These past few days have been SO COOL! Thank you to everyone who prayed and donated to help us go trekking. Let me tell you all about it. First off whoever said trekking was just another word for hiking was seriously mistaken. Oh right that was me before we started. A little more challenging than I thought. Please pray for me as my body aches and I’m hobbling around trying to recover. But it’s been so worth it. Bonding with the team and our translators while we dodge leeches and wake up to watch the sunrise over the mountains. Even though day one started us out with pouring rain and lightning it couldn’t erase the big smiles on our faces and excitement in our eyes. We were psyched for everything the Lord had for us.
The Annapurna region we’ve been in is take your breath away beautiful. So many times I find myself stopping, staring out at the mountains, turning to Suze and saying “holy crap what is our life right now?“
We laugh together and things just keep getting better. Our team splits up into two groups and we go to hand out bibles and visit homes. There we meet people where they’re at. We ask questions and learn about their life and ideas about Christ. We offer stories from the Bible, prayer, testimonies, bible verses or anything to encourage these brothers and sisters in Christ.
The homes I ended up visiting were all women. Mothers and daughters. They shared with me their desire to follow Jesus but their fears that kept them from it. Fear of being exiled by their families and communities. Fear of suffering. Fear of what waits for us when we die. Fear of Jesus’ love not being for someone like them.
We did our best to speak truth into these fears one by one. Looking in their eyes and telling them that Jesus loves them and sees them and hears when they pray to him. I pray that they not only heard that when the interpreter translated it to them but also that they saw the father’s love for them in my face and felt it in my hands.
Leaving this place and these people I feel such peace. They are in the father’s hands we’ve just came by planting and watering seeds. ‘being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.’ Philippians 1:6
