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Fruit from the DNA Forum in Hong Kong
I thought you would enjoy hearing what one of our Forum participants included in their recent newsletter:As I mentioned (complained about) in my previous newsletter, I left a recent conference in Hong Kong with a honey-do list that might as well have included items such as bring about world peace. After much praying, fasting, discussion, garnering opinions, we have finally wrestled down a focused list. Here is one on the top:
A City-Based Program
A passion of mine is to see God's name glorified. It breaks my heart that so often the Christians are the poorest and looked down on by others. Christian workers are known for being less diligent than Non Christians to the point that many Christian businessmen will not employ Christians. In many cases God's name is not being glorified in this nation. Over the past four years we have been blessed to see a real turnaround on this in the rural areas. As one person shared recently:
Before we were the poorest village. But now we are the richest. As the poorest village it was hard for us to reach the other villages, they looked down on us. But now they can see that our God can do more for us than the government can do for them. Now they are open to us coming to their villagers to help and share about Christ.
While that is exciting, it is happening in the most isolated pockets and still out of the view of most of the people. Our hearts are now becoming increasingly burdened by the fact that God's name is not glorified throughout this nation. While the ethnic minority people and the local governments in those rural areas might be seeing God for the great God that he is, in most of the country God is seen as somewhat strange, irrelevant, unknown or even to be despised.
While we recognize our limitations, our passion to see God's name glorified has inspired us to start a city-based program. Exactly what that will look like is hard to say. The churches in the city are overwhelmed with training so I "aren't" sure that training is the best solution. We are currently praying that God will open the right doors and lead us in the right direction. At the moment we are translating books and putting together some new materials. We would welcome your prayers as we look for answers.
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