Reaching Out to New Villages

The Macedonia Call 

About a year ago, a man came to our Christmas outreach program in one of our village churches. He traveled 65Km on his old motorbike on a bumpy road just to meet us. During the worship service, this man listened very carefully to the message and paid attention to all programs.
As usual, we had a small Christmas lunch party for all our people. After lunch, the man came to me and said, "pastor, will you come to my village to teach our people about God?" I asked him why he want his people to know God. He said he have heard how God works among the villagers where our churches are and he wants his people to know God be blessed. After long talk, we send him off with prayer and promised that we will go to his village. 

After spending time prayer for a few months. we made our first visit to the new village. To our surprise, about 150 people were waiting for us there. I did a short Bible studies with them and then broke into groups. Each one of us on the team went to each group and shared the gospel with them. At the end of the sharing, 16 of them prayed to accept Christ. 
We did not only shared the gospel with them, we prayed for the sick as well. We left the village late afternoon promising them that we will be back sometimes soon. 

After two weeks, we went back again. This time 260 people, children, youth and adults came to the meeting. We taught the children and youth some songs and they really enjoyed the singing. At the end of the program, I asked if anyone want to invite Jesus into their lives, guess what? 65 of them prayed to accept Jesus. We praise God for their lives. 

We are now going there regularly. We hope more villagers will come to Christ. 

Oh! I forgot something! We don't have a place for our meeting. No houses are big enough to hold the meeting for a big crowd. The man that came to us to invite us to his village is a village chief. He let us use a wooden building which was built for Buddhist ceremony to meet and preach the gospel to his people. That's amazing how God work!!! Glory to His name!!!