We recently received several requests from friends who are working with U.s in areas where they are the majority. Looking over this list, I think it includes requests from almost all of the workers I know of (from the west) that are seeking to reach the U people for Christ. Keep in mind, there are 10-12 million U.s . The harvest is vast, workers are few.
Here are those requests:
one couple wrote:
Thanks so much for wanting to lift us up. Our neighbor's wife died on Sunday so we are in the midst of funeral week, Nazirs, etc. We have already had some good spiritual conversations with neighbors and friends. Please pray for wisdom as we navigate all the cultural and religious customs here. We just long to share Jesus with these people.
A single woman who is a bit of a champion in our eyes, pours herself out every day for the U people- wrote:
- One of the girls I have been studing with has also made a JW friend, right now she is very confused about what is truth.
- This afternoon I am finishing up my lectures on the Book of Job, to believer. This is a real language challenge for me, Please ask for clear communication, and understanding on their part.
Another couple, new parents, wrote:
Thank you for thinking of us. We have been out and about now and have some idea of emotions among the peoples in this province. I feel like the hatred between groups are more evident now then before. Does not take much for tension to rise up. We want to see a real peace come into this area, not a fabricated one.
a friend of a friend:
As for the requests, thanks a lot for wanting to think of us!
One thing that we are very excited about is that a strategic city in the south- a cultural headquarters for U people- became an economic development zone, and the possibilities of what that could mean.( more jobs, people not moving away , but moving towards the south, possibly more openness towards receiving fo-ers, raising the life-standard of the people, etc) We all feel like this is an answer to what we asked in the past to happen.
Another thing that I've seen lately is how active the JWs are. Their book came out and they are extremely active, courageous, gathering pple in the homes, renting bars and have about a hundred pple together. It made me so mad to hear these things!!!!! -because we are so cautious that we don't do almost anything. While, these liars and thiefs are leading pple astray.
From what I hear , they have been using our book , and that's what also made me angry. How can they have access to that???? Who is so naive that they just give books to those thiefs? In the capital city they have a sort of center. So, just ask that they will be kicked out, discovered, that pple will turn them in.
Please pray for my friend E. She started coming to the english corner again about 2 months ago and recently we've been getting together in her house. She is deeply thinking about stuff and it looks like strongholds are getting destroyed in her mind about Him. Another friend A. started joining it too, and we have been so excited about what is going on in E . We are also constatnly lifting her up.
A couple in leadership wrote:
* A woman in our fellowship is being divorced by her husband. They have a young baby. She is growing in her faith through this, but it's very hard. Pray for her husband, to have a change of heart. He's having an affair. Sadly, he was a professing Christian at one time -- or as we've seen, really just a very good friend of a foreigner. He now denies any faith at all. His sister is also a part of the fellowship. Pray for wisdom as we counsel the wife and the sister and hope to speak to this husband.
* We're going to visit family in the countryside next week. Pray that we would speak the Gospel clearly and that it would be planted well in the hearts of our loved ones to bear much fruit in them for Christ.
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