this week...

we are having such an amazing week...we have the greatest speaker, heather you would love him! everyday he leaves me feeling like i want to give up everything and go full-time into missions forever....he has such an exciting life and he says he is on a mission to stamp out “boring” christians...ha ha...he has such a great personality and a great sense of humor....i think that’s why i like him so much☺
this guy has been everywhere and seen everything....he life is a living testimony of god’s word when he says he will do great miracles during our time but we won’t believe even when we are told....and his stories are quite extraordinary!! three days after getting radically saved in the 70’s he went to smuggle bibles into communist east berlin, where people were being shot at the border on a daily basis and ever since he has lived his life in that respect....constantly submitted to god’s will and being led all over the world to do his work...
he has given so many accounts but among them is one that really stands out to me....he was sent to azerbaijan just six months after the country had been freed from communistic rule and he was staying at a place with no running water so they would have to go to a well to get fresh water. he had just arrived with another pastor and they were filling up their buckets and the lord spoke to them and told them to speak in tongues to the azerbaijani man that was also filling up his bucket. well they thought that is really crazy but what the heck...so they proceeded to speak to the man and he began to speak back...this went on for about 15 minutes and then the man gestured for them to wait...he went and got his son who was fluent in english. our speaker and the other pastor were asked by the son how they had learned azerbaijani because he knew it was not spoken or taught at any school anywhere else in the world and the longest they could have been in the country was 6 months which is not long enough to become fluent....in response they replied that they had a really great teacher and then they asked the son what the father had told him that got him so excited...the son replied: you are hear to tell us about a living god and you want to serve in our country by bringing in agriculture support teams, medical teams, a university and you will have an office on our main street of town.....needless to say they were in shock and still are because all of those have become true in that city of azerbaijan...
we hear these accounts almost on a daily basis here and it truly is amazing when they come first hand from the person doing the work...they are life changing to so many! ...heather keep praying i think you were born to do missions....when i hear these people speak i always think of you....
{and i really hope you guys come!}