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| HWEC participants |
NCC, LEADS and Assemblies agree to work together to promote the HWEC reconciliation ministry in Sri Lanka, and select 60 key people to attend another 3-day HWEC. This is the first time all 3 organisations have conducted an event together! This time I am joined by Joseph Nyamutera from Rwanda and Drs Derek & Mary Munday from the UK.
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| Ex-Tamil Tiger |
In spite of several challenges especially related to translation into Tamil and Sinhala, we experience the Holy Spirit doing a deep healing work and there are several moving testimonies at the end. An ex-Tamil Tiger states that he is planning to learn Sinhala so that he can comfort the other side! Someone leading an Inter-faith healing and reconciliation workshop states that this is the first time he has been able to deal with his own wounds. He says his workshops will be different from now on. A lecturer at a Bible College simply says: "I have been healed'.
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| InterFaith seminar facilitator |
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| Repentance time by British |
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| I have been healed! |
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| Tea Plantations |
24 participants are selected to come back in 4 days' time to be trained to conduct the HWEC themselves. In the meantime we visit the Central Highlands and meet people involved in seeking to help the communities living on the Tea Plantations, who have many needs. They are delighted that someone has remembered them.
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| Pastors in Nuwara Eliya, Central Highlands |
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| Commissioning the teams |
This was followed by a 5-day training mainly conducted by Joseph, resulting in forming 4 teams to continue the ministry in Sri Lanka - one in the North, one in the East, one in the Central Highlands and one in Colombo. We commission them in a moving ceremony, where each person is given a candle, to symbolise being light-bearers.
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Roshan Mendis - director of LEADS
who will oversee the teams |
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