What Month 5 Looked Like

Wow, what an amazing month of ministry!

We were super busy and covered a lot of different things this month. This month our team also stayed with another team from my squad. It was so fun. I absolutely enjoyed the time we had this month.

We spent mornings tutoring Children in English before they went to school. Then we spent an hour at a women’s center teaching English every morning.

After lunch we spent an hour in prayer called amad, where we invited God’s presence to be filled by Him before going out to do slum ministry. 

I don’t have many pictures but slum ministry was a place where families were living along a muddy river bank. It was the poorest of all poverty you could think of. And there we would round up kids and share songs, games, and bible story skits with them. It was so much fun!

 One day we blessed a youth program by painting their outer walls of the buildings and ended in playing football (soccer) and the Nepali afternoon tea time! YESS!

In the beginning of the month I had a dream that my team was going to do a women’s dance bar ministry. The next day my team leader announced what we were doing for the month and that was one of them!

Woah!

And so we ended up working with a women’s ministry where women are subject to human trafficking. We spent time walking in streets interceding for women in sex trafficking and walked into cabin restaurants to minister to them. In the cabin restaurants, women are restricted from leaving. We spent our time ministering to them with words of encouragement in hopes that the Lord would make ways for them to escape through a rescue process. 

A group of 6 of us walked in and we sat literally in a boarded section that divided the tables or eating areas. Women push to sell things so that they can pay off the loans that the owners put onto the restaurant. They try to pay off the loan in hopes they have a chance to leave when it is paid off but the owner puts a new loan down to keep women trapped. 

The Lord used our conversations in telling them what their names meant. We prayed with them and we are praying they will agree to the rescuing process down the road. 

The last few days of the month we drove 6 hours through the mountains to a village where we did house visits to the pastor’s extended families and prayed for them. There we met a man who was a witch doctor most of his life and who had given his life to Jesus 16 years ago. Today his family are all part of the church in the community. 

We had opportunities to preach and share testimonies in the village and I got to experience preaching for the first time. I wrote about that in my last blog about courage.

During the house visits, one family blessed us with tea and a warm wheat snack! So yummy!

In this country, where evangelism of Christianity is illegal, the people from this church have been persecuted. They have shared stories of where they would walk through the community and asking people if they needed prayer and people would call the police to get them arrested. Sharing the gospel boldly is difficult here. Pray that people would be drawn to the Lord’s heart, that they would experience the light and love of Christ through the darkness here.

Every morning just before the sun rises, people wake up to worship their gods. The other morning I was sitting on our rooftop at sunrise and I could here so many bells in different directions being rung throughout the town. People will walk in circles around their gods and prayer temples, spinning prayer wheels. Every colorful flag that is seen is one individual prayer. 

People are praying prayers to gods that don’t exist, children are being sold into sex trafficking, women sell themselves are are trapped into it. People become shameful of their life, and the hope of Christ is desperate here. 

Overall, our month was full of different ministries and through each of them we have learned and grown in different ways all in glory to the Father. We have done new things we have not done yet. Being obedient to doing the uncomfortable is the best way to grow into what the Lord calls us to do and to grow in. Trusting the Lord in obedience has been the most fruitful things we can see. 

Rwanda is up next!! I can’t wait to see what the Lord has in store for our team and the people we will me and pray with!