Hello everybody! Hope your all doing great! A popular book right now is "The Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren. One of the lines in the book reads, "He wants His lost children found!" . Our good friends of course immediatly come to mind and Man, I want them to know Jesus! Thanks for your prayers :)
Lucy
A beautiful aboriginal, Lucy is very animated and though only knows two English sentences, has an uncanny way of communicating almost effortlessly with us. We met her last year and are now good friends. Not a week goes by that we don't go to her shop to talk, study Chinese, laugh and just be with her. Lucy has had a hard life and though she seldom shows discouragement my heart screams for her to know the Saviour.
Dorm Kids
One of our friends, the other day, hid his cigarette as we walked toward him, now knowing from all our playful comments that we disaprove. He said in February he will quit smoking, hmm I hope so. Entertainment reigns at our dorm as we constantly have kids popping in to say hello, I wish you could see our living room sometimes! Who needs T.V. when you live with dorm kids! I picture Jesus holding out His arms to these kids and saying "Let the children come unto me!"
James
I believe God has his hand on this close friend. James is assigned to us for his service, to help us with whatever we need. He has become "one of the family" and we'll be very sorry to see him go in April. James is a blast to have around and has helped us so much with our Chinese! I believe he has many people praying for him to surrender his life in order to find it! There's few people that I would be more excited to see come to Jesus than James.
Kinmen people
Often I'm amazed and even shamed at the kindness of these people. We want them to have the wonderful life in Christ that's there for the asking!
I believe God has His hand on this island that hardly anyones even heard of. I feel so honored to be able to be here and get a peek into what He's doing somewhere else in the world, and what He's doing in people's hearts! Wow God is so awesome!
Samuel and Joy
We just went to their house for dinner tonight. The pastor and his wife are a gift from God to Kinmen, they radiate the love and joy of the Lord and I am so grateful that their here!
Please pray for these people, we covet your prayers not only because we know God is faithful to hear and anwser but also because these people are our good friends and we take it as a personal gift when you pray for them! :) Please pray for Lucy, James, the Kinmen people and Samuel and Joy. Please pray that God would be glorified here and we would have the eyes to see and walk through those doors of opportunity in conversation to direct attention to Jesus! Thanks, we really appreciate all you guys! Take care.
Thought of the day: "Faithful is He who has called you, who also will do it" The Bible
Question of the day: what Chinese phrase resembles "wall-eye-knee" ?
