Our Day
ministry site via tuk-tuk (picture)
We drive about
20mins or so to the slums past the dump. The dump has thick smog of filth in the air above it from the burning
trash. We travel to the place where the
garbage collectors live in the slums. There is a missionary network there called Tree of life. In the morning we go around and talk to the
people about their needs and who Jesus is. We all have been focused on praying for them. If they have a problem we pray for it and we
most often ask ourselves if we can be a blessing to them whether it means bring
them food, play with their kids, or referring them to a clinic. After that we break for lunch.
12pm-2pm Lunch
and a little nap. It is so HOT here that
there is need for a nap and rehydration time! I drink A LOT of water! It’s remarkable how hot it is!
2-4:30 Back at
our ministry site we watch the missionary group teach health education to small
groups of people in the community. After
health education our team teaches a lesson about Jesus. There are a lot of
verbal lessons taught since most of the population there are illiterate. Even if they were given a bible they would need
someone to read it to them! Reading… it
is remarkable the small things that we take for granted! Thank you God that I had the opportunity to
learn how to read! Hallelujah!
At 5pm we eat dinner
Generally our team has a feet/hand
washing party after our ministry then dinner…it feels good!
Spiritual Download
Most people here incorporate Buddhism,
Hinduism and other spirit worship. To
break that down from what I have noticed is that they give sacrifices to mostly
all the gods that they hear about to cover all bases. In order to please the spirits they have some
type of spirit house in the drive way and some have it in their house. This is a place they ask spirits to come and
live and they give offerings like fruit, incenses and maybe some other
things. They also burn incenses and give
offerings to trees, buildings, sculptures, etc. They believe everything has a spirit. (picture- Buddhist temple, there was a spiritual feeling of hundreds of voices booming around me at once. There were a lot of idols)
Christian Download
here because we need to make sure that people realize that there is only one
true God. Also helping them realize that
they do not need to give sacrifices to please spirits. Here we are introducing who Jesus Christ is
and telling his stories since people do not have the luxury of having a bible
or knowing how to read. When someone is
asked if they want to accept Christ it is also tricky since sometimes they just
say yes because they just want to please you. In a lot of this ministry we trust the Lord
to work in their hearts.
