As some of you know, Janine is district pastor over 5 small groups. The following is a amazing example of how God is moving in her district...
(Janine speaking) Since our last newsletter, 11 people in my ministry district have been baptized, including eight members of the Wang family. This is a wonderful example of how God answers prayer. The Wangs had several relatives in the United States who faithfully prayed for them. When my small group members and I arrived at the Wang house, the elderly Mr Wang was expectantly waiting for them on the sidewalk. He and his entire family wanted to accept Jesus Christ as the Lord of their family. With Mr. Wang's encouragement, we dismantled a large ancestor alter and disposed of all the household idols and paraphenalia including some made of jade and 18 caret gold. We helped Mr. Wang throw them into the public dumpster. He was so happy to get rid of the idols, he didn't even care that he was throwing gold away.
(Barth) As we have explained in the past, the church group we work with here, (the Muyi Church) consists of two large congregations in the City of Taichung and several smaller church plants, mostly in outlying areas such as Caotun, Taiping, HuWei and PuYan. These smaller churches are in rural and seaside areas where people are more superstitious and idol worship is deeply entrenched. Barth and Janine travel to these churches regularly preaching and praying for the people. Thank God each of these smaller churches are experiencing slow, but steady, growth.
Barth has also recently held worship seminars and piano classes at Puyan and the Chongming city church. (see video for pictures)
God bless!
Barth and Janine
No comments:
Post a Comment