An INTERNATIONAL experience!

SRK in Manila! Awful movie. The message was terrible. 

Best compliment ever!  Re: our new volunteers.   Sarah and Stephanie are here and it’s been a fantastic witness – without saying a word – preaching without speaking!  Let me explain.  A PJ man, after telling him that more help from USA is here,  said: “ Relig leaders tell us, ‘give us money - donate to us,’ always  asking for $$ but you people,  on the other hand, are spending/giving away  your money  in this godly work, I don’t think I know any religion that does that  . . .but, I mean, umm , why?  don’t you get jealous of others having more money, and buying things , don’t you wish you had more, don’t you want more?”  We told him we are  the richest people in the world!  Then explained that we have what we need, no luxuries, just what we need, and in addition to that, we can serve God full-time, and then his wife finished my sentence off with, “what could be better than that?” Exactly!  These studies are just so touched by the need-greaters.  Here the studies are aching-dying to go to “The” USA, and here we are exchanging a life of “luxury” to living in a poorer less prominent country so from their point-of-view – this is puzzling.  And this puzzling is a great conversation starter.  Another PJ woman asked me what Hallelujah meant because her sikh relatives are attending church and when they pray to Jesus they always say hallelujah. By the end of the discussion, she had me write down the scriptures and the meaning of the word and was laughing because, “they worship Jesus and yet are saying ‘praise to Jah,’ and they don’t even know it. I will ask them about this.” This week is CO visit and our monthly PJ public talk/WT so that’s 3 extra meetings for us . . . following week is DC. 

Having lunch in Bethel.  Couple on my left are from PNG Bethel (Papua New Guinea) - We laughed alot with them as they told us  the story of how they met. They were single Bethelites.  Stephanie and Sarah are our new volunteers from USA. The PI sisters are in the PJ group. 

Dinner at Bethel.  See couple 2nd row on the right end.  They just graduated from the 133rd Class of Gilead in Patterson NY.  They shared stories and a slide show of their 2 months in Gilead. Wonderful spiritual evening. Points we gleaned: Make the Bible real. Learn the time frame of events in the bible;  teach others to be better than you;  you will accomplish far more in the kingdom work if you don't care who gets the credit;  the more you know, the more faith you need;  the hardest instrument to play in the orchestra is the 2nd fiddle.  Did Jephthah's daughter cross paths with little Samuel in Shiloh?  (need to research).  What period of time in Moses's life did he hear about Job's life?  Interesting stuff.