My favorite thing about ministry this month has been the conversations we have had with our new friends here in Ulaanbaatar.
Over the course of the month, my team and I have made some random yet amazing friendships from meeting people in just on the street, in coffee shops, music stores, English class and church services. Most of these good conversations don’t just end there. We have actually been able to spend time with our new friends more much often. We have dinner together, play games and even go out for karaoke after throwing one of them a surprise birthday party!
This kind of ministry feels more like a very open-handed lifestyle, where what’s mine is yours, and where we take the time to find out how each other is really doing. It’s not hard. It’s not rocket science. It’s just taking the time to get to know someone and sharing your walk with God with them– from the songs that we sing together, to the extra portion we make so that someone can stay for dinner.
It is such a gift to be a part of God adding to His church here in Mongolia, especially in a region with little to no familiarity with Christianity. But I bet there have been those who have gone before us, who have worked this ground on their knees in prayer and watered it with tears for their nation. We can sense it in the faces of faithful Mongolians praying earnestly at church every Sunday, with the same hunger and faith for God to move. I am inspired by their consistency, to prayerfully petition and to continually thank God for His movement in this land.
One of our ministry contacts repeatedly expresses such gratitude whenever our team worships and prays together. This woman is a prayer warrior, and I can tell by the way she prays that she has a spiritual awareness for what God is doing here in this country. She says that as our team worships together, walls of anger, disbelief and heaviness are crumbling down. She says that our prayer and worship bring healing and refreshing waters of hope to this nation.
This has nothing to do with our squad and everything to do with our God. We are here to be a part of what He is doing. We get the chance to play a part in His masterpiece of healing and restoration in this land.
And right now, there’s no place I would rather be: in the middle of what God is doing right here in Mongolia.
