Merry Christmas to you! Yesterday, Dec. 24, was a heavy work day for us. Because we came home at around 12:30am, we were too tired to update the blog; and therefore I'm sending you updates now on Christmas Day. Lorraine took Joe, Victor and Betty to visit four families in the afternoon. Three out of the four families are store owners. The purpose of the visit was to let them know that the church cares for them even though they can't always attend church services regularly. After two visits, we stopped at a cafe to have coffee since Joe and Victor had never tasted Spainish coffee. Interestingly, when we were about done, a Chinese man came out from the back of the cafe. He asked if we were Chinese and we started chatting. We found out that he was the cafe owner. We had a really good chat with him and invited him to attend the Christmas service. The stop at the cafe was not planned. We just happened to walk by it and Betty suggested that we made the stop. God's plan is amazing and it's unimaginable to us!
Our last visit was with a lady who has stage 4 cancer. She's from Taiwan and has only started attending church for about 6 months. The four of us took turn witnessing to her; however, she was not yet ready to open her heart to accept Christ because of her past. She went back to Taiwan last year and made visits to a Buddhist temple. She believed that her health was better after making that visit and saying her chants. She felt that she owed it to the 'religion' and therefore was not ready to accept Jesus. Please pray for Ah Hua's salvation. We're fighting with time in her case because of her health condition.
After the four visits, we immediately headed to join Pastor Young, the girls and Jethro, who had already arrived at a single brother's home. We had dinner there and a short time of fellowship. Of course the topic of discussion was 'marriage.' Praise God that we were able to share not only our experience but also God's desire for man and woman in marriage. May God continue to work in these young people's hearts so that their marriages will be pleasing to Him!
We'll be heading to church in less than an hour here for the Christmas service. Will talk to you soon to let you know how it goes.
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