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| Our Bible study group! |
During the first full week, our leader, Aaron Barker was sick with someone that is not from heaven! Meanwhile our accountant and awesome friend was also quite sick. So for the first week we were limping along, and really pressing into Jesus for strength. Thank God that He can still work even in our weaknesses. However, there was amazing fruit even the first week, as we were beginning to get God's heart for the city of Battambang!
We are able to help build a local cafe, which is leading to some amazing team bonding times. I hope to do another post about those times, but lets just say that we are bringing the kingdom into everyday things.
A huge part of what we've been doing is teaching english and bible studies at the local youth center. It is such a blessing to use something useful like english to draw people in! So for 2 days a week during those classes, we've seen amazing fruit, and we are actually just having group bible studies on Tuesday and Thursday! The students are so incredibly hungry for the one true God! It's just incredible. Incredible!
As a fruit of the English classes we've now seen 2 solid salvations, and we're continuing to press on to see our entire classes come to be saved by the one! The only! JESUS CHRIST!
Another thing that was quite exciting was to have a rainstorm completely drench the city of Battambang. Last night we had such a crazy rain and lightning storm that there was about a foot of water on the road and the power went out for about 20 minutes. The funnest part was that we got to cook spaghetti and hang out with kids in the storm.
On Saturday Min and I went to a local pizza shop with 10 of the kids from our bible study. We each got to share our testimonies, and after the course of those 3 epic hours, we heard that 3 students had become officially saved and that 2 more decided that Jesus was the only real God and wanted to follow him Whole Heartedly! And that all fruit of just getting together and discovering God's word together.
An amazing testimony was told during the time: Someone with an empty gas tank in their motorbike prayed to God, and He filled it up with gas! There is nothing short of God's amazing powers.
We've also seen about 2 healings per week, which is just amazing! It just truly shows God's character, and the little healings always draw them to the biggest miracle of all: getting their soul saved!
So thats what has been happening in the past, now looking forward to the future:
- Pray that a Cambodian House of Prayer would get stirred up as we start the first steps for that
- Pray for radical discipleship of the new Christians, that they would be fully surrendered and eager for more!
- Pray that we will continue to see healing of entire people: heart, body, and soul
- Pray that Philippians 2:3-5 would become a reality for our team, to press in for the fullness of unity
- Pray that we would continue to have a greater understanding of how to have fun and rest in Godly ways
