Vision Report #13

Saturday, August 2 – When we visit a church, we usually give them a small offering from Vision to help and encourage them in their ministries.  We have so much that even a little from us helps them a lot.  However, we sometimes collect a special offering from our team to help people we meet.  Yesterday, we collected two such offerings.  One is for Philip, the young man we met at Stip who translated for us.  He and is wife of one year "live by faith" (also with his grandparents) but is a strategic link to the youth of Macedonia.  We collected almost $500 for him.  We also collected money for Asteria, the widow missionary who is in need of a knee surgery.  We are told she needs $500 for this operation and the local churches have been collecting for months for this but have not gotten much.  We collected about $365 for her which should help tremendously toward her needs.  Nena knew this lady years ago.  Almost every believer knows of this faithful lady servant of the Lord and we are happy to have been able to help. Last night, we got to the Gypsy village about a half hour late.  There were much fewer people (maybe 30) there this time, perhaps because we were late, but we had a good meeting with them and Betty brought a powerful word.  Several fell over during her prayer for them (just about everyone responded).  We ate a quick food dinner and started our debriefing time with Keiko, who is leaving us early Saturday morning to go back to LA, and Sara and Maria, who have been with us through music camp and Macedonia.  We were able to pray for each of them.  Misha, who is also with us, but did not go to Macedonia and is rooming with our bus driver, did not join in the debriefing.  We had a great buffet breakfast as part of our hotel room.  We will debrief until noon and drive to Panchevo where we have a meeting this evening with the Chinese church there. You can catch up on any missing items by going to http://visionchoir.blogspot.com