I know it has been too long since I wrote an update. But I am learning not to make excuses, so with that I just want to share a few really cool stories with you guys!
First of all we are in Olgii Mongolia, it is a small town of about 8,000 people and about 800 of those people are christians, they are an underground church and have to be careful as the government will harass them. That being the case it has affected the way we do ministry here. We mostly intercede, although there has been opportunity for individual discipleship with some christians that we have connected with, over all we’re here to be an encouragement to the local body, as well as building relationships with a few random people, I even got a free 2 hour massage from the barista at the coffee shop, because she wanted me to give her an honest opinion on whether she did a good job. She was amazing by the way!
I want to add, had this been my first month of the race I would have been having a hard time with this kind of a month, but God has changed my view on spreading the gospel so much, that it is not about doing, it is about being a light and showing love wherever we are and whatever we find ourselves involved with!
Her are a few stories from a while ago how God literally just put us in contact with the right people even if it is at the hostels we chose!
While we were in China we booked a hostel that ended up being in an apartment 20 stories high! Literally would not have found that had we not met a young man on the bus who spoke a little English! We stayed there for 5 days and got so blessed by this young man and his friends, they went with us for a day of exploring, we got to share the gospel with a few of them! There is a long story to this whole thing that I won’t go into detail with, but Soloman accidentally left his passport behind when we left so him and I had to go back and it turned out for good in more ways then one! One of them being we got to pray over him and when we prayed for his back he shared how he felt heat and we said it was Jesus beginning to heal him and he looked at us and said, “I believe in the power of Jesus”. And this was a guy who barely speaks English and he said those words in English! Wow God!
Here is another story, from the hostel we stayed at while we were in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia, we made friends with this couple that was visiting, they were on their way to the Great Wall but about a week earlier she had fallen off a horse in Mongolia and broken her arm which delayed them, that being the only reason they were still there! She had a birthday a couple days before, and us just being a group of girls who love to celebrate said why don’t we throw her a birthday party?! So we got cake and ice cream and other treats and all wrote her encouraging notes and invited them into our room, and celebrated her! She started crying and told us how her birthdays are always sad and lonely and this year was especially hard because she was laid up with this broken arm and she said at one point he had asked her out of frustration, “well what is it then that I can do for you?” To which she replied, ” I just want friends!”
I am here to tell you Papa cares so much for his kids!! They both had a form of Christianity in their backgrounds but had no idea what it looks like to have a relationship with Jesus! And frankly they have been turned off by Christians because they haven’t seen what a true Christian is who actually has a relationship with Jesus!We got to love on them for 4 days! And a couple of us got to share our testimonies, they asked us some deep questions that they said they would never be able to ask those things of any of the Christians that they have known.
Opportunities are available all around us! Are we willing to be interruptible?
