Testimonials

ICM in Tanzania

Donors Mark and Sarah Fanning discuss their experience on an ICM vision trip in Tanzania.

Mark Fanning
While on the vision trip, we met a pastor named Simon. He was sharing his ministry with us and he mentioned that he had been a witch doctor before he came to Christ, and had been in the process of graduating up the ladder in that. He told us that there was a point in which he sacrificed his first born son, in “order to strengthen his own power as a witch doctor”. I can’t imagine the pain he went through once he did accept Christ, and realized what he had done.

I was thinking about that this morning. It struck me that he now has a testimony that helps him relate to what God did for us- the sacrifice God made.

Sarah Fanning:
The main thing that I have seen on this trip is the significance of building Churches. Before I came, people would ask “Why build a church? Why not do something else? A water well, or something else that would be more impactful”. I learned on this trip the importance of the building. It gave the church legitimacy in the community.