Kathmandu, Nepal...

I've seen another Christmas and embarked on a new year. Happy new year by the way. It's been amazing to come along side our contacts here and work with the local church leaders. We have been in Kathmandu for a little over 3 weeks. It's going by so quick. There is a lot of confusion about God here due to the prevalent influence of Hinduism. You can see its affects in the culture whether it be the driving, the packed vehicles, or the confusion of what to do in life. In the midst of this chaos God is bring order to people's hearts and bringing them to Himself. We have the privilege to be apart of this ever day. Hopefully the following description will give you a good picture of what our life looks like and the means God is using us by here.

Everyday we wake up, in the chilly weather, to a warm cup of milk tea. As I sit down eventually the Bible gets cracked open for awhile before breakfast (usually eggs and toast) is ready around 9am. Then we meet around 10am as a team till about 11:30am. This usually consist of listening to a Mark Driscoll sermon on video, but sometimes we get taught by Robby (the contact). Then conversation about the sermon proceeds. Then a morning break follows until about 1pm, give or take an hour, and lunch is ready. After lunch we get ready to go out and distribute Bibles and the gospel. We pack roughly 30 each in our backpacks and head out on the streets of Kathmandu. At any given moment we are walking up to people asking them if they want the Bible as a gift. Usually a couple questions get asked, answered and eventually culminates in asking if we can share about God and what he says in the Bible. Then we get shut down and move on or they say okay (usually this is the case) and we proceed to share the gospel in a couple of minutes. Then the challenge to turn to Jesus is given and at this point most just say thanks and go on their way, but many have said they want to turn to Jesus and be saved. We give out Bibles and share the gospel till around 4pm and head back home. The rest of the night includes dinner, reading, talking, playing cards and anything else till we are ready to go to bed.

It's such a blessing to be apart of this. Please pray that this would be a genuine repentance and turning to Jesus by these people. That they would get connected in a local church and know other believers. Also that the people we gave Bibles out to would read it and that God would water the seeds planted and bring them to himself.

I will be writing again soon...