It is amazing the difference one person’s presence can make. You know the feeling. There are those times when a certain person walks in the room and a smile instantly invades your face. There are people who presence instantly alarms you that something is wrong. We are instinctual beings. We have an innate ability to discern the things that surround us.
The people of the tunnel are no different. Today as I entered many were hopeful and thankful that we were there. We were wanted. Others instantly pulled sheets down to cover the entrance to their home. We were not wanted. Either way, we have authority in Christ to enter that place and claim it for his kingdom, which is exactly what we have done. We have pleaded the blood of Jesus over the lives of each and every person there. Though we don’t know everyone’s name, the Father knows each of their hearts, and he calls us to love.
There is one family that we have been called to help. Here is their story:
There is a family that resides in the deepest and darkest part of the Tunnel. Many restrictions abound in the limited space. Neighbors tend to think they are great resources on the family, but their version of informing is gossip. That leaves us to ask God for what is true about this family and what we have seen with our own eyes. The mother is never around. During our first three visits the children were alone and entrusted to the neighbors unwillingly. Jacqueline and John Ray are the first two of the five children that we have met. They fear the very presence of anything unfamiliar. They are left alone, sometimes, for a day or more at a time before the mother returns. These two children of God are 3 and 4 years old. They have older siblings who we have yet to meet. Upon returning to the Tunnel on Saturday we were able to meet the mother, whose name escapes me, and two men who were there with her. They were drinking straight alcohol from a pitcher and asking us for money and for shoes. We quickly informed them that we weren’t just going to give them money and that we were there to help them physically and spiritually and that we would help provide for them the best that we could. The mother is 4 months pregnant and she told us that this will be her sixth child. Both the men and the mother had been drinking. (Pray for a safe pregnancy and for her unborn child’s health.) One of them men had been beaten up because of his drinking. After being there for about twenty minutes the mother asked us if we would adopt her children, Jacqueline and John Ray.
They had asked me in their extremely broken English what time church was on Sundays and if they could go pray. Praise God! There is always hope. Our mission in this next week is to get them connected in some way. I would like to take them to the Cuatro church here in the community this coming Sunday. Pray, pray, pray for these people! These children have hope. These men have hope. This mother has hope. Her unborn child has hope. It is the hope and saving grace of Jesus Christ. We are here to be love to this community, and to be the hands and feet of Jesus. Daily pray for our protection as we enter a place were satan and his demons are hard at work taking captives. God has freed the captives and we are here to let them know that Satan no longer holds the keys to their chains. In fact, there are no chains. There is freedom in Christ!
I am in need of $1605.00 by November 1st in order to stay on the field. There are families like this and children from my last blog who I know the Lord has placed me here to bless and help in His name. I will not be able to communitcate while in China. In order to stay on the field after China I need $2,372 by December 1st.
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