From Bill Petersen – September 13

It rains most every morning but usually stops by the time we get to the villages. Themrei picked me up and we went to Rakhamjote first. This was a village that the June team evangelized and it is one of Sanjay’s villages so we picked him up along the way. Here are some of the events of the day.

I shared the Gospel with a young woman that wasn’t home when our team came to her home in June. She had heard the story from her family and was anxious to hear it from me. She listened intently and then prayed to accept Jesus as her personal savior. We invited her to attend the training next week and she committed to being there.

We went to the home of a family that have been Christians for many years. A young girl (20 years old) married a Hindi man four years ago and they haven’t had any children yet. Her husband and in-laws blame the inability to conceive on her and her relationship with Jesus Christ. I asked her if she believed that God was in control of all things and she said yes. So I reminded her that based on that, she would have children when God decides the timing is right. Hard as it is, we need to pray and wait for His answer to our prayers.

Themrei then took us to the home of Ramu and Zanza. TACC had been there before and she was ready to accept Jesus, but he wanted to talk with his family first. His mother said that she had conceived, birthed and raised him and she didn’t want him to convert from Hindi while she was still alive. I asked if I could share the Gospel story with them and they consented. I could see that they were really paying attention to every panel on the cube, but when I asked if they were ready to pray – she was – he was not.

I asked him if he had known of any friends that died before their parents died. He answered yes. Then I asked if he were to die before his mother would he want to go to heaven or hell. He wanted to go to heaven and I told him that he wouldn’t go there without accepting Jesus. He then asked me to pray for him and his wife to have Jesus as Lord of their lives. They said that they would come to the discipleship training next week.

We went to many other homes and invited them to next week’s training. These have been incredible experiences and opportunities to lead families to Christ. Two more villages tomorrow and then we pick up the rest of the team on Saturday !!!