Ministry in Nepal was going into the broken places, where people lived in huts, dirt roads, and many services on the sides of the street. We lived in the touristy part of Nepal called Pokhara and so it was nice getting to live there to make transition to home better but got to see the real realities of how the people live there. My favorite thing about going to different countries and cultures is getting immersed into how they live, eat, sleep, get from place to place, and even learning some of the language. Building relationships with our hosts and getting to hear their stories and becoming part of their family! And so that is what we did, we built relationships with the people in the village and got to encourage them in their faith and pray for healing. Once we prayed for a woman in the village and 3 others came to ask for prayer and we got to see them hunger for the Lord and watch the pain leave a woman’s arm.
Another ministry we did was going to dance bars and talking to the women there to build relationships and invite them on another day to hang out and talk or to a woman’s retreat we had at our house. We did the everything skit, told testimony’s, and even made food. I learned that they do need short term missionaries because many short term means long term in the end. Always new people there to show the girls that this ministry won’t leave them and are going to invest in them. The ladies that were apart of this ministry were so passionate about women and what God’s calling for them was! It inspires me to ask God about what field of ministry he wants me to go into and see where my passions and gifts line up.
So Nepal was my second favorite country to do ministry because we got to do things that stretched me and saw things that change me.
