it's amazing how God often has a change of plans quite often than we do..... As some of you read from my last blog, the majority of us believed we were going to be working with 'LOVE ACTS': the ministry that works with teaching english to the girls in the bars in the red light district. Our second day here, after a day of rest we were told more about the ministry and were told to pick between 'Love Acts' and 'WonGen' the university ministry that they are involved in.
The heart of this ministry is to show Jesus through their actions and through loving people, through building relationships and serving. Several other of these ministries are based on 'prevention' (some of the girls in the university are involved in prostituion at some point short term for the sole purpose of making money, for 3/4 hours a week.) In the building we stay in is a coffeeshop which is directly across from the university, I was constantly reminded of the atmosphere of the coffee shop back home and how much i adore it and what it did for me.
We were told to pray and ask which ministry to do.... and God convictingly told me 'WonGen' the university one. God spoke to me and showed me how i needed to be there and not apart of Love Acts. Our team may still have the opportunity to go to the slums, and to go to the red light district. .
On Monday & Weds nights we help to teach english, and during the days we go to the university to find people and start conversations/try to build relationships with them and hang out with them 'outside of school.'
It is coming slowly, we have only been doing this for a few days now so i cant really describe 'God did THIS!' type of newsletter.... It feels weird that i am doing this type of ministry rather than LOVE ACTS, but i know there is a reason for it. So i just have to listen to God and know that he knows what i am doing.
While we are here, it is about seed planting... we may never see the fruit. But the fact is there WILL be fruit someday and that is a beautiful thing. God WANTS his kids and he wants this nation, he loves them just like he loves any other country....God is preparing GREAT things
and i know that our work is not in vain.
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