Last week in Maz

This week we had a speaker come in from a closed country to teach on the school (for his security I will not use his name or the name of the country he is working in.) This was the first time I have ever met him, but he is an old friend of many people on the base. He taught our school on evangelism and foreign missions. One of the main points that he made was that evangelism isn't just going out to the streets to tell people they need Jesus, but that a big part of evangelism is your lifestyle. He talked about how in the country he works in that the Lord told him that one of his strategies would be to keep his house clean and to show hospitality. He told a story about one of his friends who worked in the same country and about the first person he was able to lead to Christ. When he asked the person why he came to Christ he said that one of the main reasons was because he could see the difference in his life based on the way he kept his house and the way he showed hospitality.
During all of the teaching you could see his passion for the people group he was working in. In everything he did and said you could see that his heart longed for that people group to come to know the Lord. I pray that the Lord will help my heart to be as much for the Mexican people as his was for that people group.

This week we also did a lot of getting ready for Outreach. We saw God work in some amazing ways as the Haiti team got in all their money for their Outreach. It came down to the last day, just hours before the absolute last moment they could turn in money. If they didn't have their money they wouldn't be able to go, and the outstanding amount was thousands of dollars, but an anonymous donor paid for two girls to be able to go on Outreach just in the nick of time. It was amazing to see how God worked in every situation. God has been faithful to us up to this point and I know that He is going to continue to show His faithfulness in even more, bigger ways as we go on to plant this base!