Returned from asia.....

This last week our Fall 2008 DTS teams returned back to maui from three different locations.
Borneo, Bangladesh, and Ch!na. They all had awesome stories to share about God moving in the world.

In Borneo they saw many people give their lives to the Lord as well as a few healings. One lady was completely mute and started talking again. Another lady was deaf AND mute and regained her hearing and could make sounds out of her mouth...but she hadn't heard words in so long she forgot what they sound like and how to speak! God is good, huh?

In Ch!na the team spent most of their time in the south east of Ch!na in a large city there doing lots of street ministry and just sharing the gospel with people. One of the main ways they could reach out to people in this closed country was by inviting them out to lunch at McDonalds and then just spending time with them and sharing with them why they were there in Ch!na. Six people gave their lives to the Lord during their time there, which is a really big deal in a place where it is not even legal to share the gospel!

In Bangladesh the team that went there spent a month at a Compassion International (the people who always have those feed the kids ads on t.v.) center working with children and showing God's love to them. They also got to share the gospel with alot of muslims as well as a witchdoctor. When they got to share with the witchdoctor, she let the team pray for her, although right after the team left her house she went outside to a shed with idols in it and was chanting and screaming so our team stood outside while she was doing that and continued praying.

Ephesians 6:12
12"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."
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It was encouraging to hear all the stories from the teams and always good to put back in to focus what we are doing here. Even if we aren't alway the ones that get to go to these places in the world we do our part in sending others. And it also gets me excited for the future and where God will take myself and Leah in the future.