Dear Praying Friends,<\/p>\n
A couple of weeks ago, Jeremiah and I listened to an audio sermon.\u00a0 In it, the pastor asked, \u201cWho is Jesus discipling through you?\u00a0 And who are they discipling?\u201d\u00a0 The question stuck with us as we considered the kinds of relationships we have with different ones in the village, and we got excited as we thought of the new disciples the believers here may be working with within a few short months!\u00a0<\/p>\n
With Scriptures\u2019 mandate to go forth making disciples in mind, and a tremendous heart to be obedient to the Word, 14 believers from our home village along with Jeremiah and Ralf hiked the mountainous trail for 3 hours to reach a small village in the Dinangat tribe.\u00a0 Here, together, they would seek to determine whether or not this village would like us to go up there and begin teaching them God\u2019s Story in their own language.\u00a0 As this group of travellers (including some women carrying babies and large heavy string bags with supplies slung over their heads!) approached the village, what seemed like the entire village was literally lined up at the entrance ready to greet this caravan with warm handshakes.\u00a0 After a while of explaining to the village how and when we would like to come teach them (and that the initial teaching will be 3 days a week for 3 \u00bd months, and that the teachers would need a place built for them to sleep), the answer was a resounding, \u201cYes!\u00a0 Come!\u00a0 We have been waiting and want to hear this Talk!\u201d\u00a0 We are praising the Lord for this open door, and trusting that the Lord will use this outreach to bring many souls to Himself and strengthen the faith of the believers in the home village!<\/p>\n
\u00a0So on January 18th<\/sup> of 2010, Lord willing, we will begin teaching God\u2019s Word in the outreach village!\u00a0 Much has been done already, but there are many preparations yet to be made.\u00a0 We had anticipated going to a different village at first, the larger and more influential village\u00a0in Dinangat.\u00a0 However, some of the leaders there remain seeped in the other religion that has opposed us in the past, and for now, unfortunately, remain suspicious. Yet there are many from that village that desire to hear the Truth, and so our hope and prayer is that they would travel to\u00a0the outreach village\u00a0to listen to His Word.<\/p>\n \u00a0Along with 5 Dinangat teachers helping us with the Bible teaching, we will be assisting the believers here in launching a literacy program over in the outreach village at the same time.\u00a0 This is a HUGE undertaking for this young church (probably bigger than they understand at this point!)\u00a0 Please pray for strength and wisdom for these teachers and their families, as well as grace for the church as a whole in the home village.\u00a0 The Bible teachers will be gone from home for 3 days out of the week, and the literacy teachers will be gone for 4.\u00a0 Pray that the church would unite together in helping to make sure that these families that will stay behind are helped and cared for.\u00a0 There are children to be looked after, garden work to be done (and their gardens are usually on the other side of the mountain!) fire wood to be gathered, pigs and chickens to be looked after and food gathered for them, and much more.\u00a0 We are praying now and would ask you to join us in praying that the Lord would be preparing hearts in the outreach village to receive and believe the Truth of His Gospel Message!<\/p>\n Would you please also be in prayer for the situation of the community school here in the home village?\u00a0 You may remember that a couple of months ago their main office building with all their text books was burned down.\u00a0 The PNG government has designated funds to rebuild the office as well as a couple of new classroom houses for the village, and are offering to pay the villagers to get these structures built so that school can resume.\u00a0 This would be a wonderful thing for the students as well as a great opportunity for the men here to make some money.\u00a0 However, the very \u2018uncertain\u2019 talk is that this project will begin in January, which would make an outreach impossible since it would affect all of the Dinangat villages.\u00a0 Yet, God knows the plans He has for His people here, and we are confident that He will build His church!\u00a0 Please pray for wisdom for all of us, and that through all of the planning and preparing, the Lord would strengthen us all in our knowledge of and love for Him, and that we would seek to glorify our gracious and merciful God in all that we do!<\/p>\n As Thanksgiving approaches, we want you to know that we are exceedingly thankful for YOU who have faithfully stood with us through the years with your prayers and support in behalf of our family and the Dinangat church!\u00a0 Please don\u2019t stop!\u00a0 The enemy has made it clear already that he has taken notice of the Dinangat church and is not happy with the abundant life they are now living! And we continue to pray for you, that you also would continue to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord!<\/p>\n \u00a0For His Glory,\u00a0<\/p>\n Jeremiah, April, Jordan, Judah and Alayna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Praying Friends, A couple of weeks ago, Jeremiah and I listened to an audio sermon.\u00a0 In it, the pastor asked, \u201cWho is Jesus discipling through you?\u00a0 And who are they discipling?\u201d\u00a0 The question stuck with us as we considered the kinds of relationships we have with different ones in the village, and we got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremiah-markley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}