Outreach overview

After being back from outreach, I've had time to think over the things that have happened on the field.

The sights and sounds of India through China will definitely not be forgotten.  But most of all the friends we made along the way will surely not be forgotten.  This was my first time entering into the 10/40 window and doing ministry in this region, first time going to India, Hong Kong, and China, first time staffing a DTS, and first time leading a time on outreach alone.  It was an interesting experience with many things that I didn't expect and many obstacles along the way but none that could not be overcome.


One last story I want to share about this outreach is on my time in Northern India at Mcleod Ganj.  Some of the things we did were two 24 hour prayer times, a 3 day evangelistic campaign, coming along to English classes and a basketball ministry.  On the last day of our evangelistic campaign we were talking with a Tibetan man who lived in the area.  He had a copy of the book of Luke and Psalms, I believe, and he would read through it constantly.  He had many questions about Jesus and who he was.  Being a Tibetan, his culture is full of Buddhist rituals.  To be Tibetan means that you are Buddhist so the fact that he had questions was an avenue of Hope for us.  During one of the conversations, he said that he wanted to be a Christian but he had to know Jesus first, 100% without a doubt.  One of the members of my team replied back saying that we don't know Jesus 100% either, its a relationship and we keep learning more about who He is.  I think that this took our Tibetan friend by surprise because he went away thinking even more about this.  The next day he was happy to announce to us that he wanted to accept Jesus into his heart and he did.

This was probably the highlight of my outreach and it was worth it to see even just one soul come to the Lord.