After sharing the Evangecube story and discussing his questions, I told him that his questions about which church family to join was only relevant after he became a child of God by faith in Christ. In response, Kendy and GG said they believed what the Bible said and wanted to trust in Christ. We prayed with them and welcomed them as a new brother and sister in God’s family.

Sunday, we were excited to see Kendy and GG come to New Life Bilingual Church. I asked them who was working at their beauty shop and he said, “No one, we decided to close it early to come to church.” Please pray for these new believers as they begin their walk with Christ. They are the first believers in their families.

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

However, she kept coming back.

She also was reading the New Testament I gave her and said she was praying because it gave her such peace!  On the 4th week, I came prepared to share about Jesus’ Death, Burial and Resurrection and give an opportunity to believe.  Li-Li was the only one to show up that day.  This disappointed me because it was such an important lesson and I wanted the other teachers to hear it too.

But God knew that Li-Li needed some one-on-one time.  She came into class and immediately said reading the Bible had touched her.  She said “I believe it.”

I was so excited! All this before I had even begun to teach the lesson! I could tell that the Holy Spirit was working.

I decided to read through the Gospel Bridge booklet with her. As we read through it I would ask her what she thought.  She kept saying “I believe this.”

However, when it came to the part where she had to make a personal decision she said she could not do so.  She then proceeded to share how angry her husband, her mother, and her mother-in-law would be if she became a Christian.

I shared with her how God can work in their lives, but she was adamant. “It is impossible” she kept saying.

I shared with her how important this decison was for her to make, but she just kept saying she could not.

Would you please  join me in praying for her and her family?  Pray that the Holy Spirit will continue to draw Li-Li to Himself and that Satan’s power-hold on the other family members will be shattered.

We know that “nothing is impossible with God!”

~Carolyn Miller

This I learned from Amy:

 

OH~~~ we have a very specially ＂Luckly Thing＂ and you can hang up it just like a necklace, AND it can protect you safe & well this year, moreover it’s smell fragrant.

I call that ＂fragrant package＂in English, because I don’t know how to say that word,HA~

This I learned from Tim:

Some say if we can stand the egg upright at noon on the day of Dragon Boat Festival, it would bring us good luck for the rest of the year.

No one ever said teachers knew it all. I learn so much from my students!!

On a more serious note though, do you see a pattern here? My students, my neighbors, my dear friends trust in “horses and chariots” (Psalm 20:7), they trust in auspicious items, and desire lucky things and lives.

Would you please join me in praying for them they too will place their trust in the name of the Lord our God? Please ask God to open their eyes to the truth that auspicious stuff has no power to make lucky things happen.

The Most High God is an all-powerful, all-loving God, and we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28). May they one day soon know it too!!

~ amanda n. parmley

So, yeah, I got to stumble through the story with the few words that I know and was helped by another Taiwanese friend and our friend Ruth who is pretty good at making things work with the little Chinese she knows. So, anyhow, it made me really desire to learn Chinese and actually be able to share the whole story of Jesus and bring hope to these people who have never heard the story of Jesus and are willing to listen.

So, if you would be praying for me as I continue to study Chinese and seek God in the direction of my future study and even location after this year.

Julie

Did you hear it: “gwa ay jew gwa bay ging by nee“?

It means: “My Lord, I come to praise you!”

This video is actually of the group of Taiwanese Believers from Taipei who came down south to share the Gospel in Kaohsiung County alongside Grace Family Church for three days.

Taiwanese sharing Good News with other Taiwanese in Taiwanese–How awesome is that!?!?

Ging by nee, Lord!!

in joy,
amanda

We will be sharing the Good News with friends of church members on Saturday and then worshipping in the park on Sunday. Please pray for God to be glorified this weekend and for Him to awaken dead hearts as they hear the Gospel.

Thank you so much for praying!! Blessings!

in joy,
amanda

Ever since then we have have enjoyed getting to know her and her friend Mink. We asked them if they would be interested in learning about the Bible more and they both said yes and also asked some of their classmates to join in. This last friday we met for the first time at their University NKFUST in Nanzih about 45 minutes away. We went through the story of creation. It was very encouraging to see their interest and to hear their questions and insight.

As we continue to meet with them please keep these girls in your prayers, that a relationship with their beautiful creator becomes simply irresistable.

Rachel
(taken from a post on her shared blog Mission Taiwan)