This is the day that our team returned from the bush-bush to the Iris base. We’d been travelling for about 7 hours when we came upon a serious crash, a HUGE semi-trailer, turned over and one man seemingly dead inside the cabin and one man still alive but trapped as his leg was tightly stuck in the door frame. His leg was visible on the outside of the door as he lay on his stomach in the inside of the tractor trailer. We stayed there for 45 min in all. After the initial 15 minutes, our driver wanted to leave the scene and go back to the base.
Within 5-10 min of praying for the man, and translating words of encouragement and support to him, we began to see the man pull himself completely inside the cabin, moving more freely, becoming completely loose from the trapped door over his leg. I am convinced that this is a miracle of our Father for this man’s life. He actually had a NT Bible in his back pocket as the officer was looking for his identity. One of our team members is a paramedic so she took responsibility to strap him to one of our wooden boards from the truck and we drove this man to the hospital in Pemba. Our team was singing praises to God and praying from the moment we arrived on this scene until our complete arrival on the Iris base. It was a powerful act of God for this man’s life.
I saw a young girl (Fatima) stepped into a very difficult and potentially traumatic situation, just because her heart was in agreement with my heart, we were burning inside to know if the man knew Jesus…since we did not know if this person was near death at that point. I was SOOOO proud of her! I saw a whole team (of strangers from many different nations) powerfully come together in unity, in prayer, for God’s power to show up in this tragedy. I saw a mighty church in the back of a truck, sharing food and songs of praises just moments after a distressful event that gave us all a taste of survival. I was humbled to be a vessel of His boldness and love, that day in the bush of Mozambique. ~Manon