Welcome to Kathmandu! Let’s start the day with some breakfast…
Muesli with fruit and some coffee
Followed by a quick 2 mile walk to ministry. Gotta eat a good breakfast!
Every morning, we have something called “Amad” time. Amad is a Hebrew word that means “to abide” or “to stand”.
Our Amad is basically us taking one hour of personal quiet time once we arrive to our ministry base.
Sometimes we go to Pastor Brian’s house, and sometimes we go to the Women’s Center that offers various opportunities for women who have been rescued from trafficking, as well as preventative measures towards human trafficking.
It is an amazing start to the day and we are all enjoying this time with the Lord! Our ministry hosts are adamant about getting our cups filled by the Holy Spirit before we go out to overflow with His love during ministry.
Right now, I’m reading Numbers! I started the Race in Genesis and hope to have finished the Bible by the time I am done.
Our Amad time is followed by an hour-long squad worship session on the roof.
It’s all-squad month, so we do ministry and live together while we are in Nepal.
Next month we will split back up into our normal teams of 7.
All-squad month is THE BOMB, and I will be sad when it’s over!
Then, it’s time to set out for ministry while enjoying some sweet views.
This week, we split up into groups and alternated either going to slum ministry, or visiting something called cabin restaurants.
Cabin restaurants are not what they sound like.
They are restaurants where men go and order food, and order a girl as well. The girls who work there are basically prostitutes, and some have been trafficked from their home villages under the guise of a normal job in the city.
We go to the restaurant, order cold sodas for ourselves and the girls. We basically buy them for an hour just to get to know them and hear their stories.
They usually don’t allow large groups of tourists in, so we were told we may just have to do a “Jericho March” around the building and pray for the souls inside. The Lord blessed us this week, however.
We were welcomed in and the girls we met were so beautiful and so happy to talk to us. They invited us to their home for coffee and we went back twice to see them. We shared Jesus with them, candy with their kids, and hugs and love that we hope will cross all language barriers. I dearly love them and have only known them a short time.
They told us they didn’t want to work there anymore. Our ministry rescues women from these very restaurants. Please pray for our new friends, that the Lord will give them a way out and bring them to Himself.
Below are a couple of pictures of a typical cabin restaurant.
Next up, we head to the slums.
There are thousands of “street kids” in Nepal and in the rest of the world as well.
They live on the streets, either part time or full-time. This is usually because their home environment is more dangerous than a life in the streets. Their fathers may be alcoholics who abuse them, or their mothers might be prostitutes who bring men home at all hours of the day and night.
They might just not have parents at all.
Our ministry goes to the slums and rescues children from this life.
Sometimes they are untrusting, or don’t want to leave because their community on the streets is the closest thing they have to family.
There is fierce gang culture, and kids can become sexually active at as young an age as 3-4.
They sniff glue and get drunk to pass the time. This makes their life expectancy almost nonexistent.
So, we go to the slums to give a message of love. We hand out candy and food, play games, tell Bible stories, or take them to the cafes to buy them a plate of MoMo’s; a Nepali specialty.
We pray for their parents.
We pray over them.
We tell them about Jesus, and keep an eye out for children in need of urgent rescue who we can move to a Christian family who will provide for them and give them an opportunity to go to school.
Did you know that if every Christian family in the world adopted ONE street kid, there would be no more street kids??
After ministry, we catch a bus and head home to hang out at coffee shops and fellowship, and start over again the next day!
