Spencer and I got home from our trip yesterday (Thursday) at 1:30pm PST after 39 hours of travel. What a journey! We are tired, but excited to share our experiences. I hope that you will ask us about all that happened.
Here are two snippets…
GP is an associate pastor at his church. He is humble, thoughtful, and articulate in his presentation of God’s Word. Though he had as much skill as any we met in his preaching, he had spent 26 years as an associate. When I asked him why, he responded that he did not want the limelight! In the few days we spent with him, he shared his story with us. He was raised a Hindu, but at about 20 years of age, he was visited by a man in a dream who spoke to him about the deception of the Hindu faith and the truth that could be found in Jesus. After that dream, he picked up a Bible and started reading. Intrigued by what he read, he went to the church of an acquaintance and there met the Jesus he had read about in the Bible.
The pastor and trainer we worked with in the Northern part of the country grew up in a Hindu family, and was told by his grandfather of the terrible things that would happen if he neglected the superstitious practices of Hinduism. As a young man, he secretly “tempted fate” by disregarding such practices only to discover that nothing of consequence happened when he did. As a result, he became ambivalent about his Hinduism. When he went away to college, he came into contact with a Christian at his university. He was invited to visit church, found Jesus, and dedicated his life to the ministry.
Even though evangelism is technically illegal in that country, God is working in South Asia to bring people to Himself in both ordinary and extraordinary ways.
God can do the same kinds of things in the Rogue Valley. Let’s pray that He will and commit ourselves to joining with Him in that work.