Greetings from to you all from Central Asia. I have been here since the first week of November and am really enjoying the people and learning the culture and language. It has taken a long time for me to post a new blog because the connection speed is quite slow in our location. Since arriving I've been able to serve the NGO I'm working with by starting a conversational English class and am also helping out with another program doing athletic activities. I have also started learning the local language and have been able to share a lot about our LORD with my language tutor as she is not a follower of Jesus and seems to have a strong loyalty to her own faith. The people here are definitely hospitable and very community minded but are struggling to make it as they have one of the lowest GDP's in the world and are recovering from the disasterous effects of war. Please pray with me for this nation and for the Church here. She is struggling to find her identity in a post-Soviet Central Asian world. The evidence of the Fall stains many parts of this part of the world but God is doing something special and new.
As the last of the leaves fall to the ground, remember what we are waiting for..."Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any curse." -John the ApostleTears came to my eyes and my hope was renewed as I read this last statement and then I read on...
"Behold , I am coming soon!" -Jesus
After the promise of Heaven we are told to pray like this, "...Thy Kingdom Come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven..."
Check out this link, "The audacity of hope"
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