Every Tribe, Tongue, and Nation

In the book of Revelation, God reveals to us a glimpse of the future: people from every tribe, tongue, and nation will worship Him together before the throne, singing and praising the one who took away their sin.  Here at our training, we have been able to experience a little taste of that future promise.  Every Sunday night, we worship God in the style of a different region of the world in many different languages.  Our first week, we praised God in Spanish like you would find in South and Central America.  It was really fun.  The second and third weeks, we honored the God who is drawing Southeast Asians and Southern Africans to Himself.  A really fun thing was dressing up for the African worship service:

 



Please pray for us this Sunday as we celebrate what God is doing in Europe, because Cameron will be reading a passage of Scripture in Romanian and Jessica will be singing a Romanian song.

After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.  And they cried out in a loud voice:

“Salvation belongs to our God,
who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb.”

 - Revelation 7:9-10

On the Frontlines

Hi everyone!  We wanted to share with you how we are doing and what we are learning at our training.  Our days are filled with lots of sessions that deal with both spiritual health topics (cultivating a deep thirst for God, maintaining a consistent time in God’s Word, etc.) and practical company issues (setting up email accounts, healthy living practices overseas, etc.) One topic that is highly significant for both us and our prayer supporters (you guys) is the stark reality of Spiritual Warfare. When we go out as ambassadors for Jesus Christ, we must boldly proclaim the gospel in ways that are true to Scripture and culturally-appropriate. Here is a short video we made about this topic:

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places…To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel.

 - Ephesians 6:12, 18-19