coming from the capital

My husband's close friend from the capital is boarding a train this evening and will arrive at our house tomorrow.  He'll be meeting with two guys here in town to see about a new role in a company that we hope to see become a long-term avenue of service here.

Would you ask that "Max" would be drawn to Christ through his potential new work with believers in this company, through friendship with us, through God's Word...?

made needy

My tutor is soon returning from being with her family because a severe health need arose, there was surgery, hard recovery, and now she can finally return to our city to continue her studies.

This is M, my closest uyghur girlfriend in town, who has listened to me blank-faced, with silent expression and silent lips, for a whole year now.  Would you ask that she would begin to respond, to initiate, to talk about spiritual things with us?  Ask that she would be made hungry, needy, curious for the Word, for truth from God, for help.  I pray that she would begin to see that her approaching Allah is pointless- there is no hope, no help, no truth, no grace, no love there for her or her needy mom.

in his hands

A dear Uyghur friend of ours here in town lost his father suddenly last summer.  He shared with us precious pieces of his heart, his story of arriving to his family's home and being the last one to know the news, his sorrow and pain nightly, his loneliness that many of his fellow Uyghur students on his campus don't know that his father passed away simply because it's too painful for him to speak of it.

And then we learned that his father knew was close friends with misny friends of ours who lived in their town a decade ago.  Oh God come graciously to this whole family!

This friend left our home last week with a copy of the New Testament and Gen and Exodus in his language.  One book, bound beautifully, covered in characters and art that speak his heart's culture and language....  and may the Living Word draw this young man, open his eyes and ears and heart and bind him to Himself too.

Will you join us to pray boldly for this friend?  Ask that the Holy Spirit would open his eyes to see the Living Word, Jesus, in the Word of God.