Come hear about something amazing that God is starting amongst the unreached in South Asia using people from Austin and how you can get involved. **Story below.**
When: Tuesday Nov. 30 @ 7:30
Where: Austin Stone St. John Campus
Who Should Come? Anyone who wants to help make a difference in one of most unreached nations in the world.
What do you do about a nation where the majority of the people have never heard of Jesus? A nation that is one of the last remaining Buddhist strongholds on earth? A nation whose doors are closed? What do you do when Jesus tells you to go there with less than two months notice?
Jon, Meghan, Ashwin, and Lauren said “YES” to the call last year and traveled to India to get as close as possible to the border of this unreached nation (we can’t tell you the name of the nation for security reasons). They lacked earthly understanding of how they would reach the people. But they saw the things that were unseen, the promises of God, and they envisioned a people that were far from Jesus becoming his inheritance. So they moved forward in faith.
The closer they traveled toward the border of this nation, the less likely it seemed that they would have the opportunity to minister to the people. They found themselves immersed among the Nepali people who lived there in India. The believers welcomed the team wholeheartedly, adopted their vision as their own, and began to pray for them.
Upon returning to Austin, however, it almost seemed that their vision had failed. Nonetheless, the team continued believing in faith that the word the Holy Spirit spoke would come to pass. Soon they found out about a pastor in Austin who was a refugee from the Buddhist nation. They went to Brother John’s house to meet him, and a door opened! His heart was still beating for the nation he had left behind. Brother John couldn’t go back, but he could empower the team to go and take the gospel to his people.
Brother John and their contacts in India worked together to prepare a special place for a mighty move of the Holy Spirit. They reserved a Bible school in India that sits right on the border of the Buddhist nation. This January, the team will put on a training at this Bible school to equip students in church planting. Their Indian friends traveled into the nation and recruited 35 youth to cross over the border and come to the training. They believe God wants to do something greater than they could ever imagine. They believe they will see 35 youth trained to plant underground house churches, empowered by the Holy Spirit, and equipped with a fresh measure of the glory of God. They believe God will use these young pioneers to flip a nation upside down! Let this Buddhist kingdom become the kingdom of our God and his Christ!
The team this year is Jon, Meghan, Lauren, Caryn, Courtney, Cameron, and Michael. They submit to the Holy Spirit and give themselves fully to his purpose, each of them willing and ready to use their specific gifts for building up of the brothers and sisters on the other side of the world. They have come together hand in hand, committed to Christ’s cause, praying together with joy for what God will do, and excited that they get to experience this together as a family.
Please join us on Tuesday November 30th at 7:30 PM for an info-session about this nation and how you can be involved. Let us all join hands to take the Gospel to this unreached nation!
