Team Expansion: Asia

What Can Change in Taiwan?

What Can Change Taiwan? by Jon Ralls
The other night I went up to a place that the missinaries call "Budda Mountain" with Chad, Scott, and a visiting friend of Chad's named Mitch. We all drove our scooters up this mountain that overlooks Taipei. The view is amazing and you get a real glimpse of how large Taipei is.

While overlooking the city the story of when Jesus cried over Jerusalem came to my mind. On the top of this mountain is a buddist temple that at midnight was still very full with people. This particular temple is home to the land god. People burnt their god-money, burned incense, rub the idol, and prayed. To pray to this god is to ask for more possessions, money, and land.

The question was asked while we were up there..."how can we win Taiwan?" While there are many great methods that we are using and ideas that each of us have, to me the ultimate answer is prayer. It seems so simple yet the more I study about it, and practice it, the more I get glimpses of just how powerful prayer is.

I know that we are God's tools and there is work that He has us to do, but what if the real answer was not in what we do, but instead what He has already done. God wants the people of Taiwan to be saved more than I do. He sent His son to die for them, I just moved to a different country that has many of the same comforts as America. God knows how to see Taiwan come to name Him as their God, I need to be in constant touch with Him so that I can see His ways and His plan.

Back in the States an answer like prayer gets looks like "Well yeah but what are YOU going to do...you can't just pray" This response seems shallow and void of an understanding of just how powerful prayer can be. South Korea is an Asian country and yet Christianity has flourished there. The pastor of the largest Christian church in Seoul Korea said that we don't have because we don't pray enough. Sounds kind of like James 4:2

If I can be a person of prayer, and I can teach my children to be people of prayer...well that is life that has been well spent I think.

Pray for those in Asia who worship idols

During a recent visit to Taiwan, we saw tons of idol worship there. Please pray that God will enable His workers to speak His truth with boldness.

Pray for Asia

Please join me in asking God to raise up new workers for Asia. In particular, please pray today for new teammates in Thailand. We have two new families headed there and we need team members to expand the Lord's Kingdom for His glory.

Thanks for your prayers!

Bob Gibson
Asia Field Coordinator

Here to Serve...

Meet Bob Gibson, Team Expansion Field Coordinator for Asia. He's here to serve you and all our Asian workers. Write him at this address:
asia at TeamExpansion.org
(be sure to use the "@" sign in place of the word "at"... and take out the spaces; this helps keep the spam down! Thanks for understanding). Got a question about one of Team Expansion's Asian fields? Ask away!

Starting today, Bob will be overseeing this portion of our website. 'Have at it', Bob! Welcome to our web!

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