[Missions] This Week In East Timor: May 11, 2008
Dear Friends & Family,
Yesterday when I returned to Dili from Lospalos I went to the petrol station to put diesel in the truck. The price had increased by 5 cents per liter just in the three days that I was gone. It had already been getting more and more costly every few days. We now are paying $6.20 for a gallon of gas. Pretty hard on the budget; so guess I will try to use the motorbike more I don't really want to use the local bus to go to Lospalos but it may come to that if the prices keep going up! :-P If I have to do that I will probably spend the six hours on the bus hanging out the window vomiting from motion sickness and avoiding the smoke of all of the other passengers! I always enjoy going to Lospalos and spending time with pastors Samuel and Ully and the guys at the Youth Center there. While I was there I got some more information about Jose's miraculous healing that I told you about last week. Pastor Samuel told me that after he prayed for Jose, Jose went to bed and slept well for the first time in a long time. During the night Jose had a dream. He saw a man dressed in glowing white clothes come to him. The man reached down and put his hand inside of Jose's body and pulled out what ever it was that was causing Jose to be sick! The next morning when he got up he could stand up straight and went to the toilet and urinated normally for the first time in many weeks! Then he told his wife that God had healed him and he was going to go to work. What is very interesting to me is that Jose and his family live right next door to Abilio and the other young men who have been going to the Nazarene Youth Center every night for Bible study. It was because of the changed lives of these young that Jose was interested in asking Pastor Samuel to pray for him. Abilio is doing well at school and in fact the other boys too are being asked by teachers and students alike: "Why are you different than you used to be? What has happened to you?" These are great opportunities for them to share of the power of God in their lives. Abilio and the other boys that live with him have been having their own Bible Studies and Jose's two sons are now coming to join with them! About three weeks ago Abilio went home to his village. While he was there he found out that there was a young boy about age 14 who was sick. The boy had been sick for three years and it seemed nothing they did was helping him. Abilio asked if he could pray for the boy. After being giving permission Abilio prayed and then it was time for him to return to Lospalos. The next week one of Abilio's uncles came to Lospalos and told Abilio that the boy was completely well! He also invited Abilio to come to stay with him on his next school holiday. He said to Abilio, "I have heard that you are going over to 'Nazarene' to study the Bible. I want to to keep going. Don't stop. When my sons come to high school in Lospalos I want them to live with you and you are to take them to the Bible studies as well!" Lita is young lady who lives with Pastor Samuel and Ully. Her boy friend is a student at STTNI, our Nazarene Bible College in Indonesia. She only just became a Christian a few months ago. She has a radiant clear testimony. Some of the students at her school have been making fun of her because she has "changed her religion" but others are starting to ask lots of questions. Now she takes her Bible to school every day and if the teacher is late to class or simply does not come the students find Lita had ask her to read the Bible and explain what it means to them. We just returned from church and after church one of the couples who recently had a baby and are not yet married said that her father is sick. They are from a very strong radical Catholic family but the father who is now sick asked the couple to please ask the pastor from the Nazarene church to come and pray for him! I really feel that God wants to do a wonderful work here in East Timor. Please keep praying for us and the other team members as well as the young Christians here. Thanks so much for being partners in this work.
Warren Neal
Yesterday when I returned to Dili from Lospalos I went to the petrol station to put diesel in the truck. The price had increased by 5 cents per liter just in the three days that I was gone. It had already been getting more and more costly every few days. We now are paying $6.20 for a gallon of gas. Pretty hard on the budget; so guess I will try to use the motorbike more I don't really want to use the local bus to go to Lospalos but it may come to that if the prices keep going up! :-P If I have to do that I will probably spend the six hours on the bus hanging out the window vomiting from motion sickness and avoiding the smoke of all of the other passengers! I always enjoy going to Lospalos and spending time with pastors Samuel and Ully and the guys at the Youth Center there. While I was there I got some more information about Jose's miraculous healing that I told you about last week. Pastor Samuel told me that after he prayed for Jose, Jose went to bed and slept well for the first time in a long time. During the night Jose had a dream. He saw a man dressed in glowing white clothes come to him. The man reached down and put his hand inside of Jose's body and pulled out what ever it was that was causing Jose to be sick! The next morning when he got up he could stand up straight and went to the toilet and urinated normally for the first time in many weeks! Then he told his wife that God had healed him and he was going to go to work. What is very interesting to me is that Jose and his family live right next door to Abilio and the other young men who have been going to the Nazarene Youth Center every night for Bible study. It was because of the changed lives of these young that Jose was interested in asking Pastor Samuel to pray for him. Abilio is doing well at school and in fact the other boys too are being asked by teachers and students alike: "Why are you different than you used to be? What has happened to you?" These are great opportunities for them to share of the power of God in their lives. Abilio and the other boys that live with him have been having their own Bible Studies and Jose's two sons are now coming to join with them! About three weeks ago Abilio went home to his village. While he was there he found out that there was a young boy about age 14 who was sick. The boy had been sick for three years and it seemed nothing they did was helping him. Abilio asked if he could pray for the boy. After being giving permission Abilio prayed and then it was time for him to return to Lospalos. The next week one of Abilio's uncles came to Lospalos and told Abilio that the boy was completely well! He also invited Abilio to come to stay with him on his next school holiday. He said to Abilio, "I have heard that you are going over to 'Nazarene' to study the Bible. I want to to keep going. Don't stop. When my sons come to high school in Lospalos I want them to live with you and you are to take them to the Bible studies as well!" Lita is young lady who lives with Pastor Samuel and Ully. Her boy friend is a student at STTNI, our Nazarene Bible College in Indonesia. She only just became a Christian a few months ago. She has a radiant clear testimony. Some of the students at her school have been making fun of her because she has "changed her religion" but others are starting to ask lots of questions. Now she takes her Bible to school every day and if the teacher is late to class or simply does not come the students find Lita had ask her to read the Bible and explain what it means to them. We just returned from church and after church one of the couples who recently had a baby and are not yet married said that her father is sick. They are from a very strong radical Catholic family but the father who is now sick asked the couple to please ask the pastor from the Nazarene church to come and pray for him! I really feel that God wants to do a wonderful work here in East Timor. Please keep praying for us and the other team members as well as the young Christians here. Thanks so much for being partners in this work.
Warren Neal
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