Chris came to Martelas to share with us and help debrief us. He first affirmed the group and our willingness to do whatever Jesus wanted us to do. The Lord honors those who are willing to sacrifice. He has seen lots of short term missions team and just so amazed how much God is doing in salvation and healing. He encouraged us to sit down with Pastors Donn and Dan and ask what we can do to help, especially the prayer ministry. Do prayer ministry every week, create an expectation. Persevere. Keep affirming others, especially those older in the church. Vision members need to wrestle with the theology of church. Healing does not need to be charismatic only. Church is making disciples. For Chris, it is bringing his emotions to Jesus. Too much head and not enough heart, especially in our personal time - more emotion with Jesus. Chris tries to spend an hour a day with God. It is a fight. Finally, trips like this reminds us that suffering is purposeful. Work hard to keep make the spirit of comfort from taking over your life. It is normal for Jesus to call his disciples into suffering. Christian character comes through suffering. Let Jesus lead. It is worth the pain.
We did our devotions from Daniel about the fiery furnace and then went to Red Familia for lunch and returned to Martelas to take a short nap and debrief the highlights of the tour for each of us. For some, it was the healing, others, the worship time, others God's faithfulness, quite diverse and yet beautiful in its totality of how God met us here. We ended the time thanking God and worshipping Him for about 20 minutes. 12 families of the youth here invited all 17 Vision kids to dinner in small groups. Elaine, Connie, Mei and I are inviting Chris and his 3 kids to dinner (Maggie had an appointment). Everybody came back between 10 and 10:30 in high spirits for being so loved by the people here. It began to rain heavily just after everyone got back and rained most of the night.
July 25 - Our last day here. The two weeks flew by incredibly fast. Breakfast is at 10 in the church so we started our devotions at about 8:30 on Elijah in I Kings 19. Everyone is better. Jason woke in the middle of the night and prayed when he heard noises outside but saw no one and felt God touch his stomach, then he fell asleep and woke up with his stomach well. We the went to the church to eat breakfast.
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