ABANDONED TO JESUS | Encouragement and Funny Story

In my job I get blessed with the greatest stories. Some sad, others encouraging, then some are just plain funny. Last month was the Holy Month of Ramadan for the 1.7 billion Muslims in the world. They fasted from sun up to sun down for 30 days. Many Christians around the world prayed that God would reveal Himself to Muslims. The first story is about an answer to those prayers. The second story is from one from one of our missionaries working in South East Asia.

Middle East News Update - Recently, several local believers were approached by a bearded Mus. and several armed guards after a ch. service. The believers were told they must go with these men to an unknown place. They resisted and said “no, you can’t just make us go with you,” but there was nothing that they could really do, seeing that the guards were armed. The believers were blindfolded and put into a van and driven away. When the van stopped, the believers were led into a mosque where a circle of 30 sheiks (mus.leaders) sat waiting for them. One of the believers later shared that he was thinking, “Ok Lord, this is it, I have lived my life for you, I am ready to meet you.” Soon one of the Mus. leaders spoke and said something like, “We know you must be scared as to why you are here. But we need you to help us. All 30 us sitting here have had a dream of J, and we want you to explain Him to us!!!” They sat for 5 hours in that mosque and shared the good news with them. This is one of many stories of the increase in awakening of hearts that God is doing at this time. We have not experienced anything like this personally yet, the road is still hard and there are millions still to be reached. But God is on the move!

SE Asia News Update – “I was watching the news a couple of weeks ago and up in X City there is a bakery. It’s bread and cakes must have had a really strong aroma and the people who lived around it got mad and sued them for polluting the air with the aroma of their breads…and they won. The bakery was fined and told to find a way to not smell so strong. I watch this and thought, “I don’t get it”. This is the land of open sewers, stinky tofu, durian fruit, temples burning incense and spirit money, pig farms and I could go on and on…but they complained about the smell of a bakery. I guess you know you’re still a foreigner when you prefer the smell of baking bread to stinky tofu”.

RESCUING THE UNREACHED | The day of his gladness of heart… SGS 3:11

BFBC Class 12 graduates November 17th at 6:00 on campus here at Heart of God Ministries. You are invited to come see it.

Wedding preparations for my day of my gladness of heart is on November 10th at Eastland Hills Baptist Church, and you are invited to come as well. You can RSVP by emailing me or going to http://www.theknot.com/ourwedding/janicepreuninger&jasonweigand

COMMITTED FOR LIFE | Prayer and Action

Before college classes started up again I worked ahead two weeks as well as tried to meet with different individuals about joining our financial support team. I got to meet with a few families, but then school started and I was sick for two weeks. So much for being ahead. Since then I haven’t had the chance to continue my portion of support raising here at HGM. My budget goal I have is $2,000 a month and right now I am around $1,000 in monthly commitments still. Please pray for God to raise up those who are supposed to support me in this endeavor.

Prayer

1) That I would experience Jesus’ nearness and immediate, continual presence (Col 1:9-14) & that I would look more like Jesus this year then I did last year. A way to do this is to be praying for me to have a greater amount of integrity. I would like to say I am the same person when no one is around, apart from learning more about this through God’s grace my heart seems so far away from this reality.

2) Wedding Planning would go smooth and those who are lost would come to know Jesus.

3) Pray for my witness in my classes as well as my efforts to get good grades.

4) For 100% full Financial Support, through new supporters, increased giving.