It has been awhile since I wrote to you all! Nothing really big has happened lately. We are trying to plan for the next year. We are finding it a little difficult though because we don't have many children to start with. It seems like that coming to church on Sunday is intimidating to people here. It's just not very popular. We have on an average 5 children that come to Junior Church. Sometimes it's not even that many. We are finding that more parents will bring their children to the church for a few hours on a Saturday. For the last Saturday Special we had 13 children, which is AWESOME!! We are thinking that we may do the Saturday Specials more often. Last time a Muslim mom brought her 2 sons and asked us if we could do this more often because she liked having something for her son's to do when they aren't in school. She stayed with them the whole time, during the story and everything. It was very encouraging. I wish there were a way to get more children in but for now all we can do is pray that God will bring them! So please be praying with us!!! Pray that we will be able to come up with some creative idea's for events that we can do with the children! And if you have any ideas we will take them. haha
I have some other news that I would like to share with you all. I know I have told you all about Philip, the pastors son. We got into a really good conversation with him last night and we ask that you all pray really hard for him!! He is really heavy on my heart and I would so love to see him come to know the Lord! It is really hard to be a Christian here because it's just not the cool thing to be, especially for teenagers. He told us yesterday that on his school there is maybe 20 Christians of 1200 students (maybe that helps you see what I mean by it being hard to be a Christian here.) We are just praying that he would see how important this decision really is. And that he would learn what it means to be a man of God. Please be praying for him!!
I suppose that is all for now. Thank you to everyone who is helping to support us by praying for us and sending money to AIPM! We wouldn't be able to stay here without you!! We love and miss you all! We will write again soon!
