“Let’s Infest this City with Lighthouses!”
A mega-city. 1.5% percent Hui. And the Hui are definitely unreached … hardly any known believers. It’s a spiritually dark place.
One family is enough to reach all these people, right?
Engage the Hui: What You Can Really Do!
If you live in America and want to be more actively, physically involved in work overseas, you might wonder how much you can really do when you’re continents away from the Hui.
My family’s life here is a living, breathing, walking, talking testimony to what you can REALLY do and how it REALLY makes a difference in how we serve in our community.
Engage the Hui: Starting with Prayer
We are absolutely dependent on God to accomplish His mission among the Hui. Without the power of the Holy Spirit, there is no need for us to live among the Hui or spend time traveling among them on a short-term trip. Our money, time, influence, skills and charisma do not turn Hui people to Jesus; it only happens through the work of the Holy Spirit.
Go and Love
“We need people to go and love these people.” Those were the words that got me to China after a long time of saying no. I had been asked repeatedly by a friend to come to China to share Jesus. My reasons for not going were valid in my mind…I don’t speak the language, I can’t stand Chinese food and how could God use me anyway? Sitting in a room watching the faces of the Hui appear and disappear in a power point presentation changed my life. No one said, “Come save them.” No one said, “Come learn the language and love everything about their culture (including the food).” They simply said, “We need people to go love these people.” That was easy…because Jesus loves them therefore I do too. So I said yes.
He Brings the Rain – Short-term Teams Bring Encouragement
My home among the Hui is on the edge of the Gobi Desert, the largest desert in Asia with an area of 500,000 square meters. The weather is dry, and it rarely rains or snows. I come from a place in America that has a very similar climate so it was not a hard adjustment adapting to the physical environment. However most recently I lived in the Pacific Northwest where rain is much more common. Sometimes my spirit seems to match the environment in its dryness, and I long for rain to quench my thirst spiritually.
Prayer – Opening Doors for the Gospel
When my family and I moved to East Asia, one of the biggest prayers that we prayed was to ask God to give us a family that we could share life with and that we would be able to share the gospel deeply in this relationship. In the past six months we have seen God open this door and we have been able to declare Jesus to this family. I first met this family eating at a local restaurant.