Discipling Sabbisua

About a year ago we were getting ready to start the Salem Oaks team, and we were specifically praying for some adults or young adults that would own the vision to make disciples and reach the nations. As you know, God answered that prayer by bringing us Kho, Sanjay and Hafsa, 3 international teens. Each one of them, today, is still faithfully a part of the team and making disciples.

But 6 months ago we really started praying for more faithful adults, and I believe now we’re really starting to see the fruit of those prayers. A couple adults we had been discipling, Man and Emanuel, have become uninterested and unfaithful concerning the mission, but we continue to see new opportunities each week. One of those opportunities is the couple we mentioned weeks ago, Mani and Dahn, which is a deaf family that has been pulling away from the Mormon teachings in order to follow Christ.

But we’re particularly excited for the work God is doing in a new Nepali friend of ours, Sabbisua. Chris McGathy is discipling Sabbisua’s dad, so I (Jacob) got connected with him through that relationship. Sabbisua is a 26-year-old with a wife and 2 kids. He called himself a Christian most of his life, but he didn’t understand what that meant at all. So when I shared the gospel with him and explained that following Christ means you have the Holy Spirit within you, he eagerly accepted.

Since going through repentance with him, he seems like a totally different person. He used to go drinking with his friends each week, was lazy most of the time, and was pretty short-tempered, but in the past month he has not been drinking at all, has been purposeful with his time as has been a man of peace. Every time I talk with him, he’s excited about the new person God has made him to be. He says even the people at his church view him as a totally different person.

Please be praying for him in the coming weeks. As I’ve shared the vision with him the past couple weeks God has placed burden on his heart to find a disciple, or at least someone that he can be investing in spiritually. Please pray that God would surround him with godly influences, draw Sabbisua into an intimate relationship with Himself, and would open doors for ministry all around him.