Wow ! What a month. Praise God. We asked for intentional prayer for new believers and baptisms. Father poured out His love.
We were blessed to be at the Joyful Hope English Camp in the village of Taimali with American and Taiwanese brothers and sisters for one week. We saw over 70 people come to faith in Jesus, with over 16 baptisms. After my whole class prayed to believe in Jesus I was able to visit some of their families, share my testimony and the gospel. One whole family prayed to believe. Please pray for the students that believed, but were not allowed by their parents to be baptized. They face a difficult situation at home. I was told that many times they are beaten. Please pray that we can do follow up training there.
I had the opportunity to share my testimony and the gospel with new people visiting an English Bible Study called ORTV in Kaohsiung. I went there to help out because some of our team were away. Over 25 of the new people there prayed to believe in Jesus. Some of them even came to my Saturday T4T training the following week. Please pray for them to continue training with us or to join a local church.
We also had 3 new believers at our Saturday training in Nanzih. Please pray for them to continue to be obedient and be baptized
Our Tuesday T4T training in our home I had the privilege to baptize Ben. Then Ben baptized his wife Joan. Next week, Leticia and Penny want to be baptized. Please pray for this.
You prayed for intentional new believers and baptisms the past two months. Please continue because something wonderful is happening here. Please pray this month with specific intention for these new baptized believers to be new churches and to start new churches. Please ask Father to give them the boldness and the desire to do this themselves.
Those of you who know Peace and Lucy from our city in China (Lucy, a new baptized believer Brenda and I shared the gospel with and trained in T4T, and Peace a local TSPM pastor and hc leader who also trained in T4T) who both separately started many hc.s, were introduced to each other by Brenda, are now engaged to be married. Please pray for their protection from persecution.
As Brenda and I have learned from China when the harvest is great there is a cost. As soon as we were getting on the train from Taimali last week in great joy over the victories there, Brenda and I received an urgent email from our family back home. Please pray for our daughters. Satan knows the most effective ways to attack.
Love,
Jim
