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Lovely JourneyJuly 2010 {9}

Sing PraisesI love my supporters.

Every single one of you, andIm very grateful to the Lordfor bring yall in my life!

Im watching Him answerprayers that I prayed andfasted for months ago, and itsabsolutely amazing!

So many lives in SouthAsia are being radicallychanged everyday with the loveof Christ, and youre a part ofthat!! Thank you!

Prayer requests Im working on a youth

group project with a fellow

coworker. Were tying to createa four-part video series withcurriculum to present to theyouth of America with thehopes of getting them involvedin national missions. Right nowwere in the draft stage andstill trying to gure out thenarration of the videothatsmy part. Its been sort ofdifcult trying to come up withcompelling things to say thatarent long and would keep

youths attention. Please praywith me that this project willcome together and be anointedby the Holy Spirit and turn outspectacular!

Im currently a supportcoach for an incoming Schoolof Discipleship student. I knowwhat youre thinking: What?!You?! A support coach?! Arethey sure about that? Yea, Ithought the same thing. But

I am, and Im pretty excitedabout it. It will only be for abouttwo months. So pray that I willdo well and be a blessing to thisstudent and that the Lord willgrant me wisdom.

MyKidneyStoneS dileMMaIn my last newsletter I mentioned in my Praise section that the Lord healed

me from kidney stones. Well, I spoke too soon. Heres the story:

In the wee hours of March 15 beginning at 2:15 a.m., I woke up with sudden

sharp pains on the left side of my lower abdomen. I wiggled and wormed in bed for

a few minutes praying for the pain to stop. Then I got nauseous. I called my doctor

daddy, of course, and complained to him about this unusual pain. He urged me to go

to the ER. After going back and forth, I obeyed and asked my wonderful roommate

to take me to CareNow, which is sort of like an ER but not. Well, that place wasclosed, so we ended up in the ER waiting room.

Four hours, lots of pain and a CAT scan later, the doctor told me I had two small

kidney stones. One was making its way down my tubes while the other was waiting

patiently in my kidney.

I was totally clueless about what was causing the pain. The one constant thought

in my head was, What in the world is going on?!

Well, Ive been told that passing kidney stones is much worse than childbirth.

And Ive also been told by experts in this area, whove suffered with severe bouts

of kidney stones, that mine must have been minor because sometimes the pain can

get so severe you end up with a morphine drip in your arm. And I thought my pain

was horribleI passed one stone. But the other one is apparently still hanging out with my

right kidney. I thought and believed the Lord for its vanishing, but an X-ray showed

otherwise. Good thing is that I havent had any pain whatsoever since that day at

the hospital, and Im making an effort to drink more water (which was probably the

cause of my kidney stones: Lack of water and too much calcium intake).

Im going to continue to believe the Lord for healing in this area. You can pray

with me on this one. ;)

one-yearanniverSarywith GFa!

June 9 marked my one-year anniversary serving at Gospel for Asia. Wow,did it go fast! There were highs and lows and more highs. Along with lots of

growing, learning, stretching and humbling experiences. There were even

some realizationsand facing up to those realizationsin just one year.

I cant imagine being anywhere else but here. And I love it! I wonder what

Hes got planned for year numero dos.

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Join the journey:Send checks to:

Gospel for Asia

1800 Golden Trail Court

Carrollton, TX 75010

(Acct. #6251)

www.gfa.org/hometeam

Contact me:Michelle Jimenez

mail: send to GFA addressed to me.

cell: 787.548.7861

work #: 972-300-3192

email: michellejimenez@gfa.org

blog: www.lovelyjourney.wordpress.com

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Bearing Their Scorn

Dulari stood rm in the Lord through prayer after herfamily turned on her for following Christ.

Dulari had no illness. She wasnt demon possessed. She witnessed no mira-

cle or deliverance. So what caused her to give up practicing other religions and

turn to the one true God

Dulari was born and brought up in the Muslim faith and performed all herreligious duties without fail. But when she married a man from a different reli-

gion, she began following after his gods and goddesses. As often as she went to

the temples to offer sacrices to the idols, she still had no peace in her life.

When Gospel for Asia-supported missionaries Sampat Sengupta and Yu-

dhisthir Banerjee came to visit and share the Gospel message with her, she

listened carefully to everything they said. By the time the missionaries were

nished, Dulari wanted to know more about this God who gave up His Son to

die for her sins. Sampat and Yudhisthir gave her some Gospel tracts to read

through and told her how she could choose to follow Jesus.

The missionaries came back to visit Dulari often and continued to teach

her more about Jesus. The more Dulari learned, the more she realized He was

her Savior, and she soon chose to follow Christ. But her family and neighbors

disapproved of her newfound faith.

Criticism and contempt became constant in her life. People mocked her. Her

in-laws abused her, and her husband threatened to leave her if she did not

deny Jesus Christ. Dularis entire life was turned upside down.

But she bore the pain and agony through prayer, and she stood rm in the

Lord. Dulari continued to attend worship services with the missionaries and

take part in the church activities.

Dulari asks for prayer for her family, that they will come to know the Lord

Jesus as their Savior and that her neighbors will experience the joy of salva-

tion in their lives.

Of all the ways God blessed the ministry of Gospel

for Asia in 2009, perhaps none had a greater impactthan the provision of Jesus Wells in needy villages and

desperate slim areas.

The dry season in South Asia can be brutally hot.

Clean drinking water is an absolute necessity for

survival, yet many poor tribal villages see their wells dry

up in the unrelenting heat.

Thankfully, over the past two years, GFA has been able

to drill more than 2,000 Jesus Wells across India and

neighboring countries. The results have been incredible.

After the horrendous 2008 attacks against Christians

in Orissa, India, at least 5,000 Christian homes weredestroyed and dozens of churches were ransacked or

burned out.

By late 2009, GFA teams had already rebuilt more

than 500 homes. Overcoming challenges that included

scarcity of materials in some areas, the joy seen in

the faces of those who moved in was well worth the

struggle to build them.

The goal for 2010 is to complete the remaining

homes, Dr. K.P. Yohannan said.

Ts s t L s dg; s mavlus in our eys.Here are a few snippets from some of the stories we featured in our 2009 Annual report. Let me know if

you didnt receive a copy of that publication, and Ill try and get one to you. Its amazing to see what the

Lord has done in a matter of one single year! Hes absolutely incredible and His glory cannot be contained!