So, its about time I write a blog about China 🙂
Our month there was not filled with an incredible amount of
ministry, but it was full of a whole lot of testimony. We were in the Northern
city of Xining, in an area that used to be a part of Tibet. While there I got a
unique opportunity to learn a lot about the Tibetan people, as well as their
plight, culture, and religion.
Tibetan Buddhism is one of the most demonized religions I
have ever heard of, and because of that the whole area has a heavily dark
spiritual climate. Their form of Buddhism mixes traditional Buddhism with their
ancient religion. According to their religious history, they believe that the
Tibetan people were birthed from the sexual intercourse from a fallen angel and
a demoness, and because of that belief they worship many idols and supposed
deities, which are nothing more than glorified demons.
All of that is a lot to take in, and can have the
possibility to damper a person’s hope for the Tibetan people. But the most
important thing to remember is that God is bigger than any false belief, and
the Tibetan people are His beloved, His creation.
I knew before getting there and knowing the extent of
darkness in that area, that my team and I would be going into one of the
darkest spiritual climates we’ve experienced yet, but I never would have dreamt
that I would leave there with more hope for a region than I have felt before.
While there, we had no real ministerial plan. We just knew
that we would be praying a whole lot. But within a week we began to have some
amazing divine appointments happen which shaped our month. First we met a
couple who run an English café there and had the blessed opportunity to
fellowship with them, and hear testimony after testimony of God’s purpose for
their lives and working in China. Then we started going to the English café
twice a week and got to meet and practice English with the Chinese and Tibetan
students there, getting a unique opportunity to build friendship and get an
intimate view of the dynamics of that area.
Then while we were there we met two girls, who are now very
good friends, there doing missionary work as well, and spent our month
fellowshipping with them and be encouraged as we encouraged them. They do not
get to be around many other Christians their age while in China, so it was a
blessing getting to be a breath of fresh air for them, and being so encouraged
by God’s movement in that place through them.
We even got to hang out with their leaders, an amazing
married couple living there indefinitely with their children, who God has
purposed an amazing outreach to the Tibetan people through. Being around all of
them, and getting to hear about the plans the Lord has for that place, and the
Tibetan people was such an amazing encouragement for me, and granted me such an
immense hope for them.
I know that this is a pretty vague blog, but I can’t really
give too many details. I can however urge you to pray, having given more than
enough to pray for. Please pray for the Tibetan people, of whom there are NO
Christians, and who have never had missionaries there, and are a largely
isolated, and nomadic people. Please pray for the people there, in China, just
on the border of what remains of Tibet, who the Lord has called there for such
a great purpose. Please pray over the land, pray over the hearts of the people, pray against the
bondage that has generationally held these people to a false belief. Please
pray for the spiritual freedom of Tibet.
