PSALMS 23
Two
weeks ago I was with my team in Nepal. I really heard God calling my team to do
ministry in Nepal. We started our ministry by doing lots of pray walk in my
village. Night’s cold but very hot during the day time. The place is very
beautiful and very quite.
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| Our ministry in my village. |
I again got to
visit my mom and my sister and the local church that hosted my team, last year.
The first 6 days was very slow but we did lots of prayers and worship.
Everything was very smooth and good but then suddenly we got caught up in doing
things for God and hardly had a time to sit and worship as a team. This went on
for three days and spiritually as a team we were far from God. On 19th
of March we decided to go on a picnic with the host family. When we got there
we ate our lunch and me and the guys went out to swim in a river. From far away
the river looked small but as we got a closer look, it wasn't small but rather
big. I knew I could swim so I took up the challenge along with my brother
(Muan). As we were about to swim one more joined us and we started to swim to
the other side.
As we got closer to the middle of the river, I
felt the river current and we were being pulled. I swam hard and before I
reached the bank of the river I heard my name being called and as I turned
back, I saw my team mate drowning. I couldn’t go back, because of the strong
current. I also searched for my brother and he was floating and for a second I
thought that he too drowned and so I began calling MUAN!!!!! MUAN! The third
call, he woke and reached the other side. I grabbed the nearest boat and as we
got closer to the person being drowned we lost sight of him.
Muan jumped into the river and I knew that the
other guy was drowned. I was shocked in that moment and I cried out to God and
it was very hard to believe that my team mate just drowned. We came for
ministry and the next moment one of the team members has passed away. I got
hold of my emotions and tried my best searching for the body and we called the police
and the divers.
For four hours
we searched and searched for the body and we went back to the house. The next
day again we went and searched the whole day and it continued for three days.
The team was troubled in many ways such like, lack of sleep, bad dreams,
emotionally break down, and numb to everything, shocked, anger.
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| the church and the local police in search for the body |
We were not alone; people around us were
willing to help us. The church joined us and the YWAM members from Nepal helped
us a lot. Even our main school leader flew to Nepal and took care of the team
and the family who lost their son. After the third day we found the body and we
took it to North east India where we could be buried at his home town. I
believe that God was with us through the whole process of getting the body to
burring it.
It is said out of 10; only 3 are found in the
river. I am great full to God for saving my life and being with me even though
I questioned him a lot. A lot has happened and we are back at the base, being
processed by the base leaders. As a team we want to continue the ministry soon
as possible. Thank you for everyone who has been supporting me and the team
through your prayers. Some of the team members are still having a hard time in
getting focused and coming to the present.
Pray that we would be in same spirit and one goal.
Pray for the team unity and joy during our team time.
Pray for us to listen to God and be sensitive to him.
Thank you
