Can we just for a moment act like we are sitting on a couch at the house, drinking a nice hot cup coffee and sharing about life?
Last month in Kazakstan, I met this lady who literally spends the entire day praying in the spirit. ALL day, every hour…I am not kidding. Any who, I asked her to pray for me after meeting her for all of 30 seconds. One of the things she said was, “You love to talk! You talk talk talk talk talk”, a huge burst of laughter from myself and two of my friends came out, we couldn’t contain it because it is literally so true. She continued “He says, I am not tired of you. Talk to me, He says, talk to me. When you feel people get tired of you, I never tired you. Just talk to me, pour out to me.” It was seriously so funny and so sweet, that the creator of the universe loves to hear me talk to him. He never gets tired of me. So now that I have your attention, I’m going to talk, talk, talk….because it’s what I’m good at. I want to try and share about the last two months, and the work God has been doing in Asia.
After two flights, several taxis, 11 hour train ride, a long walk, a few nights in the city of Azerbaijan, a bus, a 33 hour cargo ship, and a 60 hour train ride…We made it to Almaty Kazakstan. The longest travel of my life, anything after this will be a breeze. We didn’t have a ministry host this month, so we spent our entire month making connections with believers in the city and partnering with them. We had english club, house visits, working with special needs, connecting with college students, sharing at a underground church, and inviting people to our house to share the gospel. In a country that is closed to the Gospel….[Yes that is what I just said, this side of the world doesn’t have access to Jesus like we do…which makes our job SUPER important] we saw GOD moving in HUGE WAYS. It is incredible!
>Churches being started underground, and soooooo many people receiving Jesus!
>Healing took place one night at a church- Andrew [A brother on my team] had injured his knee a week prior and the doctor told him he would need surgery because it was messed up in three different ways, totally got HEALED. He also was able to walk a girl up to the front that wanted to receive salvation!
>This kid we met through some local believers was totally against believing in Jesus and his heart was so hardened. He ended up following our team around and allowed our guys on the team to share the gospel with him and answer his questions. You could see God moving in his life!
>We were able to make connections with non believers and share the gospel, seeds were planted!
My most favorite part of Kazak was that we were able to find and partner with so many long term believers, who are doing a lot of work for the Kingdom! It is beautiful to see Gods heart for all the people around the world, and how you can meet believers every where you go. The percentage of believers is still very low in these countries, so it is a blessing to meet and love, encourage and build up our brothers and sisters the best we can in these places! Pray for them, they really need all the prayer and support they can get!
After leaving Kazakstan, we went into month 9 of the race to Kyrgystan. We stayed in this little city called Osh, and OsH my gosh….I fell in love. When you show up to a ministry host after months of going from country to country not being able to openly share the gospel and the first thing your host says to you is “SHARE SHARE SHARE THE GOSPEL”, this intense rush of excitement comes into your very being and you are yelling “LETS FREAKIN GO!” You then know, things are about to happen!
The organization we worked with primarily focused on college students. We would lead these seminars for leadership, tolerance, dreams, business and sports leadership to teach but then would have space created for after to hangout with the students…which mean’t an opportunity outside the campus to share the gospel with our new friends. We literally shared the Gospel, every single day! We had groups of girls and guys that would follow us around, wanted to hangout every day. New people would join as well after these seminars, so we were able to share with them and build even more relationships. Not only are the Kyrgyz people the most friendliest amazing people on the planet, they are so receptive to hearing about Jesus. I fell in love with those girls truly, and was so thankful to have spent time with them.
The gospel was shared by the river, inside coffee shops, on a mountain, in restaurants, parks and walking down the street. Multiple people came to know Jesus last month and we are still hearing about people coming to know Jesus even now that we have left! Take a second…CELEBRATE our good good GOD!
We also witnessed several healings take place! I was able to share my song at a university with 100s of students, not only was God worshipped in that university and seeds sown in peoples hearts but this guy also came up to me after saying his headache was healed as I started singing!! God used my voice that month to sing over people for healing, and I am trying to do a lot more of that moving forward!
Wow! What an amazing God we serve!
What you could pray for us for…
>We are now going into month 10, leaving for Mongolia in a few hours actually where we will encounter nomadic people who have literally never heard the Gospel! Ask GOD for him to do big things this month!!
>An opportunity came up for me for after the race, I will be going to Ireland in October for Women’s ministry. I will be raising support these next several months! One- for my flight back to Nashville once we reach the states.
Two-For the mission trip to Ireland.
Would you prayerfully consider sponsoring me?
>Pray for my squad!! We are on our last leg…YIKES!! God still has big things in store for us and for the people we will meet, we need all the prayers we can get to finish the race [literally] with excellence!
