Father has gifted us the opportunity to meet with a local sister and her husband to train them in leadership and community planting. They are beyond gifted in outreach, but they have expressed their desire for further training in the Word to strengthen others. This couple travels through the mountains by bus, motorcycle, and horseback each week to 3 surrounding villages to proclaim the message to the lost, and to encourage brothers and sisters to meet as a group. Currently there are no leaders to lead a weekly community gathering in each of the 3 villages. Our urgent request is in asking Father to provide a leader for each village cell. They come back each week with stories about how villagers have seen the Son in their dreams and they want to know more about Him. They tell us about miracles of healing up in the mountains and people coming to faith from them. We are amazed and comforted to hear that the HS is moving in the mountains and working in the lives of these villagers, and it is an honor to be able to serve them however the Father may use us.
Sometimes when we have been given an opportunity like this one, we think, “Really Father? You’re choosing us to do this?!” But we are deeply reminded by the truth that He chooses all of us as “ordinary people”. He calls all of us to share, no matter the language barrier. “It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from the Father.” 2 Cor. 3:
We have been meeting 1-2 times per week and Chris has been teaching them about the first community in Acts, the foundation of His body of believers, the roles inside the body, and the gift of the HS to explore each person’s sprtual gifts. The goal is for this couple to be trained to understand these messages and then transform them into messages to share with each village cell.
In our last meeting, we gave them several books written by Francis Chan, CS Lewis, and Josh McDowell that have been translated into their language. We also gave them several bilingual good books. We’ve never seen someone so thrilled to receive a good book. You would think we were passing out golden treasure that’s how excited they were. And they want more! Our goal is to gather more books to give them so that they can distribute plenty to each village cell. It reminded us of a utube video out there that shows people’s reaction while opening a suitcase full of good books.