God continues to move people and events for His glory. The following accounts are witnesses to this truth.
Ten years ago the president of a large Japanese construction company openly ridiculed religious people as being “wimps who couldn’t handle life.” When his company went bankrupt, he became open to reading the Bible and to meeting Christians - and eventually to God himself. Today, his witness of God is drawing other Japanese men and women to knowing God themselves.
Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Tunisia are examples of Mideast countries facing unrest and instability. One Christian leader encourages the western church by pointing out that - “God has his men and women already strategically positioned on the ground...they’re very few, but they’re still there. We need to pray that God gives them a holy strength and a holy boldness to continue living out their faith, reaching others in a relevant, practical way.”
Another leader praises God for the attention that the entire world is currently focusing on the Mideast and that as a result, Christians around the world are praying for them. Meanwhile, as refugees from the Mideast are fleeing the violence in their home country, when they come to the US they are more ready to “meet Christ.”
In yet another account of how God is moving, a congregation in Toronto, Canada listened to a Persion Pastor share his testimony about his life as a Bedouin in Sudan - about his religious training, his conversion, the violent persecution he was delivered from, and of the hope in God which preserved him.
Dear GBC family, here is an encouragement to you - pray beyond the immediate to what God is doing into the future. Pray boldly, without fear, asking God to bring people to Himself. And pray that we as a church family will see what God is doing and understand how we can be a part of His work in SE Connecticut. Pray that ten years from now, we will see what God has done from what we thought was disaster.
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