Mid Outreach Report
My team and I are doing well and still excited to be pursuing this ministry. Thank you all for your prayers… I doubt you know how greatly I appreciate them. We have seen some fruit of our efforts yet much of what we have done we have not seen what God is really doing. The sad thing is we’ve only gotten to spend short periods of time with the backpackers we’ve been met, but God has begun something new. Its been on all of our hearts lately to meet someone who could travel with us and who we could really disciple. Only recently has this been made possible. We met a really cool young woman in Darjeeling that we then got to ride on the same bus with to Kathmandu… well sort of. She went to Kathmandu while we jumped off half way there and now we’ve caught up. Incredibly, and I believe by the Lords guidance, we ran into her in this huge city before we had even scheduled our hotel! Now we’re continuing this friendship and speaking into her life. Be in prayer for this ministry opportunity, PLEASE! We all agree that if this were the only soul the Lord sent us here to invest in all our money, time, and efforts would be well spent… even if we don’t see the results. Her name’s Melody and she’s from France. She’s doing a 10 day Buddhist meditation course starting on the first of February, as well as she would like to join us for our prayer, worship, and bible study times. Pray that she would see the truth and life in our faith and the emptiness that is in the pursuit of all other “truths”. She has also admitted that she knows she doesn’t “know” who she really is and is searching, so pray that she would discover her true identity that can only come from our heavenly Father.
Thank you all for interceding on her behalf! Just imagine, when the day comes, as you stand before the Father in His heavenly courts, beside you stands this young woman who you mourned for, standing in the gap, till she accepted the faith. Every Backpacker we come in contact with I want to think of in this way. Again, thank you.
Sorry for being brief but how and where we’ve traveled I feel is far less important than the previous, however it is worth mentioning. I decided last week to split the team into two groups for a few days so that we could travel more easily and have more ministry opportunities. We left Darjeeling one day after the other bound for the Royal Chitwan National Park. I left with the first three and Melody which was an adventure but we made it. The other three caught up with us a day later taking the same rought but with different challenges. It was a wonderful 3 days of rest at the National Park which I feel was needed before heading to Kathmandu. We arrived here yesterday which is where I began.
Thank you all again
God Bless
