(from someone on the field in Asia*)
We have had some encouragement in the last few days that we believe is due in large part to the prayers of God's people. Several weeks ago we lost a key person at the craft center, a local man. He is a very gifted man in terms of language skills and his knowledge of the business. He came to work for us over 2 years ago, and was offered a better paying job recently. Though we hated to lose him, we are starting to wonder if this was really the best for our ultimate purposes here. Though we have had some wonderful discussions with him about the Lord, he is a very devout follewer of the majority religion here. But we are very excited to report that since he has left, things seem to have broken loose here. All the other workers are asking for the Sword of the Spirit (Eph 6:17) and asking very good questions. One came up to me a few days ago and asked, for example, how he can be cleaned of his sin.
Sarah and Miriam have joined us from another developing country in this region, and have been particularly helpful as they have gone around visiting families. One of the men said to these two that he was living in darkness but now a light is shining in his mind as he reads the Word. He said that when he first met us, he knew there was something different about us--that our eyes were particularly different.
Please pray for these individuals who are searching, that they would find the One Who is drawing them near to Himself; and pray for those who are investing their lives to communicate His love and purposes in word and in deed to those who are living without knowledge of the assurance of forgiveness or understanding of our Father's love.
*Names, etc., have been adjusted
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