A Time to Sow and a Time to Reap
I want to ask you to pray for three groups of people specifically that they will come to know Christ by faith.
First is our Sunday morning Outreach Bible Study group. This past week, we had our last session of our short term study this week. I am so thankful for the partnership we have in the Gospel with our Pastor, Paul Lu and his wife Faith.
Pastor Paul came to the class for a few minutes to share the Gospel in Chinese and ask the class to respond in faith to Christ's call to believe the Gospel. After class, we were able to visit with several of the people and discovered they are on the precipice of trusting in Christ - we are following up with them this week to encourage them and see what remains between them and trusting in Jesus. Blaze, Sophie, JJ & Dalina, Greg and his two sons. So many others. God knows them all.
Pictured Below - Two weeks ago, Michael Belch, one of the members of Taichung International Fellowship was able to help me teach the class! We are beginning to find ways for these great fellow expatriates to become involved in ministry here in the community and in our church!
Second, this past week, the OKBU team and our group were able to go and meet with a group of students who are here from mainland China for one semester. This is a rule imposed by the Chinese government. They will be returning to China in just a couple of weeks. This group was started by some of our fellow missionaries who went to the states these past few weeks to celebrate the marriage of one of their sons. We were able to fill in for them this week.
Pictured Below - During these two special days, we were able to have some really intense interactions with these very inquisitive students, including a very direct and clear Gospel presentation. It is likely we won't see them again, so pray that God will finish the work He started. 
Third, we took a special trip this past week with four students from ChangHua University. We were able to spend two whole days sowing into their lives. Lynn, Ted, Ignatius and Candy. There were many intentional talks and opportunities to share the Gospel over these two days. For three of them, it was their first interaction with us. One of them was from my Thursday afternoon Bible study. We will be following up again with them in a few weeks to start the reaping process.
Pictured Below - here we are at the start of our journey!
From Left to Right (Ted, Brian, Lynn, Candy on the front row & Ignatius is the third from the right)
Fourth, right now, the OKBU team is up in the mountains of Taiwan spending time helping a rural school of about 50 elementary students for three days. I specifically recruited three of the students from the National Teacher's University to go along as their translators to get some focused time with them. Eragon, Jim and Sophie are there spending time surrounded by this special team. Every day, they are reading the Bible together and talking about what it means and also having lots of conversations about what following Jesus looks like.
Pictured below - Top left Eragon, Top Center, Jim, Front Right, Sophie.
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