Haha, okay I don't think there's such a word as Fungust but oh well! I just wanted it to rhyme with AUGUST :D Soo here's the mid-August update!! I'm so sorry I always have no photos, photos takes a million years to update here so maybe I'll just steal from Joanna :p [thanks joanna!]
We started August amazing with a Dili Youth Rally where Jeremy spoke at and had the song "I Believe" translated to Tetum just 15MINUTES before the service started to sing. It was really awesome and Ps Jeremy Seaward spoke about reaching the youths in Timor. We invited youths from all the Dili churches and we had an AMAZING AMAZING time there! God really moved in the youths and that was the service that I felt like it was the closest to our Edge services since I got here (: Jeremy and Saula even had a dance off which was probably the FUNNIEST thing I have EVER seen! [Anyone who wants to see the video can ask me privately buy I might be forever condemned because IT WAS SO FUNNY and they are very embarrassed!] Anyways, I think alot of the youths never attended a service like that and felt touched by God like that (: We have so so so many youths in Dili, if we can activate each and every single one of them, you can really imagine the impact it will have on Dili for Jesus!! (:
1st August - Youth Rally [Change Your Generation!]
Ps Jeremy preaching & Ps Israel translating.
Update on the works here!! Well, the place that we are working on in Lahane I can really see how God is moving in that community. Like how they've really accepted us into their homes and made us part of them (: Just last Saturday, one of the families had a funeral. Someone's wife had a miscarriage and lost their twins. They invited us into the house to see the babies [which they displayed on a table in house which I was quite taken aback by] and to eat and talk. It really was such a gesture that made me feel like they've accepted us as part of them to invite us to events that mean very much to them. Also, I've started discipling another girl called Martina whom I happened to meet on the same day and asked her if she would like me to disciple her. She immediately said okay and just last thursday we had our first discipling session and she accepted Christ! :D WOW :D For her I can really see that she really wants to learn more about the Word of God and she is excited about the things of Jesus!! :D So i'm really praying for her and please pray with me because I really believe she might be one of the leaders we are going to see being raised up! (:
Also, last Sunday I held my first connect group in that same village and I invited 3 of my students to come. Only 1 showed up but because I was playing on my guitar, a whole bunch of other kids came to join us too. So there was about 15 people in total, Praise God! I taught them a song that one of the missionaries wrote here in Tetum and my word, they loved it and caught on to it SO quickly! And when they started singing, I kid you not, that i felt such a strong and calming Presence of the Lord in that room that I couldn't wipe off the smile on my face (: It was such a beautiful presence (: And I managed to share abit on the Bible too and it was so well received I couldnt ask for a better 1st connect group! But I believe because the work is getting on so well, the Devil will be looking for ways to destroy it! It has not been an easy week for me to be honest in many ways and even for me, dreams have been extremely frightful. Joanna was just telling me that 2 nights ago she woke up finding me talking in my sleep and saying "I'm very scared..." over and over again. She got quite a shock and it scared me too just knowing that. Also, that place that I used to hold the connect group now they used to let some guy live in it so I couldnt use the room. That is not a good thing because the other alternatives are in the open outside the house of a man who is a strong Catholic and has a very influential role in the Catholic church. And I'm not about to antagonize him as yet because recently the government has been very strict about clamping down on people and NGOs and use the guise of social works to preach the gospel. So we just need to be wise on these things! So please please keep us in prayer!! :D It would be very much appreciated :D
So, I miss you guys still very much. God is really teaching me so much here that makes it really challenging sometimes that I miss home so much :( But at the same time, I love what's happening here and am very excited to see what God is doing here (: Miss and love you guys much! Till the next update! :D
