Last week, we had a ywamer who is in full-time ministry in Kyrgyzstan. He was a great story teller, and brought the truth without sugar-coating it. It was great! Well, he was telling us about a group of Kyrgyz people who live in this remote corner of Afghanistan. It takes 5 days by car, and 4-5 days of hiking just to reach these people. It's an incredibly remote place, super high up in the mountains. A few years ago, Jeff and a couple other ywamers made the trek to try to find these people. When they got there, the people had never before seen a white person, and had never heard the name of Jesus. Jeff has made a couple trips now, and is planning to take another trip this coming year with his team of Kyrgyz staff. The trip will cost about $1000 per person, which is about a year's worth of wages for a Kyrgyz person.
Jeff shared at our Thursday night community gathering and the leaders asked how we could pray for Jeff & his team, and wanted to take a donation for them. There are 10 of them planning to go, so they need $10,000 to be able to go and minister to these people. A typical Thursday night offering is somewhere in the neighborhood of $4000-6000. At the end of the service, they made an announcement and the offering collected was $10,000.07!! God miraculously provided the money needed so now Jeff and his team can go into this remote part of Afghanistan, taking Jesus with them to these people.
Go God!
Jeff in our class one day
Our class praying for Jeff
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