Faith

I've been enormously humbled by today and how God has worked. I personally was a bit worried about how things would turn out but things ended up being fantastic. Praise God.

Today was a busier day than usual. We had youth in the morning, then bible study with the senior high school kids in the afternoon and then went to another Church tonight to share my testimony but also share a bit about our Church back home and to encourage them to evangelise and keep growing. This other Church is in Puli and the youth we shared to was only about 25-30 ppl but a lot of ppl were missing apparently. Last time we went the youth were about 40 - but because of studying in other cities a lot of them couldn't make it back for the weekend.

So this afternoon, we had our second bible study on 'faith in God's grace'. Our studies are basically both an english learning and bible learning activity. They learn more English, and they also get a better understanding of what it means to be a Christian. So encouraged by the attendance today with 7 kids, because last time we only had 5. I think the kids are really learning lots in these Bible studies so praise God. Keep praying for them that they'll want to apply what they learn - may God's Spirit really convict them.

Tonight, we went to this other Church in Puli - the neighbouring town and we've been there in past years too to do outreach with the youth there in teams. This is the 3rd time Ivan and I have gone so I shared my testimony but also really spent a lot of time talking about how important it is to evangelise and to keep growing for God and encouraging them to go out and share the Gospel. Feedback was that they were really encouraged and the Pastor lady there who gave us the opportunity was so good to us and has always welcomed us each year we go. She is a real blessing to that Church and to us. God is spoiling us. The biggest worry of tonight was not having a translator because she only prepared one today, and he hadn't even read our scripts yet and I used heaps of big words like sanctification and regeneration. God smacked me in the face because He really provided for us tonight. Thank you God!! We ended up having a guy who lived in Singapore for about 10 yrs and is now living in Puli and attending that Church to be our translator. I was soooo thankful. Me of little faith. Ah, God is good.
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