While visiting with Pastor Mwita this week he told us about two ladies who received Christ when our volunteer group came a couple of months ago.
One lady was so excited about her new salvation that she kept coming to Pastor asking to be taught more. She joined the classes that Pastor began for the new Christians. During one class her husband showed up. He stood, arms crossed, watching. When the class was over, he grabbed his wife and began hitting her. He yelled at the pastor, "Why are you ruining my wife? She is not at home cooking for me like she should be! Why are you causing trouble?"
The other lady Pastor Mwita told us about is in a similar situation.
Change is not welcome in the village. Any shift in the status quo is a great threat to stability and is resisted strongly. As a social rule, people are not allowed to be different. Different is bad. Church isn't necessarily bad, but it is if it causes real change at home.
Please pray for these two ladies who so obviously desire Christ. Pray that their husbands will have a change of heart and allow their passion for Christ to grow. And pray for all the others that we do not know about - women, men, children - who want to be different but are afraid of challenging the society they live in.
Blessings.
