Gateway Update and Prayer Request
April 24, 2009
Praise the King for the open doors and open hearts this past trip! Thank you for participating with your prayers and support!
This is what happened:
Zacchaeus Medical Project in Twin Mountain Province:
Over 5 months ago two girls with a disease that looked like leprosy were brought to our attention. These girls just happen to live in the far Eastern region of the country in a remote mountain village off of the main road. The people in this village are 10 miles away from the main road then about another 50 miles from any type of medical care. Unfortunately, the only place that can treat their disease is in Istanbul which is over 1,200 miles away. I met with our medical projects leader Dr. Müjdeci concerning the girls and he had other experts examine the photos of the girls. He said however, that without going there in person, he could not diagnose them. Also those in the village do not leave the village and for the girls to have any treatment we would need to go there, build trust with the girls and family and persuade them to go to Istanbul for treatments.
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According to the King’s perfect time we headed out to the village. Loaded up with food donations for the poor we would visit, “E.” of Beytel East in Sodom city with “K.”, Dr. Müjdeci, another brother “B.” and G.E.S. board member Ken along with “J.” left from Sodom to go to Twin Mountain. With no little trouble from the authorities (We were stopped at least 4 or 5 times and searched.) we made it to our destination, the village on the mountain that we call “Born-again”.
From a spiritual perspective those in the village have never met a follower of the King or have heard the truth concerning the King. A truly unreached Kurdish village.
Dr. Müjdeci immediately examined the girls and we spent a few hours getting to know the family and those of the village. We were able to share about who the King is and why we follow Him with the whole family this first visit! We could have shared more but the authorities were alerted to our presence out in the village and sent some folks to “check-up” on us. After that ordeal one man in particular named Joseph wanted Dr. Müjedeci to visit the other sick in the village so late in to the night we went from home to home and the good doctor examined many. Joseph also was quite inquisitive and J. was able to share his testimony and E. was able to share much with this man. Joseph begged us to stay in the village that night and visit more!
Prayer Requests:
1. The two girls need to be flown into Istanbul and taken to a special hospital for treatment. While they are in Istanbul we plan to continue to show them and their family the love of the King by treating their physical and spiritual needs.
2. Pray for the sick that we visited, particularly that they would be healed both physically and spiritually. (One woman in particular is a widow with six children, her husband was shot in a blood feud).
3. Pray that the whole village of “Born-again” would come to know the King and that the King would have mercy there.
4. Pray for Joseph and those whom we shared with that the seeds would grow in the hearts and that they would respond to the Truth.
Next Zacchaeus Medical trip to the Twin Mountain Province:
Our next trip to the village will be in May, this time Dr. Müjdeci said we must visit all 120 homes in the village and bring much medicine with us! We need prayer and finances for this trip!
Omar Confesses the King in the Twin Mountain Province!:
After leaving the village late at night J. received a phone call from another man (Omar) that they visited previously on their last trip to the East. Omar said that he wanted to meet with them and that he had put the tea on! We “just happened” to be driving by his place and again the King’s timing is perfect! Omar was waiting for us and as soon as we sat down the conversation for the first hour was about the only way to have peace is in the King, finally after much time and learning his story we found that he has had an intense love for Christ and had been reading about Him for years! That night in our presence Omar confessed that Jesus is Lord and Savior! We then decided to have a “church service” with him so until midnight we shared scripture, praised the King, prayed and rejoiced with this brother!
Pray for Omar as he is the only believer in his area and he needs much encouragement. Pray that he would be protected and grow in his faith.
Much more did take place on the trip, I feel like John who wrote in John 21:25, “Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.”
There is so much that are King does on these trips, I cannot scarcely write them all; it would take up all of the volumes that could be written!
Thank you for being a part of all these ministries, without your logistics from home we here in the battle-lines could not do what we do!
J. of G.E.S.
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