We arrived in the village knowing only 1 beli.ver of J.s.s; we left the village knowing 3 beli.vers of J.s.s….
The school house was loud, filled with the many voices of small children singing a song about J.s.s. The sound of their singing reaching out to the ears of both young and old women, drawing them toward the school house. The pounding and sifting of grain stopped momentarily as the women were curious to see what was taking place in the school house. As the women came to join us, a young woman with a small baby took a sit listening intently. Slowly, the women started to leave one by one, as they had more pounding and sifting of their grain to store; however, the young women with a small baby continued to sit there listening intently and even participating in the singing. After 2 hours of singing and telling 2 stories from Father’s W0rd we dismissed the children.
As the children were leaving the school house, I began to speak to the young woman with the small baby. H3lene introduced herself to the team and told us she was a believer of J.s.s. She told us that her husband and she had recently moved into the village looking for work! They hadn’t meet S@li (a beli.ver) and thought they were the only beli.vers living in the village.
As it was approaching lunch time, H3lene had to return home to fix lunch and the team began to walk in the village greeting and visiting the people. As time allowed, the team was able to find where H3lene lived and took the opportunity to sit and visit with her. H3lene shared with them her struggles to living in a village, not knowing many people and not able to find work. H3lene also shared with the time that they do not have much food to eat because they do not have money to buy it. The team was able to encourage her and pr@y with her right then, believing that Father would provide work for them. As the team was ready to leave H3lene told them that they could not have the road. H3lene had sent somebody to go buy tea and sugar to honor her guests for spending time with her. The little money that her family had, she wanted to treat her guests with an M@lian tradition of tea.
As the team made its way back to the school house for lunch, we had heard all the struggles that H3lene and her husband are currently going through. We then began to share with P. D@o that there was a new family of believers in the village and also asked him to pr@y for them, for they do not have work and are struggling to live here. Immediately, P. D@o said “They can work for me…I need help harvesting my rice fields!” Father was already beginning to provide work for this family and showing us an answer to our pr@yers.
For one last time we visited the family, introduced them to S@li and pr@yed with them. We give thanks to Father for showing us to this family of beli.vers and all the opportunites we had to spend with them.
Please pr@y for H3lene, her husband and their child! Pr@y for them to see Father in H1s provision of work, food and a family of beli.vers.
As the children were leaving the school house, I began to speak to the young woman with the small baby. H3lene introduced herself to the team and told us she was a believer of J.s.s. She told us that her husband and she had recently moved into the village looking for work! They hadn’t meet S@li (a beli.ver) and thought they were the only beli.vers living in the village.