This adventure of ours...

the 29 days has come to an end. I sit on my bed in Siliguri, India and reflect on the past 29 days and how much the Lord moved I am amazed. Nepal has absolutely stolen my heart once again and is one step closer to revival. It's a matter of time before the entire nation declares Jesus as Lord and everyone greets each other with "jai messiah" (how Christians greet each other).

So here is some of the things that happened.... 

When we got to Nepal we walked into family, a family that is so hungry for Jesus and to see him move.  We realized that there was no time to waste so we hit the ground running. our first day in Nepal we went to Swinenboo (a Buddhist Monkey Temple) and on our way up the stairs to the Stupa we encounter a leper, we begin to share the gospel with him and he gets encountered by the love of God and starts to weep and accepts Jesus into  his heart. Then we walk a little further and encounter a deaf beggar and start to pray for him, within seconds of praying he hears after many years of being deaf and we share the love of Jesus with him and he begins to declare Jesus as His Savior. 

Then we go to the banquet house which is a place that Iris Ministries feeds the homeless and shows them the love of Jesus! The Lord brings 2 girls who are pregnant in and shortly find out that they want to get abortions, which is free and recommended in Nepal, and they are looking for help. So I got to sit down with them and tell them my mothers story about having me at such a young age and how afraid she was and didn't know how to do it and how the love of jesus encountered her and comforted her. That Jesus is the only reason that she got through that time and how she was so young and so scared but she did it and because she decided to turn to the Lord I got to sit and talk with them. Through the conversation and telling the gospel they decided that they want to know the Lord and not have abortions and get help from us. Since that day we have put them in contact with one of the long term missionaries and the girls have been going to the Iris Church every week.

Now another thing we did was hang out with some kids, who I can't call orphans because they know who their Daddy is, in the Iris Children's Home. They teach me so much about the heart of the Father and what selfless love in and how to walk in Thanksgiving at every moment. That was one of my favorite things to do was just to hang out and cook, hula hoop, sing weird songs, dance, do homework and milk cows. Life was never dull when we were there. These kids actually have a relationship with the Father and truly know who their dad is and how much he loves them and desires them. it is truly a beautiful thing.

This one was real wild and so God. Tibet. God spoke Tibet through a dream and made it happen so perfectly. So a crew of 5, 3 from my team, 1 Nepali, and one Iris friend. Now, Tibet is a closed nation so we knew we had to be careful with ministry so that we did not get kicked out or get our guide in trouble. Right when we got there though the Lord opened the door for ministry. The night before we left we prayed about what to bring in and we felt gospel tracts and thats what we packed, we felt the Lord said don't hide them, and I felt not to bring them. We get to the border they dont open to pockets to one of the backpacks that they were in, then the next backpack looks in but lifts a shirt and thats it, my bag they dig through and search pretty throughly, the last backpack pulls out the tracts...looks at them, and then puts them back in the bag! WILD! So we are through and ministry starts right away. We start to hand out tracts to everyone we feel led to and started having people running after our van to get tracts as we pass them secretly out the window of our van! Then get to tell our guide about Jesus and he tells us that he has been searching, and pray for him and he tells us that he feels something different with us and feels like he can really trust us. That is only some of the stuff...the trip was wild and so good!

The Crew

This is Tibet

I rode a Yak

To end our time we went on a week long trek to the Northeast and went to 4 different villages. The Lord did amazing things and we got to encourage local believers and drink tons of tea and there were many times that the enemy tries to take us out but it never worked the Lord moved and Jesus received the glory! We trekked to India and now we are in Siliguri hanging out for 2 days before we head to Darjeeling. It has been a wild journey and will be continue to be on this adventure of ours.