I am living in Lalitpur, Kathmandu for the whole month of August. In this country all 50 people on my route are actually living together in a guesthouse. I am sleeping in the basement with my team of 7. It may sound strange, but I haven’t minded the ice cold bucket showers and squatty potties – which is probably good since that will probably be the norm all year.
We are working with a ministry called TAMI – The Agape Mission International. Reverend Brian, our host, has a beautiful vision for our teams this month. Each morning we begin our day with worship together and have time in amad (dwelling in the presence of the Lord). They encourage us to always have that time with our Father before we go out for ministry. This practice has been so important for me to learn. I will definitely carry this with me, even after I leave Nepal. Afterwards, our teams spread out to different areas of the city.
This week has been full of crowded local transportation, miles of walking through mud in beautiful rice fields, meeting and encouraging many pastors in the area, praying over their churches and interceding for more hearts to be touched by their ministries, visiting and praying for sick children in a hospital, witnessing God’s divine healing in a little boy incredibly sick with Typhoid, precious fellowship with Nepali believers and encouraging their faith in time of struggle, being welcomed in to shelter communities full of earthquakes victims, finding out my taxi driver one afternoon was a Christian and getting to sing worship songs and pray for the salvation of his Hindu brother along the drive, laughing and talking with people in the slums, hiking to the top of a mountain to proclaim freedom over this nation that is less than 1% Christian, sharing God’s word, feeding the hungry, listening to orphans worship and share their hearts of being missionaries here in the villages of Nepal, entering temples and covering them in prayer, meeting a Pakistani refugee and hearing his miraculous testimony, meeting a precious woman from California and being invited over to eat together, divine appointments, amazing connections and answered prayers.
Each morning I wake up without a clue as to what the day will hold. This journey isn’t about a set schedule or having any type of control over the day. It’s about letting go. It’s about trusting the Lord and wherever He leads us even if we don’t understand the journey. It’s about being content in whatever situation we are in. It’s about being willing.
Always love.
