Vision Casting

Sunday, June 19th Lacey met with 4 African women and shared God's heart for the lost with them. She shared from 2 Kings 7:3-11 with them, how the lepers knew it wasn't right to keep the good news from those who were in famine still. She challenged them think about who Jesus is, what he came for, and what their purpose and role is in life/in the kingdom. Discussion went well and one or two of the ladies really understood the deeper meaning of the story. She hopes to get the women together again and challenge them to share the Gospel with a co-worker or someone they know who doesn't know Jesus.

Please pray for a desire in them to know Christ intimately.
Pray for their hearts and minds to grasp the immensity of God's heart for the lost and for the nations.
Pray that their love for God and burden for the lost would compel them to share.
Pray they would lead their children in this as well and their entire househould would seek the Kingdom of God.

Hyder's Hope

Team members Xavier and Jerome have recently been working with Hyder, an Iraqi man who got saved nine months ago while living in Jordan. He has now been in the states for 4 months, and besides his youngest son, Sajiid, who recently accepted Jesus, the rest of his family (his wife and 5 other children) remain Muslim. Our team has specifically been praying to reach heads of house, as well as Muslim families!

Here are some specific ways that you can join us in praying:
1. wisdom on next steps with these men
2. Opportunities to work with the entire family, leading them all to Christ
3. For Hyder and Sajjid to be empowered
4. Hyder to have opportunities to minister to his Muslim friends at work (he's a mechanic)
5. A new job opportunity for Sajjid, as he is currently working at a night club

Multiplying Nepali Disciples

Almost 2 months ago I (Jacob) had the privilege to start discipling Santa, a Nepali man (about 23 years old) who grew up in a Hindu family. Up until about 8 months ago he spent most of his time hanging out with his friends, drinking and partying. But God placed a few Christian friends in his life who convinced him to join a Nepali church in the area. The Spirit changed Santa’s heart pretty radically, and within a few weeks he had given his life to Christ and stopped drinking, smoking, partying and hanging out with his old friends.

Even without anyone telling him to do so, he had a desire a be in God’s Word daily and started reading through the New Testament. He also led his Hindu mother to Christ (though his dad has yet to renounce his Hindu beliefs). About 2 months ago, then – by God’s leading, no doubt – Santa randomly came across Sabisua (my disciple since December). Sabisua told him how God had similarly transformed his life after becoming my disciple, and he encouraged Santa to get connected with me.

So I met him and began discipling him. At this point he’s finished the New Testament and is up through Exodus in the Old Testament. Santa was praying daily for a disciple for at least a month, and I finally had a chance to join him in visiting one of his friends a few weeks ago, a Nepali man, Buddhi Man. That night, after we shared with him God’s heart for the nations, Buddhi Man excitedly declared he will be a disciple and help us finish God’s work! Santa has been discipling him since.

That said, we now have 4 faithful adult men in Los Arcos: my main disciples are Sabisua and Santa – Sabisua is discipling Kharka and Santa is discipling Buddhi Man.

I believe these men are the result of much prayer, both from our team and from prayer warriors such as yourselves, as well as from those that have come before us. Please continue to lift up these men, as well as the Los Arcos Nepali community in general.

Please pray Santa would effectively disciple Buddhi Man, and that Buddhi Man would grow to be faithful and hungry for the presence of God. And please pray that these 4 men would continue to multiply in the coming weeks, especially reaching into the Hindu population of the Nepali people. Thanks guys!

New Team Members Move In

On Saturday, Jerome and Jenny moved in to their new apartment in Sunblossom Mountain. Our team gathered together and prayed over their entire apartment. This is a huge answer to prayer, as now they are on site! Please be praying for this new transition for their family; they are expecting their first child in just 7 more weeks. We are so excited for Jerome and Jenny to be here because they're huge assets to our team. Also, we were told by a team member who works in the office at the apartment complex that prior to Jerome and Jenny moving in, their apartment was used as a brothel. We've renounced and prayed against any of these spirits that may be attached to this home. Join us in praying spiritual warfare prayer for the family and their home.

Picture: some of the local boys/ disciples praying over the porch.

Commissioning the Rejoice Team

Thanks for all the prayers last week! Our time with the Rejoice team went really well. Our focus throughout the week was to give them a greater dependence on the voice, power and leading of the Holy Spirit. And that’s exactly what many of them said they will change as they go back home.

It was great to watch the Spirit work on their hearts each day and confirm the things we were teaching. One of the ladies had a dream one of the nights about a camera, and the next day they met and ministered to a person who shared a random story about her camera. They believed God was confirming this was a person that we should continue following up with.

Another from the team was convicted by a day of training which focused heavily on the leading of the Spirit. He had never experienced the voice of God before, but he wanted to become more obedient in that way. That evening as we prayed and listened with him, he felt the Spirit speak to him ‘Galatians 5:25’. He hadn’t read Galatians before, but he turned there and read the verse, “Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.” He was encouraged that God was confirming what he’d already been learning.

In addition to several other testimonies like these, we got to pray with a couple of the boys on the Rejoice team who had never officially accepted Christ into their lives. They had always just assumed that they were saved because they were involved with the church, but it had never evolved into a personal relationship with Christ.

Here’s Tim’s (the Rejoice team leader’s) response after the week. This was his 2^nd year here.

“Had a phenomenal week in Houston with our Jr Highers! We were able to experience salvations, international ministry, the Holy Spirit in new ways, and so much more. Thank you to The Keystone Project Houston Team for being great hosts and investing into us! I pray that we are able to apply what we learned and experienced back here in Owasso. To God be the glory!”

Rejoice Team

Today a group of about 20 students and parents from Rejoice Church in Oklahoma will be arriving! This is their second year joining our team for a one week mission trip. Various members of our team will be teaching and training this group on how to share their testimony and how to reach the lost. The group will be staying in the different team members' homes and will have a lot of opportunities to practice what they're learning. Please pray for the following:
1. That our team and their team will be spirit led
2. For a focus and depth with limited distractions, as our team has had 3 extended family members pass away this week
3. For spiritual fruit
4. For the students to leave feeling both challenged and empowered