@MaryMamuzich Today I remembered the mini truck 'we drove together ' by faith ! Much safer than Tesla test drives!
The equipments and materials were used immediately for the Church planters training. The vehicle is used by the team extensively for traveling to rural areas.
Those who are wondering about the story; When severe travel restrictions were in place, through prayer a #BTJ team managed to send a vehicle loaded with scriptures, agriculture tools, construction tools, water pumps and some food materials to a training location 400 plus miles away from the base.
The results are echoing even today!
Chicken 🐔 for a rainy day ? These pictures are not convincing, true. As they don't portray the reality where #BTJ volunteers provided #Training and Day old chick's.
We don't have pictures to portray the daily suffering of women and children either. Major crime , majority of the villagers decided to follow Christ few years ago.
So no electricity or Drinking water!
Adding few more specific details will give out their location and add to their suffering.
The chicken #BTJ provided will provide nutrition to the children. A small additional income to the widow. An insurance for the family in crisis. #Food on the table.
Remember the poor (Jerusalem council to Apostles).
Discipling them in small groups is our priority, because we don't want them to be left out of that beautiful place with streets of gold; casteless, discrimination free, place without hunger, thirst and death!
https://backtojerusalem.com/product/free-the-six-lies-i-tell-at-mission-conferences-ebook/
Chapter 12
Lie #6: The Final Lie
The lie I tell because I have kind of believed
it my entire life until I moved to China and
started working with the underground house
church is that ministry MUST be a full-time paid
position.
As Christians in the West, we kind of feel—even
if we do not say it—that if you have a side job to
take care of your family while doing ministry it is
because you are not very good at ministry.
But Christian ministers should not be any different from regular people. We should all know
the joys of faking an illness and calling in sick to
get the day of of work. The misery of Monday
mornings should be shared by everyone. Pastors
are no exception.
In some ways, Christians have declared a war
on work, as if there were a law against hard labor. Unfortunately, pastors would need to have a
union to have such a law.
If we are in the ministry, we shun regular jobs.
Brother Yun and Uncle Tangs meetings resulted in Several prayer initiatives.
In two places 24 x 7 prayers continuing.
A 3rd place has 8 volunteers. New doors are opening in several provinces.
#BTJ
Please continue to pray for first generation believers. They face numerous challenges! While praying for the future generations of believers, Jesus prayed John 17 :I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.
Many of these new believers are the lone saved members of the family.
Recently a mother refused to entertain a discussion on marriage of her believer daughter as boy's family refused to serve 5 liters of liquor. 😪
Asia moves on bicycles ! Bicycle is an ordinary person's Car. Just like a Goat is equivalent to Cow for a poor family.
House Church leaders get high mileage on Love and fresh air filled in their bicycle tires. Goats provide milk for the children and an insurance policy or bank deposit at the time of crisis. (They sell the goats and encash them).
Smoking is injurious to health! Smoke from kitchen kills too!
#BTJ volunteers teach sustainable technologies to rural communities.
https://homesthetics.net/Rocket-stove-plans/
A team to highlight the prayer needs of 10/40 Window Nations.