I would like to say thanks to everyone for your prayers while I was in India. There is no substitute for prayer and it was very comforting knowing there were so many people interceding for us.
My friend Mark Mayberry and I traveled to Lungphu, India, which is about two hours by jeep up into the mountains from Imphal. It is within sight of the border of Burma (Myanmar). Our mission was to teach the 2nd of 3 modules of the Mobile Bible School. MBS is a Bible teaching ministry started a few years ago by Travis Hunt and a few others from Camas Valley Christian Fellowship and Roseburg Christian Fellowship. Together he and a number of people from several other churches in Douglas County put together a basic Bible teaching curriculum designed to train and equip disciples in foreign countries. They specifically go to areas of the world that have never been reached with the gospel, northern Burma being one of those areas. One of their contacts in India is from this small village and has people they know across the border in Burma. So they chose this village (Lungphu) as a safe place to bring people across the border and teach since they are new believers and have little training but are on fire for the Lord. We spent two weeks teaching the Old Testament survey, proving the Bible, and teaching basics in biblical counseling to about 30 people. The classes were a success and everything went very smoothly. The village was like stepping back in time 100 years. They have no running water; they carry it from a community spring. Electricity has only been there for a few years and it is only switched on from their power company for a couple hours twice a day. Once in the morning around 6:00 a.m. and again in the evening at about 10 or 11 p.m. and this is not very consistent. There has only been a road into the village for about a year and only two or three families have a vehicle. Most people only have what they need to survive. There aren’t many luxuries but people are happy with what they have. We take way too much for granted. I was truly blessed and humbled by the people that we met.
As always I encourage anyone who has never been on a mission trip to go if you can. As Jesus said, we are to make disciples of all the nations! Thanks again so much for all the prayers. We will be praying for the safety and boldness of those who will be taking the gospel to the lost in northern Burma and India.
