Midway through the month of December. ( I know its a couple months behind) Better late than never.
While during this month, our team was invited to attend a woman’s church Christmas Party. It was called a sister’s party. While in attendance, a couple of ladies and I were talking and got on the topic of my travels around the world. Once our conversation was done, the ladies were so excited to hear my story. One of the ladies, said.” I needed to go talk to the youth group about story and how God is working in my life.” The kids are really struggling and need some encouragement.
Next morning I went and talked to the pastor about talking to the kids. One could say the pastor was a little surprised and pondered this idea for a minute. We got talking and he was leaning on maybe. It make sense, some foreigner coming into his church and want to talk/ teach his kids with out much notice. Well, he felt like God wanted me to teach the kids. He introduced me to his assistant. Let call her Samantha.
When I arrived to talk to Samantha, she told me she was short staffed and asked I wouldn’t mind helping her out. No problem, afterwards, we talked and it just clicked between both of us. She told me about her story and how her sister where the only believers in her family. She mentioned that it would end badly if she even told her parents she was at church. Then I told my story. Sam was so excited and said I could teach the kids.
Couple of weeks later, I taught the youth group about hearing God’s voice and how he looks after his sheep. Then told my story to them about the world race. Afterwards Sam invited Ana, Cassandra and I to her house for super. She really just wanted to have friends around and have a good time.
The night for super came, and I was not feeling the greatest ( that is a whole another story). I was really debating on going, but one of my team mates convinced me to go. We had a blast. Played games, ate an awesome super and then my friends and I had this feeling that we should pray for her. After we prayed for her, it turns out that she was praying to God for someone to come into her life and pray for her before the year was up. The night we had the super was on December 30th.
Please keep Sam in your prayers as she really needs the encouragement when Christian friends are so far and in between. Her name has been changed as a safety precaution.
