Today January 29th, I had a very interesting and productive conversation at our second site. We had four girls in our group, ages ranging from 15-16 years old. I shared a little of my testimony with them. I told them about hearing God speak to me. When I was done, and after the other presentations, they had some questions about prayer.  Showing them how it’s possible to pray directly to Jesus, I gave them a word picture.

I asked Gayleen (a fellow member in our small group) to be ‘God’ and I then stood a distance away from her. I was sinful man. (When doing the gospel bead presentation, we had talked a lot about sin.) I showed them the gap between God and man. Then I asked Kaylin (another member of our small group) to be ‘Jesus’ and stand between us. Kaylin placed one hand on my shoulder and the other on Gayleen’s shoulder. I explained that Jesus filled the gap between us and God, so that now we could go directly to Him.

My translator old me that they really liked that way of explaining and that they were thinking about it all.

They wanted to hear testimonies from Gayleen and Kaylin. Their testimonies like mine involved hearing God speak to them. After that they asked if they could hear God, too. They wanted to know if that was the only way to hear God speak. I think we tend to talk about God speaking to us and not realize how that might sound to others. I used the opportunity to talk about the ways God can talk to you. I especially talked about the Bible and then gave them the “More Than a Carpenter / Gospel of John” books.

Our interpreter said it was all very good and that they were really interested and they were excited to learn this new information.

Every trip is different and every site is unique, but this was a great opportunity to be salt and light; to plant and water and see it grow. I was really encouraged by this visit and really felt the presence of God and pray that He used us in a might way.  - Scotta M.