomorrow and the surgeon will reset his right wrist and reset it, and put it in a cast. The bones had healed in the wrong position. During these two days he has been in Bangui preparing for surgery, he has read again Acts and Romans, and said his heart was challenged again to the task before him.