June 2016

The school year is coming to a close. I will be in the US for 6 weeks this summer, which is the longest I have been back in a while. I am really looking forward to my time there. 

God is working in so many lives right now, it’s incredible. As I mentioned a few months ago, I had a girl from the senior class pray with me at Eurocon, she was so broken but her life has really been changed since then. I think this opened up doors in the rest of the senior class…

When I first moved here there was a student in 9th grade who was just different. She was so sweet and kind but she was not a believer. She is Chinese and her parents had told her that if she became a Christian in GGIS that they would disown her. I have been praying for that girl for four years now and a couple weeks ago she accepted Christ as her Savior. I am ecstatic. I had a great conversation with her about what it means to be saved, how no one can ever take it from you, and about getting to know God through church, prayer, and the Bible. She had so many questions and was so sincere. She has had Bible class every day so she already knew so much about Christianity, but it was cool to actually see it become real to her in her final days at GGIS. I am thankful to have been the one to pray with her and see the fruit of my prayers after all this time.

Shortly after that girl prayed with me, another girl emailed me and asked if we could meet. We spent an entire hour going over what it means to be saved. She has resisted Christianity so much since she first came here two years ago, but God wore her down. Right there in my classroom, she also prayed to accept Christ. 

These three girls, plus Feng, who I asked you to pray for last year, and who was the first of them to get saved, are going to sing a worship song at our school baptism this Friday. I am so proud of these four. I know God is going to work mightily in their lives, and I am so proud that their time in GGIS was not just fleeting but rather had eternal meaning.

Lastly, there is another Chinese senior named Cheng. He’s a really funny guy and I had some great conversations with him throughout the year. He has been in GGIS for five years but he kept resisting. His biggest fear was that he would have to start acting right and being a “good boy” for God. After hearing this excuse over and over again, I kind of just told him that that was a terrible reason to not believe in Jesus. God doesn’t care what you do, He loves you for who you are. You don’t have to clean up your act before coming to Him, in fact, you can’t. You simply have to believe. I was a little forceful as I explained this to him, but he needed to hear it and God used it. I could see the love of Christ making sense to him in that moment. He didn’t have to live up to some standard or change his life to come to God, he just had to believe. And he did. 

That’s it. This is why I’m here. Four more seniors are leaving GGIS as Christians. I think there is only one girl in that class who didn’t get saved in her time here. Pray for her. God will work in her life.

My friends Tim and Myriah had their last adoption visit the other day and are ready for a child any time now. Please pray that God gives them the perfect baby in His time, and also that He gives them patience as they continue to wait.

Also, please pray for me, I have had some pain in my shoulder lately but all the tests keep coming back negative.