K told me this week that she's been reading the Word in Uyghur now. She has a copy of it with her back in the dorm (she moved back there this week) and is eager to keep reading more... especially since she can only read it here. If she tried to smuggle it back to her home town it would be taken by police if found, and would cause her lots of trouble for family and culture and perhaps pseudo legal reasons. Right now, since she's still investigating Jesus and the Bible, it's not worth it to her to take it that far, like when she returns home this summer. But for now, she told me, she's very glad to be able to read it here, now.
She turned 23 recently so I mentioned to her the 23rd Psalm... and then also John 10 how Jesus is the Shepherd that lays down his life for his sheep. She's listening. Now... may the Lord give grace that her heart and soul would be soft soil, fertile ground, to "recieve with meekness the implanted word which is able to save [her] soul."
Please continue to pray as well for her boyfriend E who has heard this news too.... may he begin to wrestle with this more and more and not just push what he's hearing aside...
Thank you for your prayers dear friends!
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
for us.... discouraged
It's sure not anything new, but we're battling a fair bit of discouragement.
Our family is dealing with a few kinds of very ordinary difficulties that sometimes weigh down Heavy. We've had a tough stretch with an occasionally very defiant 4.5 year old. It's still grey and nasty polluted here and we both feel like we live in endless industrial complex (buildings, cars, cement endless in every direction). I'm dealing with some health things that have just risen to the surface again. They are concerning and uncomfortable more than anything... and especially so when we have such limited health care here (almost none.) And the biggie is that my husband's degree program kind-a just sprung a requirement on him that he needs to finish before he can graduate. OH how he longs (and me too!) to be done with this program this semester.... but now there's more steps to finish- some big ugly ones- before that can happen. Might the Lord work a miracle for us so that he could find a course of research to pursue heartily, that he would be able to finish in the next 6 months?
On the ministry front.... there have been some very exciting discussions lately with my tutor.... check for another post soon.
Oh for more and more again grace!
Thank you for your prayers with us and for us.
Our family is dealing with a few kinds of very ordinary difficulties that sometimes weigh down Heavy. We've had a tough stretch with an occasionally very defiant 4.5 year old. It's still grey and nasty polluted here and we both feel like we live in endless industrial complex (buildings, cars, cement endless in every direction). I'm dealing with some health things that have just risen to the surface again. They are concerning and uncomfortable more than anything... and especially so when we have such limited health care here (almost none.) And the biggie is that my husband's degree program kind-a just sprung a requirement on him that he needs to finish before he can graduate. OH how he longs (and me too!) to be done with this program this semester.... but now there's more steps to finish- some big ugly ones- before that can happen. Might the Lord work a miracle for us so that he could find a course of research to pursue heartily, that he would be able to finish in the next 6 months?
On the ministry front.... there have been some very exciting discussions lately with my tutor.... check for another post soon.
Oh for more and more again grace!
Thank you for your prayers with us and for us.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
getting deeper
Well... it's been far too long since an update here, and there is much to tell! Thank you for your prayers with us for our Uyghur friends and for our humility and wisdom to serve them well. We are so grateful for your partnership with us for God's glory!
My tutor is set to arrive any minute now and today is her birthday. This will be the first tie she's ever had a birthday party (this morning she's coming for class... but she and her boyfriend (my hubby's tutor) and another friend who she's living with during this semester break (who is a like-minded girl who is a worker like us!) will come back to our place tonight for a birthday dinner, cake and ice cream and games. I hope it's a special joy for her!
And there is lots happening in her life and heart. The friend she's living with for a few more weeks (till the dorms open again next semester) has been able to share lots with her about the Lord. K (my tutor) has been reading in the Word and on an evangelistic web site for Uyhgurs (www.injil.net - Injil means New Testament - if you have a minute, you can check this site and you'll automatically hear this language that we are studying, that we love.)
Please pray that the Holy Spirit would continue to work deep in her heart... perhaps most especially to do the work of tearing down her faith in the Koran. Right now that is still her standard of truth. K and her boyfriend and his brother have heard so much of the Gospel from us and two other misny friends in their lives now..... please continue to ask that they would all be drawn to him together, even in this time in our home today!
She's here....
My tutor is set to arrive any minute now and today is her birthday. This will be the first tie she's ever had a birthday party (this morning she's coming for class... but she and her boyfriend (my hubby's tutor) and another friend who she's living with during this semester break (who is a like-minded girl who is a worker like us!) will come back to our place tonight for a birthday dinner, cake and ice cream and games. I hope it's a special joy for her!
And there is lots happening in her life and heart. The friend she's living with for a few more weeks (till the dorms open again next semester) has been able to share lots with her about the Lord. K (my tutor) has been reading in the Word and on an evangelistic web site for Uyhgurs (www.injil.net - Injil means New Testament - if you have a minute, you can check this site and you'll automatically hear this language that we are studying, that we love.)
Please pray that the Holy Spirit would continue to work deep in her heart... perhaps most especially to do the work of tearing down her faith in the Koran. Right now that is still her standard of truth. K and her boyfriend and his brother have heard so much of the Gospel from us and two other misny friends in their lives now..... please continue to ask that they would all be drawn to him together, even in this time in our home today!
She's here....
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