Ministry here looks like a lot of different things, something new each and every day.
We started the month by switching up the teams, so I’m with a whole new crew, who I’ll introduce in another blog.
Our first day we went to a temple where we walked around and prayed for the people of this country. That they would see that there is only one true God. Hinduism and Buddhism are the biggest religions here, it’s not just a religion, but a culture.
Since then we have gone to a home for elderly women who would be living on the streets if they weren’t at this home. There we prayed for them and sang with them. There was also a little baby there, who we named SoJo (after our squad name, Sojourners) the baby was left at a hospital nd these women decided to take him in and care for him. What a beautiful picture of the love of Jesus.
We were able to go to an addiction rehab, where we heard the story of the man who founded the place. We also were able to talk to and pray with the three women that were there. We went to the slums and volunteered with an organization that feeds the children there. We got to go to a home and share testimonies and a short message with the believers there.
We have walked to villages to pray for believers and to share the good news. We hiked up to a waterfall where we were able to spend time just enjoying the cool water, because it is HOT here. On the way down we stopped at a home where a husband, wife, and mother-in-law were and we were able to talk with them. We started to share about Jesus with them and they told us they had never heard before. The woman kept saying that it all sounded good and she had never experienced the love of Jesus, but there were things she couldn’t get over. Persecution is a real thing here and that’s one of the things holding them back. They also said that they drink alcohol and they know that Christians in this culture don’t do that. And the last thing, a cultural thing, they weren’t okay with Christians marrying outside of the cast system. These are things that normally we probably wouldn’t even think about. Just because they didn’t get saved right there on the spot doesn’t mean that God isn’t at work. What a beautiful opportunity it is to be the first people to ever share the Gospel with someone. i know that seeds have been planted. I gave the woman a cross so that she wouldn’t forget what we told her that day. So that every time she looked at it she would remember what Christ did for her.
Please continue to keep me and my entire team in prayer. It’s not always an easy journey but the Lord is always faithful.
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