Vision Report #3

Sunday, July 20 – Last night we sang for the Chinese congregation followed by communion led by Betty Anderson.  There were a total of 11 Chinese businessmen and women attending with 7 joining in the communion service.  Keiko shared her testimony of how she became a Christian.  The non-Mandarin speakers among us then left while they sang heartily and enthusiastically.  Wahpui Sam then spoke and continued to counsel several of the members who had both marital as well as business problems late into the night. Since today is Sunday, it is good to pause and thank God for all His answers to prayer.  Here are a few: 1.      We all got boarding passes and made all the flights to Serbia. 2.      All our luggage got here with us. 3.      The weather has been remarkably comfortable here, nothing like last year.  The daytime temperature is mostly in the eighties and the nights are cool, cool enough to even need a  sweater. 4.      No one is sick and Jaspher, who had a cold coming is getting better. On the other hand, God has chosen not to answer our prayer about the number of Serbian youths joining the music camp.  So far, we only have 6, 4 girls who in fact sing quite well and have been learning the music before we even came, and two guys, one a Roma Gypsy who unfortunately cannot get a passport in time to go to Macedonia with us.  But God knows what is best for us and will bring to the team those who are best able to minister.  This morning we attended and sang at the Serbian church service at 10 AM.  There were about 60 or 70 attending (not counting us).  Alex shared about his experience worshiping God.  Betty Anderson then preached with Nena translating.  She spoke from John 11 about Jesus calling Lazarus from the dead.  At the end of the message she asked for those wanting prayer to come forward.  Most of the elderly came forward immediately and soon was joined by the young people so that almost Serbian at the service came forward to be prayed and anointed.  Betty spoke words of prophecy and encouragement to each person and ended with charging the dozen or so young people left to be filled with the Holy Spirit and be bold in proclaiming Christ in Serbia.  The meeting, which should have ended at 11:30 did not end until well past noon.  It was a time of release and breakthrough so we look forward to what God will do in the days to come. After lunch, we continued with our music camp, with one more young man joining us (he had been among those prayed for in the morning), so now we have 7 Serbian youths.  Tonight is the Roma Gypsy service which starts at 6 PM.  The only real problem we have had so far is getting the ATM machine to give us money from the Vision account so pray for Robert Lo as he works this problem.  So far we are surviving with Joseph and Fiona Hsiung getting money from their ATM personal account, so even when we have problems, God has provided us with at least a temporary solution. You can catch up on any missing items by going to http://visionchoir.blogspot.com