Names and Faces

A few posts back we asked you to pray for our disciples as we call them to a deeper commitment to Christ and the vision.  Here are two names and faces of leaders who we have recently integrated into the team.

Pics:

1. Susana eating with children who frequently visit her home.

2. Kho Meh with her discipler, Katie, at a retreat

Susana is a 23 year old Karen young woman, who also speaks English and Burmese. Catherine has been discipling Susana for the past seven months and describes God's work in and through Susana in this way:

"Susana has recently joined the team and is rising up in leadership.  She is working with several children, ages 5 to 13, and their families, sharing the gospel with them and discipling them.  Her main disciple is a Karenni woman in her mid-twenties named Me Wgeh, who has four daughters she is discipling.  Besides her own children, Me Wgeh is focusing on two young moms named Mi Mi and Ma E Boat.  Susana is also encouraging her friend Ma Naka Bo to make disciples."  

Prayer Points:

** For these young moms to follow Jesus and make disciples
** For the husbands of these women to come to know Jesus.
** For Susana to continue to grow in leadership and an understanding of the vision
** For the families of Susana's young disciples to all come to follow Jesus.
** For wisdom with some family issues of Susana's disciples and that the Spirit will move in their hearts.
** For Susana's family to continue to be understanding and supportive of her as she makes disciples and to catch the vision themselves

Kho Meh, 14 year old Karenni girl, has been discipled by Katie since coming to Christ at camp almost nine months ago. Here's Katie's account of God's faithfulness to set an example for the believers through young and willing lives:

"Since I started discipling Kho God has blown me away by his patience and faithfulness to show his power when I get out of the way and let him do his work in Kho's life. She's currently discipling two of her older sisters, her aunt, and a close friend, leading a group of her peers (with less and less direction from me), and helping me lead a group of adult Karenni women, all mothers and grandmothers of her friends who have either come to the Lord for the first time or been encouraged in their faith through the influence that God has allowed Kho to have in her community. As we have invited her into the team she has continued to grow in hunger for the Lord and in excited commitment to his vision."

Prayer Points:

** Growth in leadership, wisdom, and time management as Kho works with a lot of her friends and adults

** Continued building up of her foundation in Christ himself, that her diligence will flow out of sitting in his presence, that she may not be overwhelmed by the responsibilities he has given her but trust him to lead her and know him deeper in the process

** That the Spirit will continue to mature her and empower her in leadership (like the waterfall in the picture above), surrounding everything she does and bringing Glory to God through her life