I am sitting here feeling quiet and a bit sad. So many leaders have left and the majority will be gone by morning tomorrow. We had a beautiful closing celebration. God is good. Praise the Lord. John Sankara Rao is here with me now and praises the Lord and thanks Him for your prayers. Every member of the meeting left with great joy and vision. They are looking forward to see the great things in and through their churches and personal lives. Thank you so much for your prayers, which mean so much.
We were encouraged today to serve as Jesus did. There was a time to welcome BREY as a member program, followed by a song by the brothers from N-pal. We prayed for the Members, followed by a song in Indonesian. Prayer for facilitator team (personally a very powerful time for me) followed by a song in which language??? Can't remember right now... After each thanks to God and prayer, we sang a worship song. B-rm-se, Hindi, Telegu, Penjabi, Ind-nesian, N-pali, Swahili. What a wonderful picture of what heaven will be like :) Talk about a beautiful party. We sang, danced, prayed, praised, cried, and rejoiced together! Some of us were presented with beautiful flower garland (like a lei) to wear as a thank you for our work and service. Ernesto made me cry, then Galen made me cry. Leaky tear ducts again. :)
I think people were really blessed. As a team, we have a lot of growing to do, we will learn much from this first regional meeting of how to improve, things we can do better.
But God showed up, unity was thick once again. So many cultures, languages connecting well and loving each other. The times of confession and forgiveness were such a blessing. Many confessed having less than wonderful feelings toward India and Indians, and that by being here, their whole mindset of the people and place has changed. That really blessed me.
My mind is racing right now, and we have a mentor meeting to get to, so I will sign off for now.
Please pray as we head into a full day of members meetings tomorrow and then fly to Nairobi tomorrow night (2:40am). This is a tight schedule and I have a new respect for Galen...
But once again, we THANK you abundandtly for your prayers. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We realize we could not have accomplished this without you.
Blessings,
Jenny
We were encouraged today to serve as Jesus did. There was a time to welcome BREY as a member program, followed by a song by the brothers from N-pal. We prayed for the Members, followed by a song in Indonesian. Prayer for facilitator team (personally a very powerful time for me) followed by a song in which language??? Can't remember right now... After each thanks to God and prayer, we sang a worship song. B-rm-se, Hindi, Telegu, Penjabi, Ind-nesian, N-pali, Swahili. What a wonderful picture of what heaven will be like :) Talk about a beautiful party. We sang, danced, prayed, praised, cried, and rejoiced together! Some of us were presented with beautiful flower garland (like a lei) to wear as a thank you for our work and service. Ernesto made me cry, then Galen made me cry. Leaky tear ducts again. :)
I think people were really blessed. As a team, we have a lot of growing to do, we will learn much from this first regional meeting of how to improve, things we can do better.
But God showed up, unity was thick once again. So many cultures, languages connecting well and loving each other. The times of confession and forgiveness were such a blessing. Many confessed having less than wonderful feelings toward India and Indians, and that by being here, their whole mindset of the people and place has changed. That really blessed me.
My mind is racing right now, and we have a mentor meeting to get to, so I will sign off for now.
Please pray as we head into a full day of members meetings tomorrow and then fly to Nairobi tomorrow night (2:40am). This is a tight schedule and I have a new respect for Galen...
But once again, we THANK you abundandtly for your prayers. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We realize we could not have accomplished this without you.
Blessings,
Jenny
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