transition

Friends,

It's been too, too long since we've updated you here.   Stats show that about 1-2 people check in here a day.  Oh, I wish it were more!  Lord rise up more prayer warriors to lift our hands and to prepare the way in prayer for your work among the remnant of Uyghur people you've prepared for yourself.  And Father, help me to be faithful to update well too…

First of all, I hope and pray this will be the last season of our time in China when we will have so very few Uyghurs around us.  In late Dec, our two closest friends, Uyghur university students in town, headed back after rushing to take exams early, to be at his brother's wedding.  They just returned a few weeks ago for the new semester (Chinese New Year is a long break!).  So it's been a low time of Uyghur contact for us…. but a full & brimming season as we've taken care of another international errand and fussed over details for our soon move.  We rejoice that in just a few more weeks, we'll be planted in a neighborhood of Uyghurs.  We have prayed for this, longed for this, prepared for this for over seven years….  Lord make of us what you desire, use us for your glory in this place!!

So, those two friends….  we are still yearning for their salvation.  It seems they are hiding in/ clinging to Islam more than ever.  May the Lord give us his bold, true, living LOVE to show and communicate to "Hannah and Rob" when we see them in the next few weeks to say good-bye.

Would you also pray with us for the details of our move?  We don't have an apartment there- and right now we don't even know if we'll get one before we pull into town- but we hope so!  Pray that the Lord will prepare for us the right neighbors and the right relationships.  Pray for our teammates who will also be looking for a new apt…. we hope to live near each other.

And for our right to live there…  We want to honor this country and uphold their requirements of foreigners, but man!  their hoops for us to jump are many and tricky.  Ask the Lord to give us wisdom and grace and favor as we seek to prepare the right way for our work there.  These things are mountains that, it feels to me, will take miracles to bring down…..  may the Lord open the Red Sea of this province and provide the way for His ambassadors to enter in…

Lastly, about the work we'll do there.   Some of that mountain of difficulty is not only red tape on the China side, but funding from the states-side.  Would you pray with us for the Lord's gracious, generous provision for this?  Also, you can consider if perhaps the Lord might lead you to share about our ministry with others who may want to give too?  And maybe you, if He's leading you to give?…. Anyone can give to our account simply by clicking on the PIONEERS logo in the sidebar.

We're coming soon against deadlines (we need to start the application process to register a business there) with funding that we simply do not have yet.  Miracles.  Pray with us?  The Lord can do us and we have nothing apart from Him!  And yet, we pray humbly for this, realizing that if funds are not provided, that could be his leading for a plan B for us.  We are laid out before the Lord for his provision and guidance.  Thank you for praying with us and for us dear friends!

For His glory and our joy in Him~

the prayerfuel folks