The Ripple Effect!
Our team received a thank you note from an international student who came to our Bible discussion for the first time recently (NOTE: not the friend in this photo). She told us how fortunate she feels to have made friends with our ministry team and to have gotten to join in our "community of friends." She said the Bible discussion she had attended (her first one ever?!) had inspired her a lot - so much so that she shared about her experience with a friend in her home country who is a faithful Christian! Her friend was moved by her story, and this inspired the friend to renew the spiritual passion in her life!
This is what we would like our ministry to be all about! We would like to see the blessings and joy we have received in Jesus get passed on to those with whom we minister. Then, after internationals are touched by the Spirit, we hope and pray that they also are faithful to pass along those blessings of salvation and eternal life to many others in their home cultures, not to mention those they impact cross-culturally. In this way, blessing may overflow exponentially, bringing hope to the hopeless, love to the unloved, and joy to those in darkness and gloom.