I never dreamed that I would have the opportunity to trek in the Himalayas. I also thought that I would never be sharing the Gospel in the Himalayas. Well I guess that just how God works. Month three in Nepal was one of the wildest/ most beautiful months that I ever could have hoped for. The past two years of my life I have spent at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Among other things, it is notorious for the outdoor life that students and residence get to experience. Since living there I have developed a passion for hiking, climbing, and skiing. Just as the holiday season was approaching, God gave me my fill by putting my team and I in the Himalayas for ten days. Although there weren’t any ski resorts, there is no way I am going to complain about being n the most famous mountain range in the world over missing a bad ski season in Colorado.
Our ministry for those ten days was to show Christian based films to remote mountain villagers. The two World Race teams loaded our tents and gear in our packs that we need for the next ten days. Our Nepali pastors gave us their changes of clothes while they carried the generator and all the necessary equipment to put a movie.
Believe it or not, but in Himalayan villages with less than 100 homes there’s not a ton that goes on after dark. So that meant that our film ministry was pretty much the only thing going on. These villagers were mostly Buddhist. One of the villages we visited only had one believer.
We arrived in most villages in the late after noon and most of the time we would rest for a few hours before getting everything set up for the showings. We would set up camp at one of the believers’ houses and then stay there for a night or two. Every village that we went to had a great turn out come sun down.
Our part of the ministry was to show the movie and then leave. We left it up to the local believers to preach and answer any questions. We were just there to plant seads.
