Our Young Karenni Leader

Around the time that some of our team was moving to the Salem Oaks area (back in March), God was preparing and raising up Kho Meh, 15, who would eventually become a key disciple of ours. Katie originally met her while ministering to other Karenni girls in Los Arcos, and she quickly recognized the leadership potential that Kho has.

Kho Meh has since discipled several key people such as Salina (an Ethiopian girl), Purnima (a Nepali girl), as well as Kho's sisters. And Kho is the reason we got connected with Oo Reh in Nacogdoches. He's the guy we posted about months ago who helped to lead several other families to the Lord in that city.

In each of those instances, Katie was always there to coach and disciple Kho in order to be most effective. But since Katie recently moved to Portland, Kho has been surprisingly consistent and diligent largely on her own. She is leading a group for all the girl first generation disciples in Los Arcos as well as co-leading a group for all the first generation disciples in Los Arcos. She continues to be the main translator for the believers in Nacogdoches and plays an important role on the Keystone Team itself.

We're encouraged and blessed to get to be a part of everything God's doing here in Houston, but it's especially encouraging when we see fruit that lasts and flourishes. It's a reminder that the effect our team has here isn't just for a season but rather is lasting and permanent. And obviously Kho and other disciples like her are only the result of fervent, passionate prayer.

(1) Please continue to lift up Kho as one of her main disciples, Purnima, is actively looking for a disciple of her own. God's really changed Purnima's heart the past few months through discipleship and through camp recently. So since school has started up again, she's been praying for a Nigerian Muslim girl in school, Adijat, and is ministering to a Vietnamese classmate, who's interested to learn more about Christ. (In the 1st picture Kho is the girl in the blue shorts, and Purnima is wearing the yellow shirt.)
(2) Kho's also excited because Jacob went with her yesterday to share the gospel with her brother Seh Reh (2nd picute). He's recently showed interest in Christ, and after talking to him about the gospel he gladly prayed to follow Jesus! Please pray that he'd develop a deep relationship with Christ, especially since he lives a couple hours away and doesn't have anyone around him to help him through the process.