As I sit here this morning amidst a brief time of quiet, I was thinking back to the past few days and how significant they have been. God has shown Himself faithful in so many ways. A praise report for all those wondering is Lizzi hasn't thrown up for about 4 or 5 days now. Things are gradually getting easier for Liz and she has been able to participate in just about everything we have done. She still gets tired but God has given her supernatural strength and I see it!
Last Friday we held our first college outreach. It was at a college called Ambedkar College. I have never seen Indian's especially students smile and get so excited. I did a mini concert and then we played a "Minute to Win It" game with the students. Lizzi led that and she did so amazing! She is a natural on stage...especially with games! After that, Cory brought the word of the Lord about Faith. That was awesome because he doesn't feel comfortable on stage and even public speaking. God spoke through him very powerfully and it was awesome to watch. I came back up and played a worship song to end out the night. It was a great night! ...did I mention that we had about 200 students show up? Awesome! We are doing possibly two outreach's this week at colleges on Thursday and Friday. As well as doing these outreaches we invite the students to a big event that we are hosting at the Harvest India Campus on February 25th. We are praying for at least 1,000 students to come and bring there friends! Pray that as we engage these students that a new and wonderful relationship will be formed between the youth and Harvest India so that the youth in the campuses can be ministered to with the Love of Jesus.
Saturday (as with every saturday) we taught conversational english at the KSK college which is run by Harvest India. It's been going very well but I'm a bit of a distraction to my class at this all girl school. It was Lizzi's first time at the campus and I was thrilled! She really is feeling so much better.
Sunday we went to our friend Daniel's church. He works for Harvest India as a translator and more. He is also on the Residential team India side. We work with him closely and has become a dear friend. I was privileged to give a message at his church. I gave a sermon from Ephesians 2:1-10. Afterwards we went to his house which is across the street and where his family had prepared lunch for us. It was a wonderful Sunday.
Monday was a day of preparation as we were going to be celebrating an old testament tradition of passover. It's not passover yet traditionally but John had been reading in the old testament and was so drawn by it that he wanted to do it ...except that he leaves in a little less than two weeks so we did it earlier. According to the tradition on the 10th of the month you find a 1yr old male sheep or goat that is pure and without blemish. Take it home, care for it, and on the 14th kill it and eat it. There is more to it but you can read about it in Exodus 12. We did this as an act of obedience to God when he spoke for us to experience this, an act of worship to our Great God, and an act of Faithfulness as God has been so faithful to His people from generation to generation. So as God would have it on Valentines day we slaughtered a lamb and ate it. To me it really drove home the kind of love that God had for us sending His son to the Cross for us. On all days, Valentines day, I understood a little better what love really means. Jesus was our final Sacrifice and Atonement for sins. We no longer need to sacrifice animals to Atone for our sins. Jesus was a Sacrificial Lamb that was slain for all of us! It was a heavy night of worship for me and also great tasting fresh lamb kabobs. Actually, it was some of the best lamb I have tasted ever and we had bell peppers, onions, and mushrooms to go with it; as well as bitter herbs and unleavened bread. We made sure to prepare the food in an "American" way so that it would actually taste good to us. The Indians just started throwing curry all over everything else. It was nice to have a meal without curry.
So that kind of gets you caught up on what's been going on here. We are taking a couple days rest at the beach. We leave tonight and come back on Thursday to do the college outreach. We will also be practicing or dance routine at the beach. Yes I said it, dance routine. The whole team is preparing a dance routine for our big event on the 25th. Indians like dance routines, just watch a bollywood or tollywood movie. We'll see how it goes....
Thanks for your prayers and commitment to us! We are so blessed! Also thank you to all of you who God put on there hearts to support us! We have raised the $9,000 that we committed to RockHarbor that we would raise. Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of our hearts! I leave you with this for now. A charge to continue persevering in your faith.
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the JOY set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart...strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. Make level paths for your feet so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather HEALED." Hebrews 12:1-3; 12-13
Embrace the will of God. Obey the call of God. Receive the power of God. Reflect the peace of God. We are God's witnesses and belong to Him. Our purpose is to praise the King of kings and make him known. If this is our desire, He'll surely show us how. Amen and Amen! God's spirit is living inside of you ready to release the power of heaven in you! "Ask and you shall receive, knock and the door will be opened unto you, seek and you will find." Old or young we can and must run until we are finished. I've come to realize that there is no retiring in ministry. We are "a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light." Go in God's grace and power to love and to serve others for the world will know that we are Christians by our love.
Chris
Last Friday we held our first college outreach. It was at a college called Ambedkar College. I have never seen Indian's especially students smile and get so excited. I did a mini concert and then we played a "Minute to Win It" game with the students. Lizzi led that and she did so amazing! She is a natural on stage...especially with games! After that, Cory brought the word of the Lord about Faith. That was awesome because he doesn't feel comfortable on stage and even public speaking. God spoke through him very powerfully and it was awesome to watch. I came back up and played a worship song to end out the night. It was a great night! ...did I mention that we had about 200 students show up? Awesome! We are doing possibly two outreach's this week at colleges on Thursday and Friday. As well as doing these outreaches we invite the students to a big event that we are hosting at the Harvest India Campus on February 25th. We are praying for at least 1,000 students to come and bring there friends! Pray that as we engage these students that a new and wonderful relationship will be formed between the youth and Harvest India so that the youth in the campuses can be ministered to with the Love of Jesus.
Saturday (as with every saturday) we taught conversational english at the KSK college which is run by Harvest India. It's been going very well but I'm a bit of a distraction to my class at this all girl school. It was Lizzi's first time at the campus and I was thrilled! She really is feeling so much better.
Sunday we went to our friend Daniel's church. He works for Harvest India as a translator and more. He is also on the Residential team India side. We work with him closely and has become a dear friend. I was privileged to give a message at his church. I gave a sermon from Ephesians 2:1-10. Afterwards we went to his house which is across the street and where his family had prepared lunch for us. It was a wonderful Sunday.
So that kind of gets you caught up on what's been going on here. We are taking a couple days rest at the beach. We leave tonight and come back on Thursday to do the college outreach. We will also be practicing or dance routine at the beach. Yes I said it, dance routine. The whole team is preparing a dance routine for our big event on the 25th. Indians like dance routines, just watch a bollywood or tollywood movie. We'll see how it goes....
Thanks for your prayers and commitment to us! We are so blessed! Also thank you to all of you who God put on there hearts to support us! We have raised the $9,000 that we committed to RockHarbor that we would raise. Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of our hearts! I leave you with this for now. A charge to continue persevering in your faith.
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the JOY set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart...strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. Make level paths for your feet so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather HEALED." Hebrews 12:1-3; 12-13
Embrace the will of God. Obey the call of God. Receive the power of God. Reflect the peace of God. We are God's witnesses and belong to Him. Our purpose is to praise the King of kings and make him known. If this is our desire, He'll surely show us how. Amen and Amen! God's spirit is living inside of you ready to release the power of heaven in you! "Ask and you shall receive, knock and the door will be opened unto you, seek and you will find." Old or young we can and must run until we are finished. I've come to realize that there is no retiring in ministry. We are "a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light." Go in God's grace and power to love and to serve others for the world will know that we are Christians by our love.
Chris
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