Meet my new team, we are the Messenger’s,
we are God’s servants ready and willing to go serve him. My teammates are
Samara Murtaugh, Laura Finley, Jared Messenger, and Taylor McKellar
In Isaiah 6 Isaiah has a vision where he is
in heaven standing before the throne of God and Isaiah is absolutely stunned at
the sight of God and he hears the voice of God calling out “Whom shall I send,
and who will go for Us?” Isaiah responds to God saying “Here am I, send me!” God
is crying out to all of us in this way, begging for us to spread his word among
the nations. So here we are the Messenger’s, wanting to give our lives up for
God, responding to God as a whole saying, “here we are, send us.” We aim to present ourselves as living
sacrifices, following the words written by Paul in Romans 12:2 “do not be
conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so
that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good, acceptable, and
perfect.”
We traveled for 5 days to get to where we
are now from Hyderabad, India to Surkhet, Nepal. Our traveling included 1 plane
and somewhere between 4-6 buses, this time included a lot of random adventures
and a lot of waiting around.
Once we finally arrived us 3 girls crashed
on our one wooden bed, which has no mattress or padding. Besides our wooden bed
our living conditions are a huge upgrade compared to where I was living last
month. We have a squatting toilet that is an actual stall with a door that even
locks, and as long as the electricity is working we have running water, we also
have a real shower and it also is in a private stall where you can lock the
door, and finally we have a ceiling fan in our room so that it doesn’t ever get
unbearably hot in our room. Honestly when I saw the toilet and shower with
doors and locks I could’ve cried, I haven’t had much privacy with these things
at all for a majority of the World Race especially last month in India where I
had zero privacy when it came to using the bathroom or bathing.
Ministry in Nepal has been a little
difficult because communication with our translators has been a little hard so
we don’t always know what is going on. We have traveled far, to different
villages either on foot or by bus, we have done some door-to-door and we have
also done some preaching at schools. It has been a slow month, but we continue
to go out every day doing what we can in order to spread the gospel among the
people of Nepal.
