If you've ever doubted the impact that one simple invitation
can make in a friend or family member's life, please read on! If you've ever
doubted the impact that one simple prayer of faith can make in a friend or family
member's life, please read on! If you're like me, and you've ever doubted the
relevance of the Good News in this enormous, pain-filled world of ours, please
read on!
Today we got to sit down and catch up with another one of
our M couples living in this city. They are both English teachers at a local
university and are carefully navigating the odd teacher-student barrier in
hopes of building friendships with their students and sharing the Good News.
Please pray for historically dead-bolted doors to be crashed open so that this
couple can freely invest in their students. Please pray for travel safety as
this couple returns to the States for the summer to rest and fund raise before
returning back to Asia to continue Father's work.
This evening, we invited some of the university students
we've met over the past 6 or 7 years to a coffee shop "English Club".
Last evening, only 2 or 3 of our contacts had responded that they were going to
attend, so we prayed that more would come. This morning, a few more confirmed,
and we prayed that the hearts of those attending would be opened to the Good
News, but personally, I was satisfied with that small handful of students,
afraid that if too many students came, it would be too difficult to effectively
communicate and keep order in the coffee shop. Thankfully, Father had different
plans...
Over 20 students came to the coffee shop last night, many of
whom we'd never met before, but who were invited by their friends. Several of
those students we'd never met actually invited their own friends from
university to come to the coffee shop! We all broke up into small conversation
groups and got to know the students individually before forming a large group
of all the students. Then our leader and another team member shared more about
our reasons for traveling to Southeast Asia and shared their stories about how
the Good News has changed their lives. Afterwards, one of the Asian students
actually shared his own story about how he became a Brother and one of his
friends translated for us.
The Good News is spreading on its own! We are not
responsible for its movement. It is Living and True and Powerful. All we can do
is plant, water and obey! And that's all He asks us to do!
Please pray that we will have many opportunities over the
next week to meet with individual students to talk more about each of our
stories and the greatest Story of them all. Please continue to pray for the
health of our team and for travel safety as we travel tomorrow to the home of
one of these students and his friends for a home cooked meal and more
conversation. We're also lunching with a medical student who made a Decision on
one of our past trips, hoping to continue Upward focused conversations.
We love you all! Thank you for all your love and support!
Southeast Asia Team
